Words I Cannot Spell, #17

[swan_tower]

Jeapordize Jeopordize Jeopardize.

I rarely make use of Wordperfect's little "is this the word you're looking for?" box, but man, I need it for that one. Every time.

Comments

[chrisondra.livejournal.com]

I do strange little things to remember how to spell words like that. For jeopardize, I'd probably be like "it doesn't repeat a vowel until the end" since you know the first and last vowels are e. Abdomen was one of my bane words until I learned it doesn't repeat any vowels (I used to misspell it abdoman all the time.)

Conscious, the s and c in the middle are on opposite sides from each other as the C and s at the beginning and end.

Versatile, which has been one of my recent banes, only repeats the e.

Spelling can be such a pain.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I'm more likely to do it by deliberately mispronouncing the word: "friend" was "fry-end" in my head for years in elementary school, and this one will be jee-oh-PARD-ize until I get it right.

It also helps that I have a strong background in Latin; I'm not likely to get "conscious" wrong so long as I remember it's based on the root verb scire. But that only works on words for which I know the roots.

[chrisondra.livejournal.com]

::grins:: Jee-oh-pard-ize. That's awesome. I'm sure I did that in grade school. My new method is strange and complicated, but it works for me, anyway! Hey, after talking about the word this much, you just might never spell it wrong again!