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

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

To be honest, the only reason I can spell that word is because I got a Jeopardy! pen after I tried out for the game of the same name, one year. It was a good pen, and it lasted me about two years.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Would it help to know that it's just like leopardize, only with a 'j'? Or is that too silly? 'Course, now I wonder what sort of beast a jeopard would be. In Swedish and possibly German, it's a cheetah, only it's spelled with a 'g'. Which means, I suppose, that etymologists ought to consider the possibility that to jeopardize someone means putting them in front of a cheetah.

[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.