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June 3rd, 2011
05:20 AM ET
Question of the Day: What word can't you spell?
(CNN) - Pennsylvania teen Sukanya Roy was tantalizingly close to the Scripps National Spelling Bee's final rounds in previous years. Now, she's taken the prize.
Sukanya, 14, won the annual spell-off Thursday night with the word cymotrichous, which means having wavy hair, topping 274 other contestants over two days and 20 rounds.
American Morning wants to know: What word can't you spell?
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a majority of people cannot spell/differentiate between:
There
Their
They're
I love spelling...there arent many words i cant spell...but its words like dismal and decimal tht gt me mixed up depending on the pronunciation...my fav word to spell is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis...look it up 🙂
Regarding Lisa Bloom's book concerning the dumbing down of American women,they all want to aspire to be Paris Hiltons and Jessica Simpsons,how sad,I'm not sure Paris can even read. She surely cannot carry on a sensible conversation as validated on TV recently.
"Their". Sometimes I put the "i" before the "e" even though I know how to spell the word.
Is it "mabe" or "maybe"?
If fridge has a d, why not refridgerator?
excersize
Maintenance
Wichita, KS
Welldone cnn
Alie velsie and christine roman really make my day,keep up the good work guys.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
I had a lot of trouble learning this word and it is still hard for me to spell.
Its even harder to say it 5 times fast
Inconvenience
canceled
airports seem to get this one wrong all the time
I can't spell inconvienient
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to have to spell this word out would certainly be atrocious !
I have a minor in Psychology yet I have so much trouble spelling "Schizophrenia". I have to spellcheck it every time.
Madison Warnock
Ottawa
Itinerary – I always want to spell it itenerary
Maintenance. Had to google it.
negosheate (negotiate) It is a really tough one to mess up when you are in sales!
I just can't *decside* which word is the most difficult for me.
hors'dourves
The word 'tchotchke' or 'tchotcke'.
Why do we need a kooky word like this to describe something supposed to be insignificant.
Can't get it right every time.
I still have to remind myself to spell the word "judgment" without an e between the g and the m.
But wake up, America, we can't spell hard words like its, their and – horror of horrors – we now forget to make plurals. Just during the last week I read a memo about "secretary's" for secretaries and a sign at Radio Shack about "our manager's want to ..."
And our teachers (should I be crude and misspell the word?) are supposed to teach our kids calculus and physics AP!
drora.
Poor spellers of the world untie!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...I think....!
That word always makes me smile 🙂
I often misspell the word 'Connoisseur'.
Tamara from Hartford,CT
The word that always gets me – I always have to look it up – is "hors' dourves". I guess I need to study French.
I've never been able to spell:
conscience
Until I learned con + science
Hey Guys, *Necessary* is the word that always trips me up!
Have a good morning!
i can't spell anything not the word anything but literally every word 🙂
If the internet has taught me anything, it's that over half of America cannot spell they're, there and their.
I can not spell potatoe.
I can never spell entrepreneur. It sounds more difficult than it is but I still can't spell it.
In the 3rd grade, I misspelled the word "guess" in my school spelling bee. 25 years later, I still fear inverting the "u" and "e", causing me to very carefully spell it out each time!
Niave? Naive? it should be spelled: Nieve.
Spell check is turning us into dummies!!
I can never figure out how to spell "Yayer"!
I ask myself that question all the time. I don't think there is one!
I was stranded without spell check needing to spell yacht. Went with yaught. imbarassing or is it embarrising or is it.....???
guiena pig
has always been a personal challenge
jour d'oeuvre
My word is flauccinauccinihilipilification. The longest word in English.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
As a music teacher, I find many of my students have trouble with the word "rhythm."
Repukelican – I can't seem to spell THAT ONE.
occasion (I think)
A tie between guarantee, Albuquerque, and supercalifragilisticesbialidociuos.
immunoelectrophoretically
Antidisestablishmentarianism ,,, Meaning,, Breaking away from the Catholic Church I think?
People have a lot of trouble spelling:
restaurant
separate
receipt
receive
definition
Hardest short word to spell if you don't know it in my opinion: phlegm
I can't spell most of them because I'm dyslexic.
flem...