These are the hardest-to-spell words in the English language

CNN ^ | 21 May 2019 | Mallory Hughes

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"...Benny Hill style.

[moovova]

The older I get the more I struggle with spelling.

I had trouble spelling IBM the other day...

[relictele]

It’s hilarious to watch a parade of home-schooled Indian kids on the stage. Another black eye for expensive, futile public education.

The spelling bee issues a finite list of words so it’s possible to cover all the bases, which these kids do, memory lapses notwithstanding. It’s a bit silly to focus on obscure eyechart type words that are never used in everyday communication.

[rjsimmon]

These are the hardest-to-spell words in the English language

Not one of the words listed is English.

[null and void]

It was more balanced that usual, did you catch:

Schwärmerei [schvair-muh-RYE]: excessive unbridled enthusiasm or attachment (Hillary or Obama fans)

hmmm?

[Larry Lucido]

Schwärmerei [schvair-muh-RYE]: excessive unbridled enthusiasm or attachment

[762X51]

They forgot Tchoutacabouffa River. River is not that hard but the other part is.

[null and void]

English does not contain accent or diacritical marks.

It usually doesn't, please coöperate when it does.

BOOM, touché!

[DUMBGRUNT]

The older I get the more I struggle with spelling.

Yes, I have difficulty spelling my name on the bottom of numerous tax forms each year.
Very hard for me.

I’ve been thinking of asking the accountant to do it, so I do not have to look at the forms.

[outofsalt]

"English does not contain accent or diacritical marks. Nor does it contain spanish, hebrew or other stuff."

Did you not notice the, "CNN" origin? It's like the, "trans" prefix; one should assume the opposite of anything that follows.

[bert]

-—The older I get the more I struggle with spelling.——

Remember, the rule of 65

After reaching 65 years of age, minor spelling and grammatical errors can be ignored

[okie 54]

For MSM this would be honesty, integrity, and moralistic

[nwrep]

Mallory Hughes:

[simpson96]

bookmark

[sparklite2]

banal and often shoddy religious art (almost all religious art)
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Well, that's a little harsh. Didn't you see ...?

[Drawsing]

A few common spelling errors and wrong words in phrases.

Take it for granite. Should be ‘granted’.

Superseed - should be supersede.

Heart wrenching - should be ‘rending’ meaning tearing.

Tow the line - should be ‘toe’ - put your toe on the line.

Lightening - should be lightning - electricity in the sky.

Pour over - should be ‘pore’ as when you are studying a document.

Step on the breaks - should be ‘brakes’ - the things that make the car stop.

Peak my interest - should be pique.

[Buttons12]

covfefe!

[gandalftb]

Could we just agree on how to spell “cancel”?

[piasa]

Just getting the Freeper who puts “braking” in the key words of breaking news articles to use the correct word would be a start.

[going hot]

Truth is not part of their vocabulary.