What are some words that you have or had troubles spelling and made up funny ways to help remember them?

I'm convinced most people learning English have at some point resolved to pronouncing wed-nes-day and be-a-u-ti-ful in their head just to remember the spelling.

Wed-NES-day

When trying to remember how to spell Oracle I always have to recite

One
Rich
Asshole
Called
Larry
Ellison

You would think working in IT for over 20 years I would remember how to spell one of the worst databases ever.

The nice thing about my native language is that it's pretty phonetically consistent with its spelling, so whenever I needed to remember the spelling of a word in english I could just remember how it would sound when said in my native language :3

When I was a kid, i was taught "Oh U Lonely Duck", for Would, Could, Should.

I also grew up in Canada, I do my spelling freestyle. Half my apps use my system settings so they use the Canadian dictionary, and the other half seems to default to US spelling

Sometimes I'd look up the spelling on a word, and you'd see the charts that show US, UK, and Canadian spelling for words. Usually the Canadian entry would show both other versions as acceptable.

At the end of the day, as long as you're understood, it doesn't really matter

Embrace the red squigglies, follow your heart and don't let your computer tell you what to do

If you're a good typist there's a trick:

Picture a keyboard, then a pair of hands coming up to the home row. Then imagine the hands typing the word.

"Muscle memory" and how humans use written language means we 100% can type a word (spelled correctly) but not consciously remember the exact order of the letters. To our conscious brains, the exact order just isn't really important. But typing is like riding a bike, if you're good at you're not consciously typing every letter.

Like, when riding a bike you think "turn left" and your body pulls off a bunch of complicated movements and sleight adjustments. Think "type antidisestablishmentarianism" and your fingys do the spelling.

What's really useful with that trick, is using it to remember passwords and other "nonsense" strings. Just imagine yourself typing it over and over until you trick your unconscious mind into memorizing the sequence.

Field and shield

EVERYTIME

If anyone has a good trick for occasion and occurrence, I'm all ears. They're worse than USB-A ports for me.

Separate has A Rat in it.

Connect-I-cut

I always had the worst time with the mess of vowels in "beautiful". Then in high school I had a crush on a girl named Bea. Thus was was born "Bea, u beautiful"

I can't spell anything without a dictionary or, these days a spell check. I usually know where the vowels go, so I cycle through them until the word "looks" right, or the red squiggle goes away.

I don't like grammerly bc I know how to write, it's just the spelling that vexes me.

I can't believe Australians pronounce "diarrhea" in this way. There is literally no "o!" Are you serious?

Not sure if this actually counts for the question, but I had a friend who called the Hittites “hitty-titties” when we had a Bible class together, as a way to remember them for a test. I still think of that whenever I come across the word Hittite.

For medication names, I'll pronounce every vowel like the letter name, so A is "eigh", E is "ee", I is "eye", O is "Oh", U is "you" and Y is "why".

So Ibuprofen is "eye-byoo-proh-feen"

Necessary

I still don’t have a good trick to get it right on the first try.

Not something I have trouble with spelling, but a common typo I noticed I make is spelling "check" with a 'h' instead of the 'k' for some reason.