Have you ever had to reach for the dictionary with word block and felt like kicking yourself when you found the result?<\/p>\n
I had this with “could” last week; for the life of me I “cud” not remember how to spell it and looked it up and booked an appointment for an Alzheimer’s test.<\/p>\n
It happens to all of us but the following are the ones I frequently come across:<\/p>\n
DIARRHEA<\/strong><\/p>\n D<\/strong>ash I<\/strong>n A R<\/strong>eal R<\/strong>ush, H<\/strong>urry or E<\/strong>lse A<\/strong>ccident <\/em><\/p>\n CONSCIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n Remember it as Science with a Con<\/p>\n DESERT or DESSERT<\/strong><\/p>\n The S<\/strong>ahara only has one S in it – Dess<\/strong>erts have SugarS<\/em><\/p>\n ECZEMA<\/strong><\/p>\n E<\/strong>ven C<\/strong>lean ZE<\/strong>alots MA<\/strong>y <\/strong>get spots <\/em><\/p>\n There is no X in this word – Simon Cowell has no Zits!<\/p>\n HAEMORRHAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n H<\/strong>elp, A<\/strong>ccident, EM<\/strong>ergency! – O<\/strong>ften R<\/strong>uins R<\/strong>outine H<\/strong>ospital A<\/strong>ppointments<\/em> –<\/p>\n don’t forget to add the G and E on the end!<\/em><\/p>\n POTASSIUM<\/strong><\/p>\n One T<\/strong>ea and two S<\/strong>ugars Please !<\/em><\/p>\n SUPERSEDE<\/strong><\/p>\n The only word in the English language to end in -sede; the rest are -cede.<\/p>\n THERE or THEIR<\/strong><\/p>\n Visualise directions for “there” – HERE and THERE!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n For their, think possession – The HEIR<\/strong>s inherited THEIR<\/strong> fortune<\/em><\/p>\n WEDNESDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n WE D<\/strong>o N<\/strong>ot E<\/strong>at S<\/strong>oup DAY<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n YOU’RE and YOUR<\/strong><\/p>\n You’re<\/strong> never going to get it right unless you use YOUR<\/strong> head!<\/em><\/p>\n With credit due to Judy Parkinson, author of “i before e (except after c)”<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever had to reach for the dictionary with word block and felt like kicking yourself when you found the result? I had this with “could” last week; for the life of me I “cud” not remember how to spell it and looked it up and booked an appointment for an Alzheimer’s test. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-resources","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supaproofread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supaproofread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supaproofread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supaproofread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supaproofread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supaproofread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supaproofread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supaproofread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supaproofread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}