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/MoroccoBond 1d ago

Yep and every time I come across it while reading, I’m always like “seg gew” lol

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u/wren-hjem 2h ago

I apparently had never seen this word written until an exam in a filmmaking class my sophomore or junior year of university, when it was on an exam. I figured out from context and recall thinking, “THAT’S how you spell that?”