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
OnceMassacre
― 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".
beginning
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 September 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
i mean surely not
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
segueliaisonsupersede
― fetter, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 07:00 (four years ago) link
judgementalso, 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
podcast
― estela, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link
astigmatismmirageaskanceethereal
― 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
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)
― 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