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Boatswain:

It ain't the spelling so much as the pronounciation. Jesus, now it does look ridiculous. Both, I guess.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link

wainscoating. Its the way it is pronounced I guess. OK its a Python joke, I couldn't think of anything else.

Though once I was convinced "laundry" was not the word for the place in which one washes ones smalls. I thnk I'd decided it was "launrdroom" and couldnt shake that out of my head.

Mind you, this coming from me, the person who once stared at my phone a full ten minutes trying to remember the number for directory assistance.

That number being 013.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link

pumpkin

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

WHAT'S THE NUMBER FOR 911??? </Homer>

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Hahah yeah yeah shutup ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link

tongue

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link

on the title track of the fiery furnaces' blueberry boat, eleanor pronounces "starboard" wrong. (the character is a sailor, ferchrissakes!) but yeah, if i'd never heard the word spoken aloud i'd mispronounce it too -- it's gotta be some archaic middle-english thing.

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link

chagrin

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

almost

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't take too kindly to words that look at me wrong.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:51 (nineteen years ago) link

wainscoating

It's actually "wainscoting" (that one I didn't know until I looked it up or "wainscotting" (that one I did)

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link

lead and led

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 19 November 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link

ceiling

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Friday, 19 November 2004 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link

entrepeneurism

― erik, Friday, 19 November 2004 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link

asphalt

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

minute

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

separate

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

flit

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

guard

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Throatwobbler Mangrove

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

albeit

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

the word "sword" has always bugged me.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

a capella
privilege

i probably spelled both of those wrong.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

gubernatorial

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

definite
dude

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

ONE

― z "R" s (Z S), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link

comptroller

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link

If you were in a spelling bee and you had to spell ONE, without ever seeing it before, you would be completely helpless.

― z "R" s (Z S), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link

rhythm

― myspace password secretary (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link

drinkability

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link

CUPBOARD, ffs

― collardio gelatinous, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link

vacuum!

― carahNYC, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link

rough bough cough dough

― Disco/Very (Roz), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link

went

― snoball, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

sandwich.

― what U cry 4 (jim), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

obfuscate

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

lots

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

abstruse

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link

profligate

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

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

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