The long vowel sound for U sounds like “you”. Words like unicorn, cube, statue, music, duty, human, and tissue use U’s long vowel sound.

it’s definitely “a unit.” I think it’s cause that u is actually pronounced like y in “you,” not like a u in “umbrella” or something else…

Agraphia is an acquired neurological disorder causing a loss in the ability to communicate through writing, either due to some form of motor dysfunction or an inability to spell.

Peripheral agraphia. Peripheral agraphia refers to a loss of writing abilities. While it’s caused by damage to the brain, it can mistakenly appear to be associated with motor function or visual perception. It involves the loss of the cognitive ability to select and connect letters to form words.

What it is: Dyslexia is a common learning difference that affects reading. It makes it hard to isolate the sounds in words, match those sounds to letters, and blend sounds into words. Learning to spell may be even harder than learning to read for some people with dyslexia.

Forgetting how to spell simple words is a problem for many dyslexic people. However this happens to everyone from time to time. This is because we take it for granted that we know how to spell these common words. A lot of the time they can be more complicated than they seem.

Simple answer: Your brain is much faster than your hands. Your tongue is also faster than your hands, that’s why you’ll never have this happen when you speak, only when you write. So it’s easy for your hands to skip a word sometimes.

Stress, anxiety or depression can cause forgetfulness, confusion, difficulty concentrating and other problems that disrupt daily activities.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.

It’s just a common brain glitch called wordnesia. This problem crops up when you can’t spell the simplest words. When familiar words suddenly seem like the strangest things. We don’t know what exactly happens in the brain when wordnesia occurs, but some researchers have an idea.

Semantic satiation is the name of a psychological phenomenon wherein the repetition of a word, whether it’s visual or oral, causes it to lose its meaning for the viewer/listener, and makes it seem like it’s just a meaningless sound. These are usually the words with whom you have “stronger associations”.