How in the world????

**YanksFanRy** · 10-13-2001, 09:42 AM

Certain words are very hard to spell. Words such as "hallelujah". I can't spell it without a spellcheck or dictionary for the life of me. What other words are tough for ya' to spell?

**Anck Su Namun** · 10-13-2001, 09:45 AM

Can't think of any. Spelling is one of the things in school I was (and am) actually really good at.

**YanksFanRy** · 10-13-2001, 09:54 AM

Originally posted by nefertiti
Can't think of any. Spelling is one of the things in school I was (and am) actually really good at.

Yah, I'm really good at spellng too, but everybody makes mistakes now and then... well, I guess not you!

**Anck Su Namun** · 10-13-2001, 09:56 AM

Originally posted by YanksFanRy

Yah, I'm really good at spellng too, but everybody makes mistakes now and then... well, I guess not you!

Sheesh don't get all offended, I wasn't making fun, I was just saying I couldn't think of any words!

**YanksFanRy** · 10-13-2001, 09:57 AM

Nefertiti - It was a joke

**Markel** · 10-13-2001, 10:01 AM

Spelling is one thing. Typos are another. There are a few words I have to check myself on, though. Definitely (instead of definately, which someone in here said is a male characteristic) is one in particular.

**Anck Su Namun** · 10-13-2001, 10:01 AM

Originally posted by YanksFanRy
Nefertiti - It was a joke

oh well ok then
hard to tell when someone is typing whether they are joking. you sounded serious.

oh and here is a hard word to spell...
supercalafragilisticexpialidocious

**Memo** · 10-13-2001, 10:24 AM

I don't know but I hate it when someone misspells something and you try to correct them and end up messing a word up.

**Markel** · 10-13-2001, 10:37 AM

I think words like "hallelujah" are harder to spell because they come from different linquistic origins than English. Of course, English being such a messed up language (as far as being able to spell things like they sound) makes things harder, too. I remember in German that if you know how something sounds you can almost always spell it.

**PuTangClan** · 10-13-2001, 10:57 AM

I wish the forums had a spell check so I wouldn’t look like an idiot mispelling words all the time (See what I mean)

**Kim** · 10-13-2001, 11:27 AM

Birthday is hard for me to type. For some reason 9 out of 10 times it ends up being birhtday. I guess my fingers work faster than my brain.

**Markel** · 10-13-2001, 11:49 AM

Originally posted by chosenfool
tehre, teh, rememebr,

also: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

thats a REAL word, by the way.

Usually considered the longest word in the dictionary. But did you spell if from memory?

**Markel** · 10-13-2001, 11:55 AM

Originally posted by chosenfool

actually, i did. it was 4th grade when i learned about it, and i had GREAT memory bqack then. I guess it just stuck...
some dictionaries spell it as pneumonoNOultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Wow. I'm genuinely impressed!

**Nanotech9** · 10-13-2001, 12:31 PM

TEH

**Markel** · 10-13-2001, 12:35 PM

Originally posted by Nanotech9
TEH

Yeah. But at least Word is "smart" enough to autocorrect that when you type it that way.

**zenbooty** · 10-13-2001, 01:09 PM

In Massachusetts there is a lake Chogoggagoggmanchoggagoggchabunagungamogg. Its the longest named landmark in the country, I believe.

Its Native American, of course. It translates to, "We fish on our side of the lake, you fish on your side, and no one fishes in the middle."

Its also been nicknamed Lake Webster for simplicity's sake.

**Mike_N_Ike** · 10-13-2001, 01:30 PM

I don't usually have that much trouble with spelling. I do however often mix up the E's and I's in words where they appear adjacent to each other.

**g222leav** · 10-13-2001, 08:56 PM

Originally posted by PuTangClan
I wish the forums had a spell check so I wouldn’t look like an idiot mispelling words all the time (See what I mean)

yea, i ssssssoooooooooo need spell check here.

i on the otherhand, pretty much misspells teh whole english language.

**jujubees** · 10-13-2001, 09:13 PM

Originally posted by Markel

Originally posted by Nanotech9
TEH

Yeah. But at least Word is "smart" enough to autocorrect that when you type it that way.

... except when you have to write a paper about people with the last name Teh. THEN it's a pain. If I remove "teh --> the" from my auto-correct, then I have to worry about all of the times that "teh" is actually a typo!

I'm generally very good with spelling, but there are those days when "it" doesn't even look right.

K2 · 10-13-2001, 09:15 PM

speel? wut tat?

**Markel** · 10-13-2001, 09:56 PM

Originally posted by DarkFury
Cause you do know... TYPOS SUCK!!!

Hmm. Seems like I've heard someone say that sometime somewhere before....

**Sir_Froggy** · 10-14-2001, 12:04 AM

oh oh oh i got juan

such as hipopotomos

**oblongmelon** · 10-14-2001, 06:19 AM

Hannakah. That's my word. I don't know how to spell it, and every time I have to use it I have to look it up or ask someone..maybe it's because I've seen it spelled so many different ways (I'm not even sure If I spelled it right this time!)...I've even seen it spelled with a CH in the beginning...

**welfareloser** · 10-14-2001, 07:23 AM

anything from french. bastids. 12 vowels in row just ain't necessary.

**YanksFanRy** · 10-14-2001, 10:27 AM

Originally posted by oblongmelon
Hannakah. That's my word. I don't know how to spell it, and every time I have to use it I have to look it up or ask someone..maybe it's because I've seen it spelled so many different ways (I'm not even sure If I spelled it right this time!)...I've even seen it spelled with a CH in the beginning...

No matter what anyone ever tells you: Chanukah