First, let me say that most of the time, I think spelling is easy.
There have been a few words in my life that wouldn't "stick" but I've figured out tricks to get them in my head. For instance: Pend Oreille.
That's the river that flows past the town of Priest River, so when I was an agent I used to have to refer to it any time we had a listing on the river. I never could remember if it was Oreille or Orielle...
Then one day I remembered that all along the steep banks of Pend Oreille Lake there are old mine shafts. Mines produce ore... So Pend Oreille.
OK. Got that one.
Now I have another one, and sometimes I garble it so thoroughly that spell check can't even figure out what I was trying to write.
The word I simply can't spell is BUREAUCRAT.
I can't figure out any trick to make myself remember it, so I've come up with a new plan. I printed it on a piece of paper and stuck it to the bottom of my monitor so I'll see it every time I look at the computer. And I've got a chunk of scratch paper laying by the keyboard - where I stop to write the darned thing every now and then.
Somehow, some way, I WILL learn to spell bureaucrat.
So now... share. Tell me:
Do YOU have any stubborn words that won't stick in your head?
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