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What is a word you write all the time but you misspell every time?

Asked by Caravanfan (13720points) December 1st, 2023

Every. Damn. Time.

For me the word is “resuscitation”

I’ve been resuscitating patients for over 30 years and I still can’t get the goddamned word spelled right.

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Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Occasion. I always make a mistake, and the little squiggly line notifies me it’s wrong.

janbb's avatar

@Hawaii_Jake I mess that up on ocassion too!

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

There, their, confession, dessert, desert, whom, effect, affect,

canidmajor's avatar

Gauge. I really want to transpose those vowels.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Pairs, pears.

janbb's avatar

“Weird” look “wierd” whichever way you spell it!

Kardamom's avatar

Conscientious

Fluorescent

Blackwater_Park's avatar

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
I can’t ever get that right.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Eiafriafucall the volcano in iceland. Usually called E16.
Schizophrenia.

JLeslie's avatar

I have to think hard when I spell definitely.

SQUEEKY2's avatar

For me for some reason was “patience”.

smudges's avatar

Exercise, conscientious (spelled it wrong while writing it here!), conscience, conscious

HA! misspell!

jca2's avatar

@RedDeerGuy1 One of my teachers taught us a hint to remember how to spell “dessert.” She said when you have dessert, you want 2 servings (to remember the “S” is twice).

She also gave us a hint to remember how to spell “religion.” She said “the GI gets religion in the foxhole.”

flutherother's avatar

My grandfather worked a linotype machine and had little phrases to remind him how certain words were spelt. Pharaoh was “arse over head”.

LuckyGuy's avatar

Yes I misspell “Friend. ” I swap the e and i and then have to correct it.

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

Mispell? Misspell? I’m not sure which is correct.

jca2's avatar

@flutherother I use phrasaes sometimes and I also have a way of doing the spelling pronunciation in my head, to help. For example, for pharaoh, in my head I say “phar-ay-oh.”

Blackwater_Park's avatar

Conscience and consciousness of all things give me trouble.

ragingloli's avatar

I always have the urge to spell career as carreer, or canceled as cancelled.
The double letter variant just feels more natural to me.
edit: apparently, “cancelled” is proper in British English, so that is the correct version.

Brian1946's avatar

I was going to write “miscellaneous”, but I guess I’ve finally learned to spell it.

chyna's avatar

Calendar. Always . Did it this time too! Ugh!

flutherother's avatar

I have trouble with that one too especially as there is a small town near here called and spelt Callander.

Jeruba's avatar

@Caravanfan, when you misspell “resuscitation,” how do you spell it?

cookieman's avatar

I always misspell improve as imporve on a standard keyboard. Every single time.

Not so much on the mobile qwerty keyboard.

Jeruba's avatar

But that’s just a typo, right, @cookieman? You don’t have any troublle knowing what the letters are.

Dutchess_III's avatar

All of them.

Forever_Free's avatar

conscientious

Caravanfan's avatar

@Jeruba Rescussitation. Most commonly.

Jeruba's avatar

@Caravanfan, hmm, interesting. I can see how that could be hard to shake off.

But maybe it would help to know that there’s a connection between “resuscitation” and “citation” through the Latin citare. You could get a citation for performing that resuscitation.

Caravanfan's avatar

@Jeruba That’s awesome, thanks!

cookieman's avatar

@Jeruba: Certainly, but I make the same typo every time.

tedibear's avatar

Condominium. It gets typed as “condominimum” 50% of the time. I usually catch it.

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