hello everyone welcome to English with
Lucy now today's video is a little bit
different it's appropriate for both
English learners and native speakers
today I'm going to talk about words that
are notoriously difficult to spell so I
really don't think much more explanation
is needed let's get started so word
number one is a little bit of a weird
one yeah you got it
it is weird now we've been told time
after time after time I before E except
after C well not in this case and the
best way of remembering it is weird is a
weird word so it doesn't follow the rule
I've actually written it wrong so many
times that my iPhone autocorrect now
accepts weird with an IE it doesn't do
wonders for my reputation as an English
teacher number to accommodate now does
it have one C and two M's does it have
to season one M no it accommodates a lot
of letters in it so we've got two of
each letter and I always find this so
hard to remember that you can think
accommodate accommodates a lot of
letters in it okay number three my
favorite word for hangman can you guess
what it is
it's got no vowels in it apart from a
why ah its rhythm rhythm it's a great
word for hangman but only if you spell
it correctly I can never get those
letters in the right order luckily I
don't tend to play ho man on a daily
basis number four and this word can get
quite embarrassing if you spell it
incorrectly yes it is embarrass much
like with our second word accommodate
embarrass also has two of each consonant
double r and SS don't spell it wrong
because it will be embarrassing or is
that number 5 and 16 years ago this was
much more important than it is now it is
millenium and this one is as hard to
spell as it is to say millennium
Minnelli a millennium on it yeah it's
another culprit of double consonants
we've got a double L and a double n in
there millennium
millennium luckily we don't have another
millennium for another couple of hundred
years so we'll be okay for a while
number six one of my favorite words to
say liaison liaison and we always get
confused by that triple Val there ia
I I always want to miss out that final I
don't blame us for that spelling blame
it on the French number seven her ass
like embarrass it sounds like it should
have a double R and a double s but it
only has one R why well I think it's
quite fitting to harass you and the next
one maintenance maintenance people like
to put maintenance but in this word it's
not the case it is maintenance then we
have very important pronunciation
pronunciation
now often English folk will say
pronunciation
I've actually been accused of it a
couple of times on my pronunciation
videos but I think it's just a twang in
my accent that makes a nun sound like
noun non pronunciation pronunciation
yeah so another one with the verb not
fitting into the noun form to pronounce
pronunciation maintain maintenance
number ten and I really recommend that
you you remember this one it is oh I'm
on fire today it is recommend who would
have thought yes again do we have the
double consonants do we not in this case
we don't there's just one C and two M's
and it's one that I consistently get
wrong I managed to rely on spell check
for this one okay so those were my 10
words that are hard to spell and I'd
love to know if there are any more words
that you find it hard to spell put them
in the comments and have a lovely day if
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