Challenge! Presidents' Day International - Part 1

[Apprenti]

I'm not fully sure I understand this thread, but words I find hard are:

 

Toddler (or other words with 'dl' because I always forget the l)

Rosewood

Quarry

Mississippi (so many double s's and p's!)

R's leading into E's

Minimum (try it, sometimes it just looks like a squiggle)

 

I try and write in cursive, using flourished majuscules (another hard word).

 

Carry on,

Joe

[kiavonne]

Hi, Joe. Thank you for letting us know your difficult words!

 

On January 24, I'm going to start part 2 of the challenge. Using the difficult words and letter combinations we've gathered to that point, I will be asking for entries creating practice sentences for our writing endeavors. The most creative and challenging practice sentence will be awarded the win, but we should hopefully end up with several practice sentences for everyone to use to help our writing.

 

So, please follow us!

Edited January 18, 2014 by kiavonne

[Apprenti]

Oh I seeeeeeee, got it

Will definitely follow along!

[FLZapped]

Millennium drives me bonkers.

[kiavonne]

ooooh, good one, FLZapped!

[inkstainedruth]

I tried to pay attention the last couple of days to what words I had particular trouble with in my journal entries, and found that I was having a lot of trouble with "remember" (which is like "minimum" and "maxmum in that it's got all those "m"s to futz with). I was also having trouble with "through".

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[kiavonne]

gh combinations can be tough, Ruth. It's a long path from the descent to the ascent. Forgetting the r is something I've done, too.

Edited January 19, 2014 by kiavonne

[Apprenti]

R's leading into I's as well. I often skip the line for the I because I write copperplate(ish) r's and they change depending on location.

[kiavonne]

is that " I " as in i or a lower case L?

[measond]

doubles give me a hard time...

 

access

accelerate

pippin

pepper

parrakeet

giggle

trigger

baggage

wobble

abbot

ebbtide

 

abridge

 

phyllophagous (feeding on leaves)

aestheticism

 

DonQuixote

DonJuan

Doppler

DDT

DDD (related to DDT but less toxic)

D.C.

 

edit to add "D"

Edited January 20, 2014 by measond

[kingcobradude]

I am not sure of what style of cursive I was taught, and I made some minor changes to some letters to better suit me, but I have not written cursive for any sizable prtion of writing since 4th grade, and I forgot how to write a few letters in cursive:

capital and lowercase F

Capital G

capital H

capital J

capital I

capital K

 

words/ letter combos that give me trouble in cursive:

Galileo... I always end up doubling the first L

anytime a lowercase e follows a lowercase b (bee) , v (curve) or o (as in the name Chloe), I always add an extra e

and my B/G word: Longbow

[bokchoy]

Here's my list

 

too many ascenders/descenders:

fifthly, sixthly, eighthly, twelfthly

 

most awkward double letter: Exxon

 

'ff' is part of "suffer":

fluffy, giraffe, ruffian, kerfuffle, coffee, difficult, effort, riff-raff, quaff, staff

 

I also have trouble with these:

eyebrows

paparazzi

vacuum

acknowledgements

manoeuvre

squabble

ships <- I never get it right the first time

 

this one came from a list of unusual words:

zenzizenzizenzic (a number raised to the eighth power)

 

b/g word: grabs

Edited January 20, 2014 by bokchoy

[Apprenti]

is that " I " as in i or a lower case L?

Lower case r's going into lower case i's. Sorry I'm a bit of a stickler for English grammar so writing a lower case i when discussing the letter i seems to offend my meticulous mind

[Apprenti]

I am not sure of what style of cursive I was taught, and I made some minor changes to some letters to better suit me, but I have not written cursive for any sizable prtion of writing since 4th grade, and I forgot how to write a few letters in cursive:

capital and lowercase F

Capital G

capital H

capital J

capital I

capital K

 

words/ letter combos that give me trouble in cursive:

Galileo... I always end up doubling the first L

anytime a lowercase e follows a lowercase b (bee) , v (curve) or o (as in the name Chloe), I always add an extra e

and my B/G word: Longbow

My dad used to be an archer, and he used a longbow. Good word!

 

I don't like majuscules in everyday writing because I have to write quickly at school so using copperplate and spencerian majuscules with a bunch of flourishes just amounts to a big mess!

[kiavonne]

Lower case r's going into lower case i's. Sorry I'm a bit of a stickler for English grammar so writing a lower case i when discussing the letter i seems to offend my meticulous mind

 

Do not be sorry! Unfortunately, computer fonts are a bit of a nuisance with certain letters. Thank you for the clarification.

[DanF]

Here are a few more BG words:

Bugaboo

beguile

begat

braggart

grubby

lugubrious

benign

 

 

I will have to try and remember some words that give me grief in writing, I know there are a few. Double lower case f's and p's can be problematic to get the slant and height identical - when they are off it really shows. Going into an s from an o can be tricky too.

 

riffraff

poppies

possible

babble

 

Lower case w, m, and n are tricky to get the loops evenly rounded and the downstrokes all parallel (in the Spencerian tradition). So "woman" can be challenging to write.

 

Dan

[kiavonne]

Only one more day before we start part two! Here's the list of difficult words and letter combinations, so far. It includes a lot of ink names, too. Did I miss any? You still have time to add to the list!!

 

abbot

abridge

accelerate

access

accidentally

acknowledgements

aestheticism

affair

affection

again

anxious

assessment

babble

baggage

baguette

beekeeper

begat

beggar

beguile

benign

big

bluff

bookkeeper

braggart

buffalo

bugaboo

chauffeur

Clackmannanshire

coffee

comeuppance

commission

conceivableness

D.C.

DDD

DDT

daffodil

Derringer

Diamine Mediterranean Blue

diarrhoea (also diarrhea)

difficult

different

disappointed

disease

Don Juan

Don Quixote

Doppler

duffle

ebbtide

effort

Egypt

equipped

eyebrows

flabbergasted

flibbertigibbet

fluff

fluffy

Galileo

genuine

genuine

giggle

giraffe

gobbledygook

grabs

grubby

gruff

guarantee

guillotine

gypsy

hallelujah

indubitably

kaleidoscope

kerfuffle

kitten

like

longbow

lugubrious

maintenance

majuscules

maneuverability

manoeuvre (also maneuver)

maximum

Mediterranean

millennium

minimum

Mississippi

navvy

necessary

Noodler’s Tiananmen

paparazzi

parakeet

pepper

phyllophagous

Pilot Iroshizuku Ajisai

Pilot Iroshizuku Murasaki-Shikibu

pippin

poppies

porpoise

possible

potential

Private Reserve

purse

quaff

quarry

remember

rhetorical

riffraff

Rohrer and Klingner Leipziger Schwarz

Rohrer and Klingner Smaragdgrün

rosewood

ruffian

rutabaga

sheriff

ships

showcase

shuffle

squabble

staff

stuff

subgroup

subterfuge

success

successfully

syzygy

telecommunication

Tennessee

through

Tiananmen

tinkering

toddler

trigger

unanimous

under (as compound word, underwear, underhand, undercooked, etc.)

vacuum

waffle

wobble

woman

zenzizenzizenzic

 

 

capital letters D, A, K, W, M, N, Q, G, H, I, B, E

double letters, m, n, r, f, s, p

e’s leading into r’s

r’s leading into e’s

r’s leading into i’s

lower case combinations gh, ve, oe, so, be, wc

 

 

These two... not so much, but we'll see!

 

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantysiliogogogoch (location)

Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän (position/job title)

Edited January 24, 2014 by kiavonne

[kiavonne]

Speaking of fun words with double letters, I think I shall add the word bookkeeper!

[Pterodactylus]

Hi Kimy,

 

Just a remark, a Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän is no location it is a job title.

It is a Captain of a Steamship employed by the Danube steam ship company (which is a famous company here with a very long tradition running ships on the Danube, founded 1829)

 

So you could ask a child:

Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?

A: I want to be a Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän.

 

Btw. It is written with 3 f

 

 

For me it is also difficult to write words with "be" combinations nicely.

As the b loop is almost on the same hight as the e loop, so many times the e looks distorted.

Edited January 23, 2014 by Pterodactylus

[kiavonne]

Thank you, Pterodactylus!

 

I fixed and added. Thank you for keeping me on track.