What everyday words are hard to spell?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>fourty or forty >.<</p>

42

<p>"wednesday"</p>

<p>i dont know i always had problems on this word ... the way you say it and teh way its spelt is completely two different things</p>

43

<p>i think it's forty without the U. and is labour with or without the U?</p>

44

<p>Yeah, Wednesday.</p>

45

<p>Olny... only. I can never spell that word.</p>

46

<p>address. I always spell is adress for some reason.</p>

47

<p>threshhold.</p>

48

<p>Wow...how embarrassing</p>

49

<p>apparently, "own" and "elite". :D</p>

50

<p>Existence. Spelled it "existance" for years.</p>

51

<p>environment had me annoyed for a while. so did thief</p>

52

<p>Probably is a one I misspell a lot.</p>

53

<p>Wow, you guys are pretty bad at spelling. For me, extemporaneous got me for a long time. But I never used it, anyway.</p>

54

<p>I'm a visual, not verbal, learner, so I don't tend to misspell words that much, but, the words I see most frequently misspelled by others:</p>

<p>weird
definitely
tomorrow
embarrassed
license</p>

<p>But what frustrates me the most is when people mess up anything in the sets {their, they're, there}, {your, you're}, and {to, too}. In elementary school (and this was a not-so-great public one) everyone was drilled over and over on the aforementioned words. I can't help but now wonder, what were people doing in class back when they were 8 or 9?</p>

55

<p>i'm doing an internship, and the one thing that's surprised me the most is how often adults misspell words. but i guess if you don't learn when you're younger...?
when i was younger i always spelled 'juvenile' as 'junevile.'</p>

56

<p>Well, not spelling, but I recently learned that the expression I'd thought to be, "For all intensive purposes," is ACTUALLY "for all intents and purposes." The former made sense in its own ways, but you see this is what happens when people don't hear your mistaken perceptions. :)</p>

57

<p>Last year in APUSH I hated "amendment." I always thought there were two m's.</p>

<p>Also, the one I see mispelled THE most is "difinitely." It's either "definately" or definitly" or something like that. It bugs me like no other. Actually, misspelling "its" bugs me more. It's really very simple but EVERYBODY gets it wrong.</p>

58

<p>^oh god, when people spell definitely "defiantly" it drives me insane.</p>

59

<p>I always spelled "independence" as "independance"</p>

<p>So I came up with a thing, "never DANCE when you win your indepenDENCE" LOL</p>

60

<p>plaid</p>

<p>10 characters</p>