words you can never get right - makes you feel retarded

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Seperate and Sorceror. They just look wrong when I spell them right.
 
Publically :disagree:. Publicly :agree:.

When I read it, it looks wrong but when I reread my own text I feel like an ESL because I always write ‘publically’. Surely english can just evolve so I don’t have to think about it.
Toxicly is wrong, toxically is right.
Angelicly is wrong. Angelically is right.
Patch it.
 
Separate and desperate. Have to let either browser or phone autocorrect it , sure as hell can't spell either of them correctly on my own. Think it's the weird spelling they have .
 
Receipt and restaurant (along with a bunch already posted here)

Fuck the French and their borrowed words.

On the complete inverse side, words that I specifically go out of my way to pronounce properly are cavalry and Calvary.
 
Refrigerator and vacuum are weird to spell.

I cannot for the life of me say rivalry the way it is spelled. Either the first or second r ends up sounding like a w.
 
Lose/loose and all the other words following a similar pattern.

I often use either interchangeably, but I always feel retarded knowing I am probably wrong.
 
Most of the ie/ei words fuck me up. Whoever came up with "I before E except after C" is a fucking liar and singlehandedly responsible for making me look like an illiterate retard.
 
Plenty of ghoti in the sea. I can almost never spell the word  fish right.

gh: → /f/ (as in "enough" or "tough")
o: → /ɪ/ (as in "women")
ti: → /ʃ/ (as in "nation" or "motion")
 
Biggest one for me is "definitely". Somehow unless I am really paying attention I'll always write "definently", I just can't make it stick in my brain to write it correctly like other words and I'll either have to change it in proof-reading or more annoyingly just miss it.
 
Ozul dijo:
This word follows the 'i' before 'e' except after 'c' rule so if you can remember that mnemonic it might help. :)
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Fair enough, although I never trusted that mnemonic since it’s useless for caffeine and several others.
 
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