As a denial rection to the shambles of my life as a journalist right now, i am going to continue this theme of random, yet hopefully slightly entertaining, posts which i began yesterday...
When I was a wee one, i never seemed to be able to motivate myself to study for class spelling tests... it ticked my mother off to no end. Thankfully though, i've always been a beeeeeeeg fan of reading, and this has redeemed my spelling issues to some extent - apparently if you see words often enough something soaks in! There remain, however, some words that i just never seem to grasp grammatically, I was thinking about these in my Classics lecture this morning, besides taking YEARS to learn how to spell 'beautiful' and having to make up a rhyme to spell 'colour' (Colin Ollen Likes Olives Under Rain), these are the one's i've come up with:
tounge - should be tongue
prescence - presence
definately (my mom's personal pet peeve) - should be definitely
recieved... i never did get the exceptions to the rule! - should be received
prehaps - perhaps
incidently, to try and recover some dignity now that you all know that i'm a hopeless speller, i will share my all time favorite word fact:
the longest word in the English language is not, in fact, as some jokers would like to believe, smile (it starts with an 's' and then goes on for a mile *cringe*) It is (drumroll please)...
and it means "The action or habit of estimating as worthless"
cool hey :)
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Um, RECIEVED should be RECEIVED rather. u got it right the 1st time smily one :)
Oh, 'i' before 'e' except after 'c'. Thanks 4 clarifying definitely, some of my dictionaries are not too sure of its spelling either :>
*oops* nope... you were right... i couldn't even mispell it right! hehe... have fixed it now so hopefully your dictionaries survived the ordeal?! hehe :)
Berry berry berry (much head shaking)....
oh well. i think when it was the moment that i saw u mispell the word "giant" (you wrote "gient") that i knew. but in all fairness that word was only a small part of the whole word that means battle between giants and gods - it was in classics.
at least WHAT u actually write makes much sense and is quite butterful + intelligent. my spelling is ok - its just the content that is sometimes lacking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hehehe
this is great. ration should be ratio :p
thancks for the exersice this morning. haha, not enuf misspeling there but it shood be fyn
this was a great post my lindz! i still love u even with ur spelling melfunction... the main reason is probably cos i have a bit of a bad spelling streak to (embarrassed look). i always struggled with spelling 'because'- i never seem to catch onto it... still remember it by 'betty eats cakes and uncle sells eggs'... love u muchly!
i sadly ahve the small prob of sometimes misspelling my own name (blush) so dont worry little one, you're still okay... ;)
okay, "HAve"... at least it wasnt my nae!
damnit!! "naMe" (now i am very very embarressed!)
GOSH berry i didn't know it was like that. reading is the best thing for spelling and i'm glad you are literate. i saw you yesterday and we will have tea sometime. 11comments. dang good all the bloggers. flip when are they going to put blog on my predictive text.
A bunch of us were talking about that flocci word in the news room... how I spend my days as a journalist. Thanks for all the support in my media saga Berry!! Its been so draining but with friends by me I've come through... you rock ;) And you're gonna make a rocking journalist!
It appears we have something in common. I can't spell either. But I don't read so there is no hope for me (sigh). Ok bye
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