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

I’ve found myself working on a tricky civil engineering project in Scotland, and Every Single Time I write ”peat” I type it P-E-A-T-H-backspace.

Polymer or phosphate?

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As an Australian and sounding it out to myself more than a few times I would say its more die-OH-rhee-ah. But the fuck do I know?

I always had the worst time with the mess of vowels in "beautiful". Then in high school I had a crush on a girl named Bea. Thus was was born "Bea, u beautiful"

There are no rules. Only exceptions.

Oh, okay; the original comment put it as "roe," the penultimate syllable. That was what I found to be bizarre.

Me too which is why I literally sat here saying diarrhoea to myself for 5 minutes straight.

Necessary

I still don’t have a good trick to get it right on the first try.

I've had a big day so I haven't had time to respond to all of the comments, but this cracked me up so I have to explain now before sleep, haha. I'm so sorry for laughing. What I meant is just for the spelling of diarrhea vs diarrhoea.

However, I did spend a lot of time in regional Victoria waaaay out west (7 years) and they really did border on saying "diarr-roy-uh".. Or "diarr-ROYEE-uh". There's really no way of putting some Aussie pronunciations in to words. Maybe occa. When I first saw "naur", it was so odd, but it kinda works.

This is really good! I'm keeping this for when I have nieces and nephews to teach.

There are so many words that are squiggles under words when my documents are set to "English (Australia)".. Program vs programme, feces vs faeces (I swear I don't just talk about bodily functions all the time - it's part of my job).

I did write "candy" on one of my first Food Act Orders that I wrote here in AUS, and my boss wanted to look over them before I sent them out. She circled it in red and wrote "What is this". Granted, she was a very peculiar individual and I don't think she ever left her city to explore what was out there.

Oh, good one. I forgot that I used to say this as a kid!

Hmm... Might be a roundabout way, but occurrence could be that good things occur in threes... So 3 C's. I don't know what to do about the double R's though.

not me, but I also have aphantasia and no inner voice that I can hear so that may be why.