― anthony, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Anyway, just read more and more. As much as possible. That's how I learned to spell, and that's how I continue to improve my vocabulary. It's more enjoyable than slavishly studying spelling guides.
― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Also, and this might sound a bit condescending, don't use words that you don't know how to spell. Find out how to spell it, then use it. Of course if you continue to write in your lower case ee cummings style poetical form then we will all assume that the mistakes are for effect...
― Pete, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
And he is not a crap speller, he is just a crap typist. And he does not proof read his books as I read one and it was rammed with typos but I was too polite to point it out.
― Emma, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― scott, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I liked ee cummings a lot at an impressionable age is always a good excuse for poor punctuation. I am a spider and therefore cannot press shift and the letter at the same time is a rubbish excuse.
Of course this reminds me of those lessons at school where they introduce you to free verse. Then you write a poem. Then you lose marks for not making it rhyme. Bastards.
OK, it doesn't help in forums like this where it's hard to cut and paste out of Word, but it's helped me immensely in my professional life.
― masonic boom, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― AP, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― duane, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― AP, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Josh, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― AP, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― mark s, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Emma, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― scott, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
and what the FuXoR is "eleven" all about? Or twelve (= twenteen, surely)?
― Pete, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
AS: Feower/Feowertene/Feowertig MS: Four/Fourtene/Forty
Forty is anomalous in that it diverges from the Old English root's mutation [prob not correct linguistic term] in 4 and 14.
But 14 is anomalous in that it holds to its root while 13 and 15 don't.
― Nick, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
There's a festering can of metaphysics devoted to thinking in words vs. thinking in non-words. Eg. look at your hand and try counting your fingers w/o using "one, two, three" etc. It's v. difficult - possibly impossible - as human brains are conditioned to formulate thought as words.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
"tony" or "toney"?
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 27 April 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
tony
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 27 April 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
toni
― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Monday, 27 April 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
toné
come on, you knew someone had to take it for the team & say it
― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Monday, 27 April 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.seriesadictos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/tony-soprano1.jpg http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/0/1/1/1/17671110-17671121-slarge.jpg
― loaded forbear (gabbneb), Monday, 27 April 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Webster's 11th lists both, but "tony" is first. For the record, I don't think I've seen "toney" outside of that Ghostface album.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 27 April 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
thankig u
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 27 April 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I am a fine speller (typos notwithstanding) -- an admirable one, even. So what is it with me and the word "fluorescent"?
― kenan, Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link
The "uo" instead of "ou" fucks me up so bad that even if I remember that bit of strangeness, I forget something else, like whether it's "sc" or just "s" or just "c".
― kenan, Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:13 (fifteen years ago) link
mnemonic: fluorescent is the scent of ore with the flu?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice! I'll use that, thanks.
― kenan, Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Maintenance. I can't spell it, and often I can't even get it close enough for it to come up in the suggested words in a spell check. I get around this by memorizing the misspelling that will get me close so it does come up in the suggested words. Why don't I just learn to spell it? No idea.
― Jeff, Sunday, 21 August 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i've finally managed to nail 'bureaucracy'. no more cycling through every combination of 'ureau' until i find the right one!
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 21 August 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, maintenance used to drive me crazy too
― k3vin k., Sunday, 21 August 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
you know those words that you look at for too long and it just starts looking completely wrong? maintenance is one of those words
― k3vin k., Sunday, 21 August 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
It took me about ten minutes to figure out how to spell 'anniversary' the other day, till finally I remembered the second e is actually an i.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 21 August 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
to hell with spelling! we'll get drunk on cheap wines!
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://jimromenesko.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/for_jim.jpg
― Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
I spell as I feel - there is no "correct spelling of anything!!"
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
The compound "Showdog" was too boring. Misspelling it as "Shodog" was better, he says, but it looked too short on the page, and lacked personality.
So Mr. Mitschele added a second "g," which, he says, combined with the missing "w," conveys an attitude of not taking things so seriously that you have to spell everything right.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324263404578611772689785466-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwODExNDgyWj.html
― just sayin, Sunday, 21 July 2013 08:28 (eleven years ago) link