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[physics girl phd]

I was going to post to this thread yesterday, but thought at the time I'd wait til tommorrow. (Finally managed to train myself to "tomorrow" a few years ago...)

 

[FrancisZ]

Sidebar: When very young, did anyone else here think LMNO was a single letter - elemmenno?

as in ...H, I, J, K, ELLEMMENNO, P...

Not that, per se. But other things like that: yes, definitely.I used to think the opening lyrics of All in the Family..."Gee didn't our old LaSalle run great..." was actually "Gee doesn't that all sound real great..." For years, I also actually believed that my grandmother's favorite soap opera: "The Young and the Restless;" was "The Young...and the Rest of Us."Indeed, those were the days.

 

[pergradus]

i can NEVER spell neccissary <---- see?

 

[qspeechc]

The "y" in "rhythm" is a vowel. Every word has a vowel.

Some difficulties in spelling would go if you remember the prefixes and suffixes. Tomorrow = to morrow
Misspell is American and should be mis-spell! The same with unnecessary = un-necessary!
When in doubt use "ise", but some words only take "ize", like "prize".
Words like "ridiculous" would not be mis-spelt if they were pronounced properly. The first "i" is short, like the second.

After all that pontificating, I must admit my spelling is just as faulty as everyone else's :p

 

[Borek]

I have problem with words with double consonants - but I see that's a common problem. And often my typing is too fast for th ecorrect "the". Not that I know where/when to use "the" and "a", so it is th emoot.

And sometimes, although rarely, I use "a" instead of "e" - like in "anough".

But then, contrary to most of you, for me English is almost only a written language; I have no idea how to correctly pronounce most of th ewords, so my writing is not clouded by phonetics.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Every word has a vowel.

Actually that's a quotation. Here's the source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenhard_Ng"
There's a word of 5 letters that's always spelled wrong.

 

[nismaratwork]

i can NEVER spell neccissary <---- see?

Just remember the Latin, which hasn't changed:
necessarius/necesse

Necess-ary

 

[nismaratwork]

I have problem with words with double consonants - but I see that's a common problem. And often my typing is too fast for th ecorrect "the". Not that I know where/when to use "the" and "a", so it is th emoot.

And sometimes, although rarely, I use "a" instead of "e" - like in "anough".

But then, contrary to most of you, for me English is almost only a written language; I have no idea how to correctly pronounce most of th ewords, so my writing is not clouded by phonetics.

Having figures out how Polish is roughly proncounced during a rather complex journey to understand Hungarian... I can see how english would be... alien. I personally find the rules of Polish to be... comprehensible, but I'm not sure how well the reverse would work. I think the nature of s, c, and z in English would be a headache.

 

[Gokul43201]

The "y" in "rhythm" is a vowel. Every word has a vowel.

Well, sorta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_without_vowels

 

[FlexGunship]

"Vacuum" and "Continuum"

In my head, when I type or write "vacuum" I pronounce it (internally) as "vack-you-um" to help me remember.

In the same way that when I type "Wednesday" I pronounce it (internally) as "Wed-ness-day."

 

[jobyts]

****

The above word is not misspelt by me. Somehow, the PF software converts it to 4 stars

 

[cobalt124]

I struggle knowing when to use learned or learnt.

 

[qspeechc]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_without_vowels

In [...] Received Pronunciation, every lexical word must contain at least one spoken vowel in its pronunciation. In some [...] dialects, such as General American, a word may contain no other vowel sounds if it instead has a syllabic R sound, as in word.

Well that says it all. "General American" is not English.

*Awaits barrage of abuse*

 

[nismaratwork]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_without_vowels



Well that says it all. "General American" is not English.

*Awaits barrage of abuse*

What? I'm American and I'd agree that "GA" is a dialect of English... of course, every dialect is just that...

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

And often my typing is too fast for th ecorrect "the". Not that I know where/when to use "the" and "a", so it is th emoot.

Cool! That's like th email!

Just remember the Latin, which hasn't changed:
necessarius/necesse

Necess-ary

Necessarius sounds like the name of a large Neptune-like exojovian with 8 major moons and three other planets in the system, two inner small terrestrials and one outer superterrestrial with a moon the size of Ceres.


...


I just wowed myself with that.

 

[nismaratwork]

Cool! That's like th email!

Necessarius sounds like the name of a large Neptune-like exojovian with 8 major moons and three other planets in the system, two inner small terrestrials and one outer superterrestrial with a moon the size of Ceres.


...


I just wowed myself with that.

I have one response, "Duuuuuuuuuude... whooooaaaa."

 

[Evo]

I struggle knowing when to use learned or learnt.

Learned is American, learned is British.

 

[nismaratwork]

Learned is American, learned is British.

What about "Lorna-Doont"?

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

What about "Lorna-Doont"?

Wahtt?

 

[Evo]

What about "Lorna-Doont"?

I loved that movie, the one on A&E. Back when A&E was about quality classics, not a tv tabloid.

 

[nismaratwork]

I loved that movie, the one on A&E. Back when A&E was about quality classics, not a tv tabloid.

I was thinking of the shortbread cookies...

 

[Evo]

I was thinking of the shortbread cookies...

Those are great too.

 

[nismaratwork]

Those are great too.

Heh... I don't think I've ever had one, but the name stuck in my head for some reason. Possibly where my Spanish language course was supposed to be... it would explain a lot.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

nu repplee
wuds taht yu tned two myzzpal... myzpull... miyzzdell...

:tongue2:

 

[cobalt124]

Learned is American, learned is British.

I didn't know that, I thought they were used for different reasons depending on the sentence. I'm with the U.S. version here though, learned just looks wrong to me.

 

[Borek]

Whenever I write "learnt" I can't understand why spell checker marks it as incorrect.

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

Whenever I write "learnt" I can't understand why spell checker marks it as incorrect.

Broke, spelchequers ar poyntlis.

 

[cobalt124]

Whenever I write "learnt" I can't understand why spell checker marks it as incorrect.

It's an American spellchecker? That'll learn you!

 

[physics girl phd]

Just thought of this one yesterday as I wrote up the grocery-list:

BANANA

I used to spell it "bananna" until I noticed the spellings in little E's books seemed consistently incorrect. (At 1 1/2, she doesn't say it right yet. She asks for a "bee-ah" instead. She'll eat a whole banana in one sitting though.)

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

Bananas... makes me hungry.

Oups. I mispeled it rong.

Banananananananananananananananananas.

 

[rootX]

Learned is American, learned is British.

I didn't know that, I thought they were used for different reasons depending on the sentence. I'm with the U.S. version here though, learned just looks wrong to me.

I thought it goes like
learn (first) -> learned (second form) -> learned (third form)

And same for dream:
dream -> dreamed -> dreamt

 

[Evo]

I thought it goes like
learn (first) -> learned (second form) -> learned (third form)

learnt\ˈlərnt\
Definition of LEARNT
chiefly British past and past participle of learn

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/learnt?show=0&t=1300407408

Also spelt in America has nothing to do with spelling, in American it's spelled. Spelt is an ancient variety of wheat.

 

[jhae2.718]

I almost always spell behavior as behaviour.

I also mess up with o's, but that's just because the O key on my laptop gets stuck...

 

[lisab]

I don't know why, I always want to put a "p" in dreamt - dreampt. Dreampt? Where the heck does that come from ?

Luckily I'm American and can proudly use "dreamed" .

 

[rootX]

I only use dreamt or learned when I want to make it sound very special or bring lots of emphasis on what I am talking about.