Which word(s) do u find it difficult to spell?

[mara_ce]

exercise

I tend to add an extra c: `excercise´ like excellent and exception.

[emsr2d2]

Occurred.

[BobK]

exercise

I tend to add an extra c: `excercise´ like excellent and exception.

Perhaps it'd be helpful to remember the pair exert/excerpt (/ɪg'zɜ:t/ and /'eksɜ:t/ [if you haven't met the second word, you may not know that the p is silent - though many NS pronounce it]. When you take exercise you exert yourself.

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[5jj]

Perhaps it'd be helpful to remember the pair exert/excerpt (/ɪg'zɜ:t/ and /'eksɜ:t/ [if you haven't met the second word, you may not know that the p is silent - though many NS pronounce it].

The Cambridge and the Longman pronunciation dictionaries give pronunciations of 'excerpt' only with a /p/. So do I.

[BobK]

Thanks - I should obviously read more!

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[birdeen's call]

"Referred".

"Reffered" looks very bad and I always notice it instantaneously but it's often what I type first.

"Instantaneously" is definitely very difficult. I have to look it up every time I type it.