I don't consider myself to be a bad speller, but... some words are a pig and I can never remember which one means what.
Worsed one for me is...
affect/effect
I think affect is something that can happen and effect is how good it is, but still get confused and could be wrong now.
Are there any words that you get mixed up and annoy the pants off you?
Yes venus -- I had to look it up to remind myself -- probably easier if you put it into a context such as:
The cold wind affected the crops and the effect was to kill off all the corn
My personal thing is to sometimes mis-read things written on van, hoardings etc as I drive along - for instance I always misread "Shopfitters" as "Shoplifters"
( And women, of course -- I almost always misread them !!!)
always, always get caught out with invincible/invisible! stupid but I do!
Koo xx
Not really the same thing, but my dad cant say Hamilton Academicals! Used to have us in stitches....
...you had to be there
My cousin used to tell the story of the 3 billy goats gruff and the trowel, used to have us in stiches as well.
My biggest problem is speed typing. I type fast, I also correct my bad typing fast. LOL. I end up typing twice as many letters as I use - including the ones I go back and delete.
It's not that I can't spell - my Mother saw to that. But I can't type straight - left and right hands get confused.
I often spell 'the' either 'eth' or 'teh'.
The most annoying one is definition. It's a word I have to type many times in a day and can I buggery type it right!!!!! I refuse to make it an auto-correct, cos I'm trying to get it right - but it isn't working. pmsl.
You replied to my letter then Cherry darling !! was that "Yes" instead of "No" then lol
when my eldest (now15) was young he couldnt say eyelashes....he always said lasher-lyes.....so theyre still called that today!
I always without fail type mySLEF when i am typing fast....for some reason my fingers just dont type the E first...I used to go back and correct it, but now I dont generally bother because I do it so often.
We have a family friend called Marilyn who is the godmother to both my girls. Unfortunately to this day the girls cannot pronounce her name right.
It always comes out as "Mallerin". Both of them do it identically even though there's 5 years between them.
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