Words that look wrong

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"Now"

Just look at it. It seems wrong.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"quim"

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Tucson

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

'enough'

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Condoleezza

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

why

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"from"

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

the

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

whenever i have to write a word (besides my name or it, and, the, etc.) more than 25-30 times in a paper or whatever, it starts to look awful and unnatural.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

'Anthony Wilson'

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

coypu

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

misled

― j c (j c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Bush.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

bruwnuctmfert

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

also:

humbiopsychogarratosis

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

acme

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

acne

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

almanac

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

manoeuvre

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

touche!:) (with accent.)

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

foreign

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

heamorrhage

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Yep, that definitely looks wrong.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

hehe xxxpost

(not "hehe" as a suggestion)

diarrhoea

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Haemorrhage?

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

queue

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

hoonja doonja

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

liaison

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

thier

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

staring

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

stingy

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Wizdome

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

environment

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

haha I spelled it wrong up there! It is haemorrhage.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

havoc

naive

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

squirm

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

amok
I learned yesterday that this comes from Malaysia.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

genre

bookkeeper

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

facade

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

awry

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

government

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

was

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

economic

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

chute

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

lieutenant

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

segue

― Kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link

segue doesn't look wrong to me. seg - ue.

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

i cringe whenever i see it spelled "segueway."

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

weird

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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perfunctory

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link

there's lots of them!

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link

numskull

― StanM, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link

Speaking of the Fiery Furnaces... "fiery." Why not "firey"?

Also judgment (some people spell it that way), wilful, sacrilege.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link

queue, thwart, banal, blurt

― carahNYC, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Lopadotemakhoselakhogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleiolagōiosiraiobaphētraganopterýgōn always seemed pretty fishy to me.

― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link

"stomach" looked completely wrong to me as a kid for a long time. I remember being baffled over a Peanuts strip with the word in it. I knew what it was saying, and what it meant, but I couldn't reconcile the "ach" part which I thought had something to do with "ache".

― akm, Thursday, 13 November 2008 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link

fuchsia

― Maria :D, Thursday, 13 November 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link

sugar

― moley, Thursday, 13 November 2008 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Pet Rescue
Petrescu

― StanM, Monday, 17 November 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link

toupée

Doesn't exactly count because it's french, but...

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 17 November 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link

― M.V., Monday, 17 November 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link

wednesday

― DI HERE (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 17 November 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link

etiolate

― Aimless, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link

i was just thinking this about "awhile" yesterday. i was telling someone when the correct time was to use "awhile" was (as opposed to "a while" "for a while" etc) and i looked it over and was just like...wait, that can't be how it's spelled. "awhile"? wtf is that?
obv i knew that it was spelled that way, but i guess some words just look weird sometimes

― Kevin Keller, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link

anyway, i think people are veering toward "words that are spelled unconventially and/or difficultly" rather than "words that look wrong"
great thread idea though

― Kevin Keller, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link

gorge

― Aimless, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Vegetables

― polyphonic, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Once
Massacre

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link

quash

― henry s, Monday, 17 November 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link

eighth (h-t-h or t-h-t?)

― not a Georgia peach but a Maryland crab (j.lu), Monday, 17 November 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link

teh

― M.V., Monday, 17 November 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link

thousandth

― henry s, Monday, 17 November 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link

lustre

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Friday, 21 November 2008 06:04 (fifteen years ago) link

Neither 'focused' nor 'focussed' look right, but both are acceptable

grotesque

― James Morrison, Friday, 21 November 2008 08:00 (fifteen years ago) link

tranquillity

― J****y Cash (Dave from Norwich), Friday, 21 November 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link

gauge

― the next grozart, Friday, 21 November 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link

"misled" on the money. I always end up pronouncing it "Mild" of "missiled" or even "mizzled".

― the next grozart, Friday, 21 November 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

beginning

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 September 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link

i mean surely not

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 September 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link

available

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 16 September 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link

every time anyone on TV or the radio says 'civilisation', I swear I hear it as 'cilivisation', every single time

― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 16 September 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link

Seven - Not so much that it looks wrong, as that there shouldn't be a two syllable word in the first ten digits.

(Don't get me started on the letter C.)

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 06:06 (four years ago) link

busing

― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 06:07 (four years ago) link

In my last post, I was going to put the letter C in single quotes, but then all I could see was Charlie Brown. 'C'

Even worse if you underline it. 'c'

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link

worng

― j., Tuesday, 17 September 2019 06:25 (four years ago) link

segue
liaison
supersede

― fetter, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 07:00 (four years ago) link

judgement
also, judgment

― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 07:38 (four years ago) link

I've yet to welcome 'tyre' and 'pitta' into my life.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 07:40 (four years ago) link

misled

― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:42 (four years ago) link

chili

― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:42 (four years ago) link

podcast

― estela, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link

astigmatism
mirage
askance
ethereal

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:57 (four years ago) link

prostrate

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link

two years pass...

djing

― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link

Pronounced like 'djent'?

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link

misled
― frame casual (dog latin)

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link

Tortoise had a song called Djed which I assume was the past tense of Djing. Had a friend who pronounced it phonetically though.

― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link

i always pronounced it phonetically and never until this moment thought to pronounce it as the past tense of DJ. huh. will have to think about it

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link

Always pronounced it 'Jed' in my, uh, head. Hadn't even considered the other option.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link

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