So here I am, brushing up my synopsis, typing the word toliet, and–of course–it gets underlined red because it’s spelled toilet. I don’t know why, but I have this mental block that prevents me from spelling it properly. I don’t get it, I have no idea why I unconsciously spell that specific, simple word wrong. I have to actively think the sounds out in my brain when I spell it. Pretty much every time. I’ll blame it on being a French word 😛 Modern technology, with it’s spell check and auto-correct, has negatively impacted my spelling ability.
Do you have a word that you just cannot for the life of you spell right? (at least without really thinking hard)
Sarah J. Carlson 
Weird. I always want to spell it wierd. 😀
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Ha! Glad I’m not the only one struggling with a five letter word!
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I always, always, always type chruch two or three times before I manage to get church out.
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Ha! nice to know I’m not the only one with mental blocks on simple words 😀
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I can never get rythem or rhyme right. I think i still got them wrong just now. And since I’m on my phone there’s no way for me to get the correct spellings. 🙂
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Haha your second one is correct! Why is it not spelled rime lol. Crazy English language
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I always tend to get place names mixed up. Oxford become Oxfrod 😀
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Haha!
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Years ago, I was picking up some extra money by keyboarding typed manuscripts into Word files for a science publisher. One day, they called to let me know that I had apparently mistyped “impotence issue” as “important issue” every single time in one of the manuscripts.
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Haha! Well I suppose that probably is an important issue as well?
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“Exercise.” I always wanna spell it “excercise.” It’s embarrassing – I’m this super Engliah aficionado to like everyone I know, and I can’t even spell “exercise” right. 😡
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I sometimes forget if it’s a z or s lol. Doesn’t help being surrounded by British English spellings in Singapore!
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I’m another one who gets stuck on wierd/weird – a symptom of my Germanic heritage maybe.
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Haha totally legit! It’s genetic!
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For whatever reason, I always type ‘teh’ instead of ‘the.’ One of the easiest words in the world, and I get it wrong all the time.
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Haha you’re not alone!
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For some reason I always want to put a ‘c’ after the ‘x’ in ‘excercise.’ I have made this mistake so many times now that I can never remember which version is correct and always second guess myself when I write exercise. On paper, I just try to avoid the word all together and substitute it with less appropriate terms like ‘gymnastics’ or ‘cardio.’
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Ha! I sometimes have to stop and think about that one, too! Thanks for stopping by!
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“Excited” tends to frequently be written as “exited” in my.
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Haha only one letter off. Thanks for stopping by!
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