3 thoughts on “Embarassed or embarrassed”?

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1. Thank you! I am a native, American-English-speaking gentleman, and I have always been able to spel gudly. Gah! Even joking around, that is like nails on a chalkboard! I have always been able to spell well enough to notice errors everywhere I look! I am sure you can relate!
   Anyway, I have been learning to speak Italian for the past 2.5 years and I love it! But every once in a while—like today, for example—I will, at first, think of the way I am used to spelling the word in question, and then, the unexpected, second-guessing will strike all of a sudden, because I am having to unlearn a lot of what I had learned decades ago. The case in point, of course, is that while in Italian it begins with an I, not an E. That’s not the problem. In Italian, the rest of the word is similar enough to the English that it doesn’t matter that you can only speak English, because you would not be likely to fail to recognize that the Italian word, Imbarazzata probably means embarrass, embarrassing or embarrassed. It’s just enough of a difference in the base word to tickle the second guess that I think, “Okay, double R and double S,” (capitalized to emphasize and avoid confusion) yet something is saying that 1 R is not always wrong…but if I was in a hurry, and thus I would have no time to guess anything, I would always, 100 out of 100 times, spell it with RR and SS. But it is not a hard and fast rule any longer. Not like it was long ago.

2. I was thinking if you can mention in each case if word is American version of English.

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