occassion...ocassion...occasion...argh!!

"Afterward" is correct if you're referring to the time that follows. "Afterword" is a part of a book.

Just today I had trouble with traveling. It is one l, right? I used to have trouble with signature when I was younger. It seems I wanted it to behave like "Parliament", and so spelled it "signiature". What a weirdo.

enviroment. Its should be environment.

I don't ever misspell them, but these two, especially when considered together, have sometimes made me stop to think about it for a moment:

weapon
leopard

Traveling is a hard one for me because I correspond with friends in the UK and Australia and there the word is properly spelled with two lls as "travelling".

Actually, this international correspondence has started to make me a bit of a schizophrenic speller! When I write to English/Australian friends I tend to adopt their spellings ('color' becomes 'colour', 'realize' morphs into 'realise', etc.) Later, I find these "Queen's English" spelling habits bleeding into my everyday writing. Now I have to stop and make myself think about whether I'm writing for Americans or friends overseas before I sit down at my keyboard!

The hardest word for me though is "niece". This should be ridiculously easy to spell but about 50% of the time I get it wrong. No idea why. To check if I'm spelling it correctly I repeat that old rhyme about "i before e except after c" but the word still just "looks" wrong to me.

Many still randomly. There's just one serial word:
definitily (oh, - quaint Italian cursing - again!) -> ^H^H^H and then I correct

As for "travel(l)ing" (and "snorkel(l)ing") I will have a hard time. I try to stick to AmEng, but I always end up doubling the Ls. It's stronger than me.

Then, there's all the colour-color, analyze-analyse, theater- theatre stuff, but it's way beyond my possibilities to remember which one is British and which one American. I'll write whatever my heart dictates at the moment.

Anything with doubled consonants..."necessary" is a real bitch. Actually, I'm not even sure I spelled it right that time, and I'm far too lazy to look at the dictionary.

I ALWAYZ SPELL MEET, MEAT...

put me in for necessary. no matter how often i get it right i can't get past the doubt...

i wonder what my brain is doing electrochemically when i have those little "misfires" where i see a word i've never questioned yourself on before and all of a sudden it becomes alien to me, and i stop and think "what?".

"match" got me on Friday. i was trying to write matchstick blinds and it really took a good minute before i could move on to the stick part...

"hightail" got me out of a spelling bee in 6th grade and only recently have i begun to undo the desire to NEVER EVER KNOW HOW TO SPELL THAT STUPID WORD. of course the trauma of being wrong was compounded by my coke addict teacher berating me about it for the entire school year.... ahhh the memories. (still not certain how to spell it though)

Carribbean (?!)
Accordion (I always try to give it an "a")

I didn't realize how many words I misspelled till I left the automatic spell-check on in MS Word. I pride myself on good spelling for NO GOOD REASON...

I agree with all you double consonant haters.

I used to have shit's own time spelling "accommodate".

Now, I just remember there's a "commode" in there somewhere. Well ... 6/7 of one, anyway.