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What's something that you mess up frequently enough that you should know better, but you continue to do it anyway? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by crank0271@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My example: rinsing spicy sauces and peppers off in my sink so the spiciness aerosolizes and I realize when it makes me cough. Every. Damn. Time.

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[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How to spell rhythm.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Jamaican people have got the right idea spelling it riddim

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rhythm helps your two hips move. I have to say it to myself every time.

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Hey, that's great. Thanks.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never had an issue with that word, but God damnit if "occasion" doesn't get me just about every time. "Is it 1 C and 2 S's, or 2 C's and 2 S's...?" I remember after writing it down wrong, of course. Stupid English.

[–] Eril@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not occasion, but for "necessary" I like "Never Eat Cake, Eat Sweet Salad And Remain Young"

[–] VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For necessary I always think 1 collar, 2 sleeves. This has rattled through my head every time I’ve spelled it the last 20 or so years at this point.

Now if only I could remember it’s different not differant 😣

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I always just mentally pronounced it neck-essary to remind myself to only use a single C. It never occurred (thanks, spell check) to me to relate it to a physical object.

Mine, of course, is "ocurr" and its iterations.

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Especially and adjacent for me, I even have to google them cuz offline spell checkers never get them right.