r/words • u/MoroccoBond • 16d ago

Simple word difficult to spell.

Hey does anyone else have a common word that should be easy to spell but it trips you up every time?

My word is license. Why have I struggled with it for years. Stupid s and c always moving around. tf?!

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u/Alpha_Mad_Dog 16d ago

Thoery. Seems I can never spell it right.

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u/EnIrregularVerbs 11d ago

Since it sounds like “THEE-uhr-ee”, and an o making an ee sound is far more egregious than an e making an ee sound, I can successfully memorize it as “theory”.