Challenge! Presidents' Day International - Part 1

[kia]

And speaking of difficult and fun words with double letters, I think I am going to add the words bookkeeper and beekeeper!

[reprieve]

I just discovered one that is very difficult for me: cappuccino. Those double p's and c's always come out wonky.

[kia]

Sounds good, reprieve! I'm also going to add coffee. Ah, the things we love with double letters...

[kia]

Added Tennessee.

Yeah, I keep adding words too.

[everybodylovesbacon]

A few more for the list:

pneumonia
liltingly
synonymously
dizzyingly
bungle
bugle
etymologically
rhythmically
highlighter
philologically

[kia]

Ok, added.

[A.J. Rosati]

gaminesque
gastriloquist
These words are terrible to write and I though they could all fit in with these misfit words being gathered,

gerontocracy
gibbet
gleeb
berge
bilge
boggart
brigantine
brigue
qigong
quiquagenarian
quinquagesimal
quinquennium
deambulatory
dacalcomania
decrudescence
lautenclavicymbel

[Mr. JW]

For me, the troublesome words are those with strings of several straight consonants, like:

strings
straight
straightening
incorporated
government (that r-m-n string is a killer)
pronunciation

There are probably more, but these come to mind.

[fountainpenkid]

schism just annoys me.
sub poena wouldn't be so bad if we didn't screw up Latin pronunciation! (it doesn't bother me anyway)

the most visceral reaction comes for me in the form of boo-berries, a childish pronunciation of blueberries, one used in 1970s American T.V commercials for cereal. just writing that made me twinge and shiver.

i feel that thinking further might end up being dishonest, because i am already finding that i create a false reactions upon thinking about some words...it is easy to convince yourself that you abhor a word, when you really just created that abhorrence at that moment. the mind is a dangerous place.

[fountainpenkid]

oh...wait. I did think of one more...egress it sounds to me like someone saying "egrets" with a gay lisp or something and it really annoys me.

[Snargle]

A particularly ugly combination for me is the name of my state of residence: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Particularly is particularly tricky also!

[odd_soul]

For some reason, I have trouble with words that have an s and then an ascender. Examples:

substrate
stratosphere
stealthy

Also, I have issues with r's. Examples:

arbitrary
surrogate
rearrange
resurrect

And double c's:

accent
accost
eccentric

And I don't like using the following capital letters, because I can never seem to make them look nice: D, H, I, L, N, O, Q, S, U, X, Y, Z. Sigh!

Love this challenge, by the way! I love how many crazy words have been mentioned so far. Looking forward to part 2.

[Andytk33]

I just signed up to give you guys this nice sentence that I like!

Domminique and Emmanuelle Pick-pocketed, defiantly and definitely, Marrissa's Dodecyclphosphorycholine-d solution and replaced it with a solution of Desmethylrachlopride and Salicylic acid.

Hard words, mostly due to repetitive letters:

Domminique
Emmanuelle
Pick-pocketed
defiantly and definitely (Always get mixed up with these)
Marrissa's - 2 r's, 2 a's and 3 s' (2 r's because she is Spanish and her two friends are french, they are all girls :-p)
Dodecyclphosphorycholine-d (lots of letters, 4 o's, 3 c's, 2 y's, 2 p's, 2 h's, 2 d's etc... - its a chemical)
Desmethylrachlopride (Also a chemical, starting with a D, 3 e's, 2 l's, 2 h's, 2 d's - also a chemical)
Salicylic acid - 2 l's, 2 i's, 2 c's and a y!




This is really fun!!

[kia]

Is this your sentence, Andy? If so, be sure to check part two of the challenge to be posted tomorrow!! That is where the fun will be. I'll add the words you've listed!

[kia]

Time to move to Part 2 of the Presidents' Day International Challenge!

[amk]

Difficulties with loops - I find it a challenge to write words with more than one looped descender as I can never quite get the loops to match.

Egypt
singing
aggravate
lagging
daggers

One word I always write wrong although I know how it is spelt! freind. oops, sorry, friend.

When I'm writing in Gothic blackletter styles, too many m / n / i / u / v / w and I lose track of how many strokes I've done, so words like
accumulate
minimum
minimisation
annual
salvum( = saluum in some scripts which makes it even more confusing) (I'm just copying an illumination in which the scribe has transformed this word to salwm, with a w, in the little scroll held by one of the figures, though it's written properly in the text)
cumulative
annul

[kia]

Thank you, words added!

At this point, I don't want to further edit the word list in order to keep it consistent for everyone working on entries for part two. However, while you are working on entries for part two, do feel free to include more words in your entries that reflect the difficult words criteria!

[Mgarbowski]

I love my pasta and BOLOGNESE sauce is one of my favorites.

Hallelujah is a word when I'm writing I always have to double check along with loquacious!

Thanks for this post!

[youstruckgold]

Wow! Some of you have really given this significant thought!

For me it tends to be less the words than the pen. With the right pen and nib, all words seem a delight - other than those that are never a pleasure to see. So on that light here are a few of the words I don't like:

intolerance
racism
bigotry (also a 'b' 'g' word)
arrogance
hatred
aggression
poverty
vengeance
repression

[kia]

Time to move to Part 2 of the Presidents' Day International Challenge!

Part 2 is underway!