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What words can't you spell?

  • 30-08-2009 8:03pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭


    I consider myself to have descent spelling but every once in awhile a word comes along that just completely throws me off. What words catch you out every time?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut


    slufbhertopk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    dysclexia


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    fuppin baxtard


  • Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I see that decent catches you out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,121 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    c**t. s**t.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Cmc29 wrote: »
    I consider myself to have descent spelling but every once in awhile a word comes along that just completely throws me off. What words catch you out every time?
    Really?

    *edit* Damn you jammy dodger.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut


    I see that decent catches you out.

    No he is referring to the condition 'descent spelling' . Its very sad and you shouldn't laugh at him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭hatetherain!


    coincidence –noun a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance: Our meeting in Venice was pure coincidence.
    I always have to "spell check" that word!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Four-Percent


    Coruscating


    vivacious


    cat


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Tarantino has the same problem,:D
    Inglourious Basterds


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    OP, if we cant spell the words....how'd you expect us to write them here:confused::confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    which reminds me...
    anyone hear about the dysclexic pimp?
    he bought a warehouse :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    Coruscating


    vivacious


    cat

    Quite an exciting cat to have then so


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    wudangclan wrote: »
    which reminds me...
    anyone hear about the dysclexic pimp?
    he bought a warehouse :pac:

    ba dum dum tish


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Four-Percent


    Adamcp898 wrote: »
    Quite an exciting cat to have then so

    Yeah, but it's a pain to feed him :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Irish Trinity



    Hah thats insane why make a word thats a lung disease so hard to say and spell?

    i can picture it now..

    *rings friend in hospital*

    "Hey man heard your in hospital? whats wrong?"

    "Ah i'm grand but i've got this lung disease its called *deap breath* Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcan...."

    *Line drops dead*

    "Oh Sh1t!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Diageio_Man


    supercalifragilisticexpialidocious .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    sizzors, scizzors, sissors, scizzers, scissers scissors always gets me. Such a horribly spelt word.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    der r a gud feuw


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    Only one I can think of atm is "alcohol" for some reason, spellcheck to the rescue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Kalashnikov_Kid


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    nopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭giggsy664


    I find the word Terry very difficult to spell


    For some reason, 45% of the time I spell it cùnt, and 45% of the time I spell it baštard.

    I only spell it right 10% of the time :(








    *May or may not be true


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Wolfsberg


    diahorrea


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    Prtety mcuh any wrod in the enlisgh dcitaniory :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭MmmmmCheese


    Dyslexics of the world, Untie!!!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,946 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Irregardless is a divil of a word to spell. I always loose out on spelling taht one.

    teh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    this week?

    a lot of words.

    /:|


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Delta Kilo


    pron


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    analysis


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    cocksmokingcuntflaps


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    Definately Definatly Definantly Definetly Definently Definitely


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 930 ✭✭✭*giggles*


    Lopadotemakhoselakhogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleiolagōiosiraiobaphētraganopterýgōn catches me out every time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I generally don't have a problem with spelling, but one word always stumps me: is it "existent" or "existant"? Neither looks right!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


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    supercalifragilikiaff9oehqweqwe
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    also

    I usually insult my welsh firends from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch when I spell the name of the town wrong


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    *giggles* wrote: »
    Lopadotemakhoselakhogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterýgon catches me out every time

    Not that time obviously.
    That looks right to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭moonflower


    Definately Definatly Definantly Definetly Definently Definitely

    This, I always have to look it up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭In All Fairness


    Dudess wrote: »
    I generally don't have a problem with spelling, but one word always stumps me: is it "existent" or "existant"? Neither looks right!

    I'm pretty sure they're both right. "existent" is if you're talking about a film you saw in the Screen, and "existant" is if you're talking about a film you saw in the IFC.

    I actually find the word "misspelt" tricky. Is that right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,246 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 515 ✭✭✭In All Fairness


    Definately Definatly Definantly Definetly Definently Definitely

    Are you sure?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    necessary


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Kalashnikov_Kid


    Another 2 ghey ones, doing my head in atm as Im writing my dissertation -

    quantitative and qualitative - always fook them up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    Cmc29 wrote: »
    I consider myself to have descent spelling but every once in awhile a word comes along that just completely throws me off. What words catch you out every time?
    I see that decent catches you out.

    Descent spelling is actually very rare nowadays - it used to be commonplace in Victorian Britain where whole communities would congregate to hear people spell certain difficult words while dropping the volume slightly with each successive letter so that the final letter was so low it was only audible to a young Barn Owl.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭az2wp0sye65487


    Old McDonald was dyslexic, Q. G. O. R. P.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    I think id be here all day if I listed them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I am a pretty good speller. I can tell if a word is spelled correctly or not when I see it written down or visualise it in my head!

    I always get confused between practice and practise though! :( That's not a spelling problem but anyway!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Homicidal_jesus


    i always have to stop and think when im going to write how or who lol ive gotten them mixed up so many times!!!

    but apart from that i can spell a-okay


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 496 ✭✭renraw


    supercalafaragilisticespealodocious....erm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    Another 2 ghey ones, doing my head in atm as Im writing my dissertation -

    quantitative and qualitative - always fook them up

    Isn't that more a semantic thing. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭ronaneire


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