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[magistrate]

Words I will never, never be able to type right on the first try:

• sheriff (I really want there to be two "r"s!)
• bizarre (I want there to be two "z"s!)
• traveling (Two "l"s!)
• traveler (I think both "traveler" and "traveller" are technically correct somewhere, and I can never remember which it is I'm supposed to be using. But I tend to use a bastard mashup of BrE and AmerE spellings anyway, because "sabre" and "theatre" just look better, while "manoeuvre" is a crime against language and good sense.)
• jewelry (I usually try for "jewelery" or "jewlery", and sometimes I convince myself that there are either two "l"s or only one "e", somehow.)
• ambiguity (I always feel like there's an "e" involved, for some reason.)
• terrific (I want there to be to "f"s.)

Lesson:

• I will, with no ambiguity, never make it in this world as a bizarre but terrific traveling jewelry sheriff.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

Travelling and traveller are both the correct UK spellings! And we also use 'jewellery', if that looks better to you.

[magistrate]

MY GOD DOES IT. I'm using "jewellery" from now on.

Or, more likely, I'm going to try to retrain myself to type that, and just end up confusing myself further.



This would all be less of a problem if I hadn't somehow tripped and fallen into writing a sprawlingbigplotfic where American people are constantly traveling and talking to sheriffs and enduring bizarre events. At least there's no plot-important jewellery I need to worry about. Yet.

[onepageatatime]

I am with you on sheriff. I can never remember whether R or F is doubled or both or neither. I also have the BrE/AmerE spelling issues, especially since I grew up in Canada which mostly uses BrE spellings (with some exceptions) and then had to unlearn that in my 30s when I moved to the US.

[magistrate]

I think part of my issue with both "sheriff" and "bizarre" is that I want the more word-central consonants to be doubled, and they aren't.

I was born and raised in America, and I have no idea where my preferences for some British spellings comes from. I might have gotten "sabre" from Redwall, but "theatre", I have no idea. But I will metaphorically die on this hill.

...oddly enough, I tend to swap back and forth on "centre" / "center". I'm sure there's something which determines when I use which, but, •shrugs•.