GUEST BLOG—By
Laura Hale Brockway, PR Daily blog writer—As writers, editors and readers, we
are all above-average spellers. We’re
the pros others call for spelling advice; we’re the ones who kick butt at Words
with Friends; we’re the ones who remember the spelling rules we learned in
elementary school.
And yet, sometimes even we
get stumped and make spelling mistakes.
I’m guilty of misspelling
words. Recently, I had to double-check
the spelling of “inoculate.” I could
have sworn there were two N’s in that word.
As “they” say, admitting
you have a problem is the first step.
So, yes, there are words that we can and sometimes do misspell. Here are 50 tricky ones:
Absence, accommodate,
barbarous, bellwether, camaraderie, cantaloupe, cellophane, coolly, daiquiri,
Dalmatian, decaffeinated, deterrence, doughnut, dumbbell, embarrass, fiery,
fluorescent, handkerchief, harass, heinous, hindrance, idiosyncrasy, inoculate,
jewelry, lightning (as in an electrical storm; lightening one’s hair is another
matter).
Liquefy, loneliness,
maneuver, memento, minuscule, mischievous, noticeable, nuisance, occasionally,
occurrence, pastime, perseverance, possession, publicly, recede, reminiscence,
resemblance, sacrilegious, strenuous, supersede, susceptible, temperamental,
unanimous, vengeance and withdrawal.
Author: Ms. Brockway is an
Austin, Texas-based medical writer and editor.
She is also the author of the writing and editing blog, Impertinent Remarks.
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