Mine is the word "immediately".

I use it at work very often, and also in e-mails. But I just can't remember the correct spelling of this word!!! Never!!! I allways have to look it up in the dictionary. Even when I try to spell it correct, and then use the spell check function, my "immediately" is spelled that wrong, that the spell check doesn't even has a recommendation what it maybe could be...

It's not mine, but the incorrect use of me, myself, and I, really irks me. Usually, it's from someone replacing me or I with myself. I guess if you don't know the correct usage, just use myself.

I can't count the number of times I've heard some athlete say something like "the team and myself are..." during an interview.


skgiven:
How would you reword this:
"I may be the person least likely to win the lottery."
to do away with doubling up?

Gotcha.
I used person as a broad category, as opposed to a specific one like school marm or deep sea diver.
Agreed.

Well, so happens my second biggest issue in typing correctly ... "length", most always causing the red wiggle to appear. The big advantage of Italian is that if properly articulated it can be written as heard, but then over 80% can't spell correctly either absent knowledge of some basic rules. (Think for English that percent is probably even higher).

We really only got 21 characters in the alphabet with the 'western' extra 5 of which some are not pronounced at all. A Hotel is only written that way because all the foreigners would not know what an Otel is, but we still pronounce it like that ;>)

Spanish is rather easy... it's all about the ''trained'' ear, hearing impairment actually strongly associated with dyslexia. The Japanese/Chinese would not even hear some of the western characters. I'm Lobetto per a Chinese friend (yes, and not going to share what that translates to :o).

So the topic is "YOUR most frequent English language stumble ... anyone ready to reveal... an Archie Bunker consistent, albeit intelligent confusion maybe?

I occasionally get caught out trying to spell where, were, and wear.
Words with unusual vowel pronunciations catch many out:
Suite sounds like Sweet (matching set, sugary),
Suit sounds like Soot (outfit, chimney smoke dust).
So when you drop the e from suite the pronunciation totally changes.