[Discussion] Words that still trip you up

CiCi

CiCi

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    Are there any words or phrases that trip you up all the time? I came up with this idea while telling my friend I was gonna, "cleanse my palette... No, wait. My palett— Er. Palate? Yeah, that's the one."

    I also get tripped up on spelling words like occasionally or unnecessary. I never remember how many Cs vs Ss are in these words. Now that I see how they're the opposite of one another (two Cs and one S vs one C and two Ss) might help me FINALLY conquer these words.

    There are also silly ones like intensive purposes rather than intents and purposes. Do any of you mess up on these turns of phrase? I thought I was wrong when I said case in point. Until I realized I was right and somehow felt like even more of an idiot than if I had just gotten it wrong in the first place.

    As a writer, I always find it ironic to get tripped up on words that I use all the time.
     
    I get so mad when I see the red squiggles when I'm writing lmfao. I don't know if this one counts, but Snezhnaya and Khaenri'ah trip me up a lot. Sometimes, I spell it as Shehnaya Sneznhaya and don't get me started on Khaenri'ah that word is impossible to remember. A feel like when I'm writing a lot of not easy to see Genshin proper nouns just trip me up.

    Also, when I wrote my novel, to "say the least" was to "say in the least". I had to fix it often.

    For any other words, can't think of any off the top of my head since in what I'm currently writing big technology words, the ones I can't spell to save my life don't need to written in this one, thankfully, otherwise maintenance would be high on the list. I had to have autocorrect fix that one for me yet again.
     
    Palamon said:
    I get so mad when I see the red squiggles when I'm writing lmfao.
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    Oh yes, I have been there so much lmao. It's always like I don't believe it as well. I'll think, "No, that's definitely a word, dammit. Look! I'll look it up in the diction— ... oh crap you're right it's not..."
     
    I found out I've been saying/spelling "lackadaisical" wrong for my whole life. I've been adding an unnecessary "s" in the middle, so I was saying "lacks-a-day-sickle". That was special.

    Also the word "etiquette". For the life of me I do not know why but I always misspell that one.
     
    Irregardless and regardless. (Not even half kidding, I was not really aware that in the few contexts that "irregardless" is kinda sorta allowed to exist, it means "regardless"!).

    Other than that, anything related to occasion or opposition (how many repeated consonants and where) still trips me up, as well as append/prepend and affect/effect (which ones mean exactly what, and what prepositions or conjugations do they mingle with).
     
    Cushion is another word that gets me. Struggled to spell it just now, but some miracle I got it right, and it just makes me wonder: where did the O come from????? Cusheeon
     
    CiCi said:
    Struggled to spell it just now, but some miracle I got it right, and it just makes me wonder: where did the O come from????? Cusheeon
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    Ah yes Cusheeon, the soft Eeveelution.

    But yeah some words are flat out weird, even if they don't trip one that much.
     
    I will always and forever regret naming one character "Siegfried".
     
    Vragon2.0 said:
    I will always and forever regret naming one character "Siegfried".
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    Me whenever I spell my main oc's name wrong because it's an Irish word. The name doesn't trip me up, but sometimes I spell it so incredibly incorrectly I feel incredibly embarrassed. "How could I spell his name so incorrectly? I named him that!" Will not reveal the name just yet, though.

    ...Okay, here's another word that trips me up, embarrassed. When I was replying to this this thread, the red squiggles came up again and I had to autocorrect it. I'm sure it happens when I'm writing, too, Some words with double consonants are trippy.
     
    Necessary, necessity, vacuum, receive. I always add extra letters or invert. Words with two sets of double consonants have the potential to make me pause, as well.
     
    So I've realized that I always struggle to spell inadvertently. I don't know why, but I want to spell it inadvertantly so bad. Maybe due to the phonetics?
     
    Late but I think I've remembered two of my own nemesis words... first is suddenly which I've spelled as "suddenDly" for ages for some reason, and then embarrassing (wow, fits right in with this topic) because while I can understand the two S, the two R don't really make sense to me. In Italian you have imbarazzato (two Z but one R) which further contributes to the confusion... :)
     
    I couldn't spell "forfeit" correctly for a while and now my phone keeps autocorrecting to "forfiet" >:(

    other words i constantly misspell include recipe, receipt, fuchsia, and yeah any of the palate homophones are rough. theres more im sure lol but thats whats off the top of my head
     
    Guys, if i misspell occurred wrong one more time when I write my fanfiction, I'm going to riot. The amount of times I've misspelled this, despite writing it at least three times every section drives me up a wall. I think my brain just always forgets it has two consecutive cs in it, I hate it here.
     
    I feel your pain, it's one of those "is this like a hard c? is it a c or a cc? or a k?" cases that is so recurrent in English (here speaking aas an ESL).

    Always happens to me with eg.: vaccuum vs vacuum which is a PITA given my field.
     
    words like occasionally or unnecessary. I never remember how many Cs vs Ss are in these words
    The same with successful😐
     
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