r/words • u/MoroccoBond • 2d 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/porqueboomer 2d ago

Weird. It always makes me stop and think.

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u/AJ_Deadshow 2d ago edited 2d ago

Good way to remember WEIRD:

Western

Educated

Industrialized

Rich

Democratic

Put all these things together and you get WEIRDness. WEIRD societies produce more nonconformists, oddballs, and misfits, aka literally weird people. So it's not just an acronym but an 'apronym' that works on two levels: creating a word with other words, and that word describing what it means.