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

submitted 1 day ago by StickyDango@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Growing up in Canada, I had to contend with learning two different spellings and pronunciations for words like "schedule", "colour", "omelette", "zed" vs "zee", "-ise" vs "-ize", and so on and so forth, so I had to come up with some little tricks to remember how to spell things. Sometimes I'd put on a mental Quebecois or English accent.

Other ones like diarrhea was "Die-err-HEE-uh", and now that I'm in Australia, it's most definitely "Die-err-HOE-uh". 😂

I also recite the ABCs more often than I should. I know a lot of you do, too.

What are some ways that you thought of to help you remember how to spell things? Any language counts.

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[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I can't believe Australians pronounce "diarrhea" in this way. There is literally no "o!" Are you serious?

[–] Memnochian@aussie.zone 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Memnochian@aussie.zone 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] StickyDango@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

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.