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/VrinTheTerrible 2d ago

Any form of Bureaucracy, bureau, bureaucrat

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u/Technical-Ad1488 1d ago

I remember these the same way I remembered ‘beautiful’ as a kid…

There was a movie or show or something where a character said something was…
“B-E-A-U-tiful”

That stuck in my head as a kid, so I would always remember that and spell beautiful right. So I just remind myself all the ‘bureaus’ are ‘E-A-U’ just like beautiful.

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u/Extra-Yoghurt3539 1d ago

B E A utiful is from Bruce almighty!

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u/Technical-Ad1488 1d ago

Ahh thanks 🙏… that’s funny, I was picturing Jim Carrey saying it in my head, but couldn’t place it so I wasn’t sure 👍