What are some words that you have or had troubles spelling and made up funny ways to help remember them?

I'm convinced most people learning English have at some point resolved to pronouncing wed-nes-day and be-a-u-ti-ful in their head just to remember the spelling.

The nice thing about my native language is that it's pretty phonetically consistent with its spelling, so whenever I needed to remember the spelling of a word in english I could just remember how it would sound when said in my native language :3

What's your native language? English has so many rules and exceptions.

I just thought of another one... Yogurt and yoghurt. And yes, I definitely do the Wed-nes-day thing, too!

When I was a kid, i was taught "Oh U Lonely Duck", for Would, Could, Should.

Lithuanian :3

I also grew up in Canada, I do my spelling freestyle. Half my apps use my system settings so they use the Canadian dictionary, and the other half seems to default to US spelling

Sometimes I'd look up the spelling on a word, and you'd see the charts that show US, UK, and Canadian spelling for words. Usually the Canadian entry would show both other versions as acceptable.

At the end of the day, as long as you're understood, it doesn't really matter

Embrace the red squigglies, follow your heart and don't let your computer tell you what to do

My language is overly complicated in many aspects, but I do appreciate the simplicity of spelling

Connect-I-cut

Separate has A Rat in it.

And separate is what a paring knife does

If you're a good typist there's a trick:


Picture a keyboard, then a pair of hands coming up to the home row. Then imagine the hands typing the word.

"Muscle memory" and how humans use written language means we 100% can type a word (spelled correctly) but not consciously remember the exact order of the letters. To our conscious brains, the exact order just isn't really important. But typing is like riding a bike, if you're good at you're not consciously typing every letter.

Like, when riding a bike you think "turn left" and your body pulls off a bunch of complicated movements and sleight adjustments. Think "type antidisestablishmentarianism" and your fingys do the spelling.

What's really useful with that trick, is using it to remember passwords and other "nonsense" strings. Just imagine yourself typing it over and over until you trick your unconscious mind into memorizing the sequence.

Wed-NES-day

It took me way too long to figure out what you meant and how this would be a help. I first thought it must be a song