Here is a list I’ve been maintaining for myself for a few years now:
- successful
- occurring
- acceleration
- vanilla
- corollary
- Jennifer
- accommodate
- appalling
- embarrassing
- beginning
- Renaissance
- happening
- questionnaire
- recommendation
- tomorrow
- etiquette
- graffiti
- terrific
- necessary and necessarily
- traveling
- Caribbean
- committee
- commitment
- committed
- commission
- commodity
- interrupted
- palette
- modeling
- asymmetry
- occurrence
- my colleague Mubbasir (who says he gets Mubassir regularly (i.e. not just from me))
- dissemination
- assessment
- Moroccan
- satellite
- reconnaissance
- possession
- accessible
- vacillation
- palette
You’ll notice that most of these have a double. This says something (to me) about how we (I) encode words. I seem to be sensitive to whether a words has double letters or not, but not where they go or even how many pairs of doubles there are. The result is that even if you a word has doubles, it’s often tough to remember where the double goes (Is it “grafitti” or “graffiti”?), and also to know if a word should have one pair or two (“graffiti” or “graffitti”?). Call this a heterophenomenological dispatch from my head to yours.
