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 Words too hard to spell



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Connosewer. Connosure. Dang it... Connoisseur. It's a word designed for expert spellers.

I took a criminal case a few years ago at a local church. When I asked for the name of the church the pastor answered, "Holy Moly Me Oh My Presbyterian Church." He then proceeded to spell Presbyterian. I'm guessing a lot of people get that one wrong and are burning in h*ll for it.

Ambidextrous is one that I can spell wrong with either side of my brain.

I often have to spell "schizophrenic" in my reports and it always gives me fits. It usually causes "behavioral" problems. Arrgh.

Whoever came up with "paraphernalia" was probably smoking pot at the time.

Reconnaissance normally requires surveying a dictionary for answers.

Leprechaun is too big a word to describe such a small person. And it's hard to spell.

Idiosyncrasy is a peculiar word.

Whoever came up with "impugn" should be held responsible.

"Pair" is apparently very hard. It's often misspelled as pari, which is short for parakeet. Or shorts for parakeets.

Scuzzy; hardly omniscient of the facts.
Next will be words too hard to pronounce.

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It's unusual I'd botch a four letter word; usually I'm pretty conversant with those.

I found I type phonetically, and of course go off track with homonyms. Homophones. Not sure why that changed, over the years. Not that there's anything wrong, with that.  "Its/It's" is still the most frequently "mispelled" word, by the usage intended.

Ace; any word we acquired from the French is going to give us trouble; especially pari.

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Homonyms are words that are spelled the same and pronounced the same but with different meanings.
Homophones are pronounced the same, regardless of their spelling. I think.

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