Spelling Bee

A while back, my spelling was called out as being exceptionally bad. Shortly afterwards I made a list of words that the spell checker was fixing for me, words that I know I've misspelled a lot of times. Here's my list:

• occurring


• consistently


• entries


• vegetables


• indefinitely


• cylinders


• opinion


• business


• successfully


• disappearing (the word that killed me in a spelling bee in 4th grade - I've never been able to spell it before or since)


• embarrassed


• simultaneously


• absence


• presence


• inconvenience


• phlegm


• rhythm


• exercise

Some of the words are terribly embarrassing. In fact, in the course of writing this entry I spelled the following words wrong:

• embarrassing


• exceptionally


• misspelled

Comments Individual Archive Index

July 9, 2003 01:15 AM, Eugene said:

Shrapnel. That's the word that got me at the end of a school-wide spelling bee when I was in grade school. Then of course I saw the word everywhere, like in every Hardy Boys book I read after that. Another word that stopped me in a later class spelling bee was sherbet. What an evil word. It's pronounced "sherbert" isn't it? Well, that's pretty deceptive. Anybody check out the movie Spellbound?

July 9, 2003 04:51 PM, John said:

Well, at least you've convinced us that you can spell "Go" correctly.

July 10, 2003 02:05 AM, Maggie said:

"Go"? I always thought it was spelled "Gogh" as in "Van Gogh"!

July 10, 2003 10:14 AM, Erin said:

Well, in Japan it's called "Igo".

July 11, 2003 06:32 AM, Erin said:

Hi Erin, cute site! you are listed at my site Other Erins on the Web - thanks!

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