Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Spelling Bees

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Here’s an interesting one for you:

Me, I have a few:

  • embarrassment (I always either leave one of the r’s or one of the s’s off in the middle)
  • minuscule (typically write it as miniscule)
  • occurrence

How about you…which word trips you up the most?

Have at it in the comments, scamps.

36 thoughts on “Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Spelling Bees”

  1. Hors d’oeuvres (autocorrect had to fix this once again as I tried to put the “v” before the “u”) As one who once made it as far as the state spelling bee, this irks me to no end.

  4. being dyslexic makes all wordsmithing a journey – Grammarly to the rescue!

  5. More than a few now. My older brian has a lot of little farts. As you can see.
    business- for some reason
    thier, so simple, still tripps me up. Damn, did it again.

  8. It’s not a word that I misspell, but one I see here on the blog and in the comments regularly. “Lead” is the metal and present tense of the verb; “led” is the past tense.

  9. “Misspell”, oddly enough. I only want to use one “s”.

    Oh, and I ducking hate autocorrect!

    • I hate autocorrect also. I’ve never in my life called someone a ducking cant.

  12. Sheriff.

    My brain can’t understand why words like terror, mirror, marrow, borrow, carry, tomorrow, and many more have two r’s but sheriff does not.

    • Agreed. As much as I watch all those crime dramas and action movies, every time I see it I think, “are they misspelling that on purpose to show it’s a fake Sherriff”…then I realize, oh, one r.

      And misspelled. Agree with above that I have to wonder every time I do it. And using everytime versus every time. English is hell.

  14. Way back in the day I worked at the Journal Constitution. There were no computers or spell check. We employed human beings as proofreaders.
    Everything was read three times, each time by a different person. At some point we did an analysis of which words most often made it into print misspelled. The word we most often misspelled was “newspaper.” We generally misspelled it as “newpaper.”

  15. Any word longer than 7 letters as I tend to forget what I’m doing by then.

  17. Fun Fact: “Misspell” is one of the most often misspelled words.

  18. Pretty much anything past CAT and DOG makes me thankful for spell check (most of the time).

    • It’s hard for me to pronounce my “R’s” and “G’s” when I’m speaking southerness…..“Yankees don’t understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.”….

      • Lewis Grizzard pointed this out with naked (not having on clothes) and nekkid (you don’t have any clothes on – and you’re up to something.). Then there is wrestling (what they do in the Olympics) and rasslin” (what comes on TV after the late news on Saturday night).
        I tell people all the time I speak Southern, and I’m working on English so I can claim to be bilingual.

  19. A pet peeve is how many people will go with “loose” for “lose.”

    • That is true traditionally, but over time so many people include the e that it has become an accepted spelling.

        • I was always told the oder you get from a judge after a trial is a “judgment,” but your personal choices in life were a sign of your individual “judgement.” I think most people just drop the e now overall. I had it beaten out me in law school.🤣

  21. I can spell if I can speak a word or hand write a word. I just cant typo a word. And autocrat isnt usefull because it dont know the difference between fro and for, their and there, form and from, and many others. And when a legal term is involved its totally worthless. It’s not me that cant spell. it’s my fingers.

  22. Every time I try to type “florida gators” it comes out as FUCK THOSE MOTHER FUCKERS. Weird…

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