What word can you NEVER spell correctly without using spellcheck?

[Ferrets are Cool]

Mine is Renaissance. I can attempt it, but must check to make sure it is correct.

[Stuart G]

1. Kliptomania???

[gab13by13]

2. Haleluiah.

[hlthe2b]

11. You got gipped on your spellcheck.

[Totally Tunsie]

16. Ummmmm...

Don't you mean "gypped"?

[hlthe2b]

21. I have the same spellcheck.

[MiHale]

3. Thier no, their...

Easy one but all my life it hangs in thier, sorry, their, crap there. There!

[Midnight Writer]

15. I was taught that the word "the" appears within the word "their". Helps me remember.

The whole "i before e" thing tends to foul me up.

[Effete Snob]

4. Duhbveert

[Chainfire]

5. I am a horrible speller

I have read thousands of books, so you would think that, in that process that I would have gotten spelling down, but nooooo. It is not only traditionally hard to spell words, but some rather simple ones too. Without auto correct I would be lost.

[Stuart G]

8. Join the "horrible spellers club"....I am a founding member..

...........For many years I taught in the Chicago Public Schools......"History"

from time to time, I misspelled words I wrote on the blackboard, *students corrected me"...

[Stuart G]

9. ....."it"....thank you..............................oops.."..thaannk U"

[mitch96]

14. Same here. No one told me spelling phonetically was wrong...uff

btw I spelled phonetically wrong..!
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[Chainfire]

17. We can all blame smart aleck Mr. Webster for our spelling problems.

Before he came along, there was no one "right" way to spell. Then there are the spelling "rules" like I before E except after C, sometimes, but not always....Us non-believer have problems with rules like that. Then there are the ones who want to control us; You know what I meant, but you quibble with the way I spelled it. (Fascist bastards)

My surname is a good example of multiple options for spelling. There are dozens of ways to spell it, but we all came from the same tree. Now the people who spell it with and E instead of an A don't claim the others.

[mitch96]

23. and And AND his partner..Merriam.. My Mom who's first language was not english

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said english is so confusing along with the spelling.
In Ukrainian and Slovak it's phonetic spelling..da?
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[vanlassie]

6. Restaurant

And lots of the time spell check leaves me wordless.

[Chainfire]

18. That is because it is a screwed up way of spelling it!

Sometimes I don't get close enough for spell check to guess what I am trying to write.

[KarenS]

7. emphysemia

oddly I spelled it correctly for this posting

I have it.

[DFW]

10. The

I should have watched more Sesame Street with my daughters while I had a chance..........

[nevergiveup]

12. spelcheck

[True Dough]

13. One that has long tripped me up

is liaison.

^^ Did I get it right?

[Totally Tunsie]

19. Definitely.

definitly? definately? Oops, that's my word!

[Polly Hennessey]

20. Believe it or not, it is believe.

[parkia00]

22. Sergent, Saparate...

enemal, manouver, soilder,