It is WENDsday...

Happy Happy Hump Day.

Hump Day sounds so naughty. I remember snickering at hearing it as a kid – probably because I had just learned the alternate meaning of the wore ‘hump’. Even though I thought I was being gross saying it, I definitely used it more often than the actual ‘W’ word. I struggled with that word. And before the fabulous discovery of spellchecker, I would use phrases like, “the day that falls after Tuesday”, “the day before Thursday”.

In my defense, the consonants are all jumbled. The‘d’ and the ‘n’ are clearly in the wrong place!

This got me thinking of other words that have plagued me through my life. And one jumps right to the forefront: license. This mutilation of consonants didn’t actually cause me strife until it was pointed out to me by a Driver’s Ed teacher in my 15th year.

IsterMay AetherRay (Pig Latinized as to protect his identity), said to the class on the very first day, “this word is very often misspelled, I will dock points from your tests if you misspell it.”

This one statement scarred me for life. I will forever second guess myself when it comes to writing it. Even now, I typed it in and ran it through spellchecker. I need a handy pneumonic device (see I can actually spell, I just typed pneumonic without stuttering).

Other words are: maintenance (maintainance???), receive (I totally know “i” before “e”, but for some reason this one always causes me to pause), even though (I like to make this one word).

This site shows a list of the 100 most misspelled words. It makes me feel like part of a phonetically challenged club when I see that 3 of the words I mentioned are on the list.

What are some words you will admit to misspelling?

P.S. I am working on Part Two of the Cabin trip... I hope you are not holding your breaths! If you are holding your breath, stop it… I mean it, purple skin does not look good on you