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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5565 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 1 of 43 04 June 2012 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Bicycle
Weird Sheriff Pejorative (perjorative) Syllable (no idea) Other words with "y" and "i" are often a bit confusing too, like "hypocrite" Until my mid-late-thirties I always misspelled "forward" (foreward) but since one of the secretaries finally told me she was getting bored of correcting my letters, I can spell it now. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ReQuest Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5037 days ago 200 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 43 04 June 2012 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Read, read, read
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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4720 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 3 of 43 04 June 2012 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had some trouble with words like "definitely" and "simultaneously".
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| Pisces Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4627 days ago 143 posts - 284 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish*, French, SwedishC1, Esperanto Studies: German, Spanish, Russian | Message 4 of 43 04 June 2012 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | ||
Bicycle, hypocrite and syllable have a y because in Greek the roots have a upsilon. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4708 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 5 of 43 04 June 2012 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Parallel" always trips me up, I think because my brain really wants to end it with a double l like most English words
that end in l. Whenever I write the word by hand, the last half inevitably becomes this sad little scribble of sort of e- like, sort of l-like cursive loops. I had to backspace even as I was typing it just now. The word will probably plague me until the day I die. Edited by Hekje on 04 June 2012 at 5:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Pisces Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4627 days ago 143 posts - 284 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish*, French, SwedishC1, Esperanto Studies: German, Spanish, Russian | Message 6 of 43 04 June 2012 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Parallel was hard for me too, until I read somewhere "parallel has the double l in the middle of the word" and for some reason I remembered this.
I have most trouble with vowels in English, in words like 'independent'. At one point I wanted to spell a lot of words ending in -ent with -ant (I think influence from French). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4849 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 7 of 43 04 June 2012 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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'Pronunciation'. For some reason, I always write an 'ou' like in 'to pronounce'. It happens almost automatically.
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| Fenn Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4896 days ago 51 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 8 of 43 04 June 2012 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Necessarily.
I know there is a "c" in there somewhere. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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