What word looks wrong the more you look at it?

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Sixforsilver7for@reddit

Somehow this annoys me less. I cannot explain why.

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ReallySmallFeet@reddit

What about eighth?

I've heard people pronounce it both as "ate-th" and "ay-th".

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I’ve never thought about it and won’t give it any thought after this for my sanity but as someone who cannot handle f sounds or th sounds twelfth is the worst. I dont understand how I can handle fifth but maybe it comes up less and maybe I rarely see it spelt. Damn Shakespeare for writing any plays.

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ReallySmallFeet@reddit

Ha, I appreciate the response. :)

Also re: your username...

...gold. Eight for a secret never to be told?

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Sixforsilver7for@reddit

Well yes exactly apart from the fact I messed up the numbers :)

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exhausted-pangolin@reddit

Fifthly, filthy fifth-fief thief's teeth

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_FreddieLovesDelilah@reddit

It’s such a goofy looking word lol haha guys look at the goofy guy

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Decent_Confidence_36@reddit

I’ve just sat saying the word over and over again for 30 seconds because my brain wouldn’t let me believe that’s the real word

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Pronunciation counts for Alot!!! 😏

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1Marmalade@reddit

Alot looks wrong as it is always two words.

A little A lot.

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ema_l_b@reddit

That word makes my brain lisp

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Fleder-maus@reddit

Awkward always looks really awkward to me

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Sensitive-Vast-4979@reddit

I always feel as if theres a missingle letter after the k am that no one pronounces like in lots of words

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Vampyrelol@reddit

Same with "weird"

It breaks the I before e, except after c rule, which is weird.

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D0wnb0at@reddit

I’m dyslexic, only mildly, but that word really fucks me over. I try to spell it 10-15 times and word or iPhone doesn’t know what I’m trying to say so I have to google it and google is so much better at interpreting my dyslexic spelling.

I always try to spell it arqward, arqwerd, arequard, arqwerd, awqward,

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Some_Ad6507@reddit

I like spelling it out loud

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

But it reads just like it should?! (Forgive me Jamiroquai ) 😔

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TheBurras@reddit

Autopsy

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your_swindon_lot@reddit

The name ‘Siobhan’

(Lovely name but doesn’t sound how it looks)

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DECKTHEBALLZ@reddit

Because it isn't English..

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NuclearMaterial@reddit

Wrecks my head when people just don't get it. It's not spoken so much across the island any more but it is it's own language. Not even in the same language branch as English.

When they struggle with a French word, or a Spanish word they're like "that's fair, it's in a different language." But Irish shits people up "WhY caNt YoU SpeLL iT NoRmAlLY!?" It is normal, go away.

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crubeens@reddit

It does sound how it looks, it’s Irish so doesn’t follow rules of English. S and i make a Shh sound. There’s no letter V in Irish so the combination of B and H makes a V sound and the A should have a fada (accent) over it, á = aw. Similarly why Niamh is pronounced with a V, MH makes a V sound too

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your_swindon_lot@reddit

Thank you for explaining it.

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crubeens@reddit

No problem, also fair play for spelling it right 😂

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Silvagadron@reddit

Try Caiomhe!

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crubeens@reddit

A lot of Irish names become easier to pronounce when you know that ‘mh’ and ‘bh’ make a V sound

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

I dont want to be rude but to me that looks like squid rings.

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SpudFire@reddit

Saoirse. Honestly I think the Irish just make this shit up for a laugh and to confuse us

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Routine_Lychee9923@reddit

It's an Irish name, why would the goal be to make it more palatable to the Anglo ear?

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feckarse-drinkgirls@reddit

literally a Lee Mack bit

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

It does, as it is in Irish.

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Routine_Lychee9923@reddit

Sick of folk saying Irish and Scottish names are spelled wrong or weird. They're not English names! They are spelled as they should be in the language from which they originate! It's fine if they can't pronounce it but once they learn I'd prefer not to be laughed at or told I'm wrong

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Routine_Lychee9923@reddit

It sounds how it looks in the language it originates from. It isn't an English name so of course it doesn't make much sense to an English eye or ear.

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slimdrum@reddit

I think that's the Irish Gaelic spelling, my cousin shares the same name and I always have to double check the spelling for Christmas cars etc

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Tennis_Proper@reddit

You’re giving cars for Christmas?

Can I be your friend?

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slimdrum@reddit

Oof auto correct strikes again I wish I could settle this vendetta it has against me!

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

FIGHT! FIGHT!

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slimdrum@reddit

I wish I could but I just don't have the words!

I'll see myself out..

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oscarx-ray@reddit

If you think that's bad, you should try spelling "cards"! 🤯

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slimdrum@reddit

Auto correct be that way sometimes lol

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

I thought the same thing when I 'saw' the name Mauve!! Even now, it just doesn't make sense?! 🤨

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bopeepsheep@reddit

Mauve or Maeve?

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Pave? 🤷

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ProfessionalTap2400@reddit

That’s French, so French spelling! It just means purple!

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emiliewarrendahmer@reddit

And Niamh

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AlucardVTep3s@reddit

First time I read that name was in Twilight Breaking Dawn and I pronounced it See-Bow-Han😂

Then years later in 6th form I had a form tutor with the same name and LUCKILY she stated her name when she introduced herself before I could embarrass myself by asking.

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Choccybizzle@reddit

Growing up going to a catholic school I just see that as a perfectly normal spelling!

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Electus93@reddit

Sin Head!

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AdAffectionate2418@reddit

Mhairi as well (which i have seen pronounced as Mary, Marry, Marie , and Varrie - all by people actually named Mhairi...)

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harriscot57@reddit

Turns out Mhairi isn't pronounced 'ma hairy'. Mhairi Dick put me right in that one.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

😹

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bozwold@reddit

sheevaughn, shuvonne, chavvon, chervaun, shh-von.

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Lynvor@reddit

I always pronounced 'aiofe' as 'oif'

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extinctionAD@reddit

Yacht

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drivingagermanwhip@reddit

Also quay and buoy. What is sailors' problem?

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ERTCF53@reddit

It's to distinguish from key and boy

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JurassicM4rc@reddit

They were drunk when they wrote one of them.

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oscarx-ray@reddit

Looks like it should sound like a cat coughing up a hairball.

Oh, "coughing" is weird too

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ERTCF53@reddit

Sickth

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Suspicious__Lurker@reddit

Bovril

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mystery-hog@reddit

“Both” !!!!!

When I was about 11, I remember landing on this word and thinking…hang on a minute….that word is batshit.

Around twenty five “boths” later, I was verging on hysteria from the sheer wrongness of it.

That was a great day.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

😹

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Lanesra8989@reddit

Supposably

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SharpieD85@reddit

My name. I dont write it down very often and when I do it just looks wrong.

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chuckiestealady@reddit

Occasion gets right on my tits

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dzhuliyaetkinson3@reddit

"Unnecessary". By the third time looking at it I genuinely forget if it's one or two c's

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not-my-circus1992@reddit

I always have my year 4 teacher in my head going "a shirt needs one collar and two sleeves" whenever I spell it 😂😂

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chuckiestealady@reddit

Like “accommodation” needs two cots with two mattresses!

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exhausted-pangolin@reddit

Same with me, one cup two sugars

And I always have to stop and please ask Richard about little Lucy's English lesson for parallel(ogram)

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Tis unnecessary, to be sure! 😏

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Chrisaudi27t@reddit

Therapist

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chuckiestealady@reddit

In the brilliant novel The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell, the main narrator is taken to a psychotherapist and is asked “do you know who I am?”

He answers “yes, you’re Psycho The Rapist”

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Gone_For_Lunch@reddit

Even worse…

Psychotherapists

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mdmnl@reddit

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Rumhed@reddit

The what?

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Carlomahone@reddit

First name Hypno.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

For MANY wrong reasons...take my upvote!!!

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tamshubbie@reddit

doable - never looks right

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UnderstandingLow5979@reddit

February

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Spoon-Fed-Badger@reddit

Anus

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srig8@reddit

bed - because it just looks like a bed

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cococats@reddit

Impeller

I want it to end or or maybe even ar, er after the e in the middle fella won't. I have sent many emails spelling impeller wrong

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underwater-sunlight@reddit

Tongue

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Ivan_Dobsky_MD@reddit

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

I agree with the sentiment...not one word tho is it ?!

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Ivan_Dobsky_MD@reddit

It is a single word https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/antidisestablishmentarianism

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Til!

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Tommy-Foxwell@reddit

Onion. Daisies.

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LostInAisle1@reddit

Forty, in the context of four, fourteen, forty. Where did the I go???

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takesthebiscuit@reddit

Scone, especially since it’s pronounced scone, not scone

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exhausted-pangolin@reddit

There's a stone of scone in Scotland but to be contrary they pronounce it skoon

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not-my-circus1992@reddit

Unless you're from the north of England, in which case it's pronounced scone, not scone.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Love the fact that I understood the different pronunciations!! 😸

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EonsOfZaphod@reddit

I believe that cabbage is the only vegetable that you can spell playing a musical instrument

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AdDisastrous6356@reddit

Hospital on family guy

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theabominablewonder@reddit

Connotate

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EugeneHartke@reddit

Con science

Beat rice

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notspringsomnia@reddit

Restaurant

Why is the aunt resting

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AnyOlUsername@reddit

Who

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Significant_Froyo899@reddit

Rhythm

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pdabraham@reddit

Supersede.

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Gordone56@reddit

I used to be absolutely convinced that it was superceded but now I have been educated that it is with a middle s and not c! Oh and by the way I am grandfather age!

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FilmFanatic1066@reddit

Diarrhoea

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Mental_Emu4856@reddit

netflix

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Footner@reddit

Wrong

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boredsittingonthebus@reddit

Awry

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Hypnagogic_Image@reddit

Languorous

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Bbew_Mot@reddit

London. I don't know why but if I say 'London' over and over again it stops sounding like a real city. I think it is too simple a name for a British place!

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HotPotatoWithCheese@reddit

We should bring back Londinium

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Why did you wanna become a Policeman?

It's a Police Officer now

Why didja wanna become a Police Man Officer?'

"GO BACK TO LOOODON"

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lamaldo78@reddit

Bookkeeper

It has 3 double letters back to back and it always throws me. It looks wrong, but it's correct

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VariousBeat9169@reddit

Wednesday

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fozziwoo@reddit

indescribable

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AdAffectionate2418@reddit

Phoenix - it really feels like the o and e should be swapped (if are hellbent on using both)

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ChrisRR@reddit

Phoebe disagrees

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Great_Tradition996@reddit

When I was younger, I heard the name Phoebe (in Neighbours, I think) but assumed it was Febee/Feebee. I’d also seen the name Phoebe written down and assumed it was Foh-eeb. Took me a long time to realise the two names were the same 😂

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

You sometimes see it in very old writing with the the ligature "œ"

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smoulderstoat@reddit

I have a relative who wanted to call their daughter Pheonix, until the Registrar talked them out of it.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

YES! 👍

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Agile-Rock4248@reddit

Uncle

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Do_not_use_after@reddit

Aloysius is a nice name

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4tunabrix@reddit

Wrong

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Shot-Disk5958@reddit

agree lol

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RaidersGuy85@reddit

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ZiroLeHutt@reddit

Strength, simply because I always have to correct myself when typing it.

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Howard1981@reddit

Thorough

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Routine-Potential384@reddit

Egypt

Chaos

Brother

Quay

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

The last...yeah WTF?! You can go to the Florida Keys. Order Key Lime Pie yet...🤬

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jomabu23@reddit

It's a quayword.

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OkDonkey6524@reddit

All of them if I stare for long enough.

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jomabu23@reddit

Amen, donkey!

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Peanutbutter9841@reddit

You

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DichotomyJones@reddit

All words

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Kraken1out@reddit

Bacon.

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CheapDeepAndDiscreet@reddit

Comb/Tomb

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KryptonionNipple@reddit

Tongue

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stevielfc76@reddit

Obviously

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Cormsbadger8@reddit

Committee. What’s the point in having two Ms, two Ts and two Es?

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martyrees76@reddit

Daughter never looks right to me

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FunkyYoghurt@reddit

I hope you don't tell her that.

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martyrees76@reddit

Nah, my daughter is beautiful. The word however…

How would that be pronounced if we didn’t know what it was.

My sons an go though /s

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frankensteinsmaster@reddit

Committee

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RequirementEasy4273@reddit

Wednesday. Once you start you can't stop.

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Arion_Tavestra@reddit

Earlier, fuck that word.

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Zavodskoy@reddit

I can never remember how to spell "Guarantee" without using autocorrect and the longer I stare at it, the less it looks like it spelled correctly even after being corrected

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135BkRdBl@reddit

"Of" - neither letter makes the right sound.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

OV!

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135BkRdBl@reddit

UV!

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PolebagEggbag@reddit

Blood

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DivePotato@reddit

All words. If I say or spell them enough they’re all weird.

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Hyperdon@reddit

Broccoli

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Suspicious_Put_5063@reddit

It always sounds like it needs one C and two L

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Hyperdon@reddit

Yes! I always have to stop and think how it's spelt. Not that I write it very often 😂

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Suspicious_Put_5063@reddit

Me too 😂

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Express-Ebb1197@reddit

Diarrhea

Literally looks like somebody Diarrhea’d the letters out to form the word

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ChrisRR@reddit

Diarrhoea*

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PingouinFluffy@reddit

Queue and liaise. The spell checked on Microsoft used to highlight liaise as incorrect, but it doesn't any more.

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mousey76397@reddit

Queue is the only 5 letter word where you can remove 4 out of the 5 letters and it still say the same thing.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

So you ARE alright to liaise in the queue?! 🤨

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TMI2020@reddit

Council.

I never really questioned it until Will did in the Inbetweeners.

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Jimmyboro@reddit

Camera

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Additional_Tone_2004@reddit

I had to double check spelling 'proper' the other day 🥹👌🏻

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lend_us_a_quid_mate@reddit

Swan

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Melodic_Ingenuity962@reddit

I don’t know about wrong but bed looks like a bed.

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FinneyontheWing@reddit

Mirage.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Where?!

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Virag-Lipoti@reddit

All of them.

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Educational-Angle717@reddit

February - it just doesn’t work.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Agreed!!! Feb - roo. Aaarly...🤷

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shebasmum49@reddit

Wrong!!

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DECKTHEBALLZ@reddit

Zhuzh should't be spelt like that..

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TossThisItem@reddit

It’s weird, but I also kinda get it. It’s not how I would have guessed it was spelled but I don’t think over letters (g, gh, sh etc.h really make as much sense.

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lady_faust@reddit

I used to get this alot, then I was diagnosed with Dyslexia and then it made sense

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Wolfstar_Forever_@reddit

Enough

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TossThisItem@reddit

Levelled, as opposed to leveled with one L. Apparently the former is more British but I’d take the latter

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Fun_Opportunity_7236@reddit

Weird

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skilless@reddit

Awl off theme

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Ecstatic_Effective42@reddit

Onomatopoeia just sounds wrong.

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elonmuskismydad-@reddit

Ironic

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Don't you think?

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Ravdoggydog@reddit

Who

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Hoo!

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Ravdoggydog@reddit

Woe 😢

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Twit...

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Rasty_lv@reddit

Actually my own name. It's not odd, out of ordinary. Just it does look weird to me sometimes, when I think about it.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

🙀

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Inside_Bowler_2511@reddit

Subtle

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ACatCalledMorty@reddit

Square

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nitnitnotnot@reddit

Weird

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FunkyYoghurt@reddit

I know the English language is mental but Yacht is just stupid.

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AdemHoog@reddit

Seize. "I before E except after C" reverberates around the inside of my skull, louder and louder, until I look away.

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CarpeCyprinidae@reddit

"I before E except after C" said my weird beige neighbour

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AdemHoog@reddit

See now I can get on with those examples!

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BlackJesus123@reddit

Segue

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tripping_yarns@reddit

As a graphic designer who has to deal with typography, all of them. The more you stare at words the more they become a bunch of shapes.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Some words SO MADDENING tho....🙄

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uncle_monty@reddit

Coiffured

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Here n there....the hair... 😮

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tomsayshello@reddit

Bureau

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

People... Furniture...misspelt FUR SURE!

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AlucardVTep3s@reddit

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Show off

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DriftingDogBed@reddit

Rendezvous

Not an English word but I pronounced it ravenous for the longest time whenever I saw it written down

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

The film is Bloody Amazing tho eh?!

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iiiBus@reddit

Sugar

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Shugar? 🤔

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hopperlocks@reddit

Niamh.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Even now...yarp?

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Limp-Attitude-490@reddit

I reckon the word reckon.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Wreck-um!

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candog75@reddit

Autopsy but that’s because my brain always rewords it in my head as Autospy

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Same, same 😸

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thegrotster@reddit

Rhythm

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LuminalDjinn11@reddit

syzygy.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Hello Harry 😏

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flavouredicecubes@reddit

Moustache

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OccidentalTouriste@reddit

Wrong.

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emiliewarrendahmer@reddit

Meant

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mcbeef89@reddit

Fiery. Why isn't it 'firey'?

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andyfantastic999@reddit

Yacht

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seanicusbaximus@reddit

Governor

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MickSturbs@reddit

Supersede

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Plus-Mulberry6761@reddit

Scissors

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Remote-Field4624@reddit

Queue. It's correct English but I always struggled. Que is ok an cue if your a billiards or off shoot.

Q uw que? Ue?

It's the one English word I'm like why.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Por quoi?

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Remote-Field4624@reddit

Por favor? Illa de brulliard

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Remote-Field4624@reddit

Haha it's a very weird word isn't it how we spell it.

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KingStevoI@reddit

Paradigm

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daco_star@reddit

hors d'oeuvres

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Hippadoppaloppa@reddit

Horses doofers, my FIL calls it!

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Not for the Ladies of the Night? Noted 🤔

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Hippadoppaloppa@reddit

Milk. It's just so weird.

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BillPayers@reddit

Egregious

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Thank you 😏

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Choccybizzle@reddit

Colonel

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

'Kernal' In the conservatory. With the candlestick!

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

Eight.

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mrkeeeny@reddit

Eighth for me.

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windy_on_the_hill@reddit

Business - would be right if the i moved to the other side of the its s. (We could also drop the u but I care less about that.)

Then we could spell busyness with an i instead of a y to match general rules.

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

😸

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Dismal-Lengthiness12@reddit

Unnessassary

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Responsible-Ad-3331@reddit

zhuzh

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Bless you

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TheViscountRang@reddit

Wrong

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boredom-depressed23@reddit

Answer

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Familiar_Benefit_776@reddit

Queue

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Beneficial_Trip7709@reddit

Rhythm

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closecharge715@reddit

Rhythm

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ema_l_b@reddit

I saw a riddle the other day that had the weird 'daughter' in it twice, but cos I kept rereading it, I read it a LOT.

Changed to 'dafter' in my head, and then lost all meaning.

Umbrella is one of my main repeating ones, and i dont even need to use the twatting word that often, but it's still there

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

If it's there....it Will follow you...😮

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Limit_Ok@reddit

Gauge

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MissingScore777@reddit

Irrelevant

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getrekt03@reddit

Unfortunately

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nonoanddefinitelyno@reddit

Semantic satiation

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Oo-er 😸

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Spiritual-Fondant656@reddit

Saddle

(I became totally obsessed with this in my head during a Spin class a few years back every time the instructor told us to get our asses out of the saddle, and had to go home & Google!)

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SuperDinkle406@reddit

Moist

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

🤢

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Twee

Think I'm suspicious of them precisely because they're spelled exactly how you'd think they should be, idk

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Ok-Ebb5960@reddit (OP)

Overly suspicious...I like it 🫡

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