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| Re: A little blot on the carpet [message #10027 is a reply to message #10026 ] |
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I didn't post them on my blog! The dancing one was making the blog rounds a while back, and the Macmillan one just came out recently. A couple editors and agents had it on their blogs. I stole it from them. ;)
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But my spelling has also never been one of my strong points and putting ‘u’s in things is a ratbag. Okay, why isn’t there a ‘u’ in tremor? But there isn’t. And sometimes when you tack stuff on the end of a ‘u’ word the u comes back out again. ‘Colour’ tends to hang onto its ‘u’ pretty consistently: colourful, colourless, colouration. But humour . . . it’s humorous but humourless! This ISN’T FUNNY!
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... That is just WRONG. I kind of like the way the u makes words sound rounder in my head, but there should be some kind of rule that all the words like that get a u.
I sort of like the extra l some words get, too. Traveling/travelling. I say two Ls when I say it out loud. It should have two in American spelling, too.
They always said that reading would help improve my spelling when I was younger, but they LIED. It did NOT, because I sometimes got hold of British editions...and, well. *sniff*
Smooshes!
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| Re: A little blot on the carpet [message #10057 is a reply to message #10052 ] |
Sat, 17 January 2009 13:48 |
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| GraceNotes wrote on Sat, 17 January 2009 12:28 |
I find my spelling has gone to pot now that I rarely write longhand. I was a much better speller when my brain told my hand what to do and I could see it. Now I hit keys, they all feel the same and I can't type by touch despite a typing class decades ago in Junior High School. The sensory input is VERY different. Of course, now that I am in my 7th decade has some influence on this.
Cheers to you, Robin for a day packed with successes.
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Heh. You know what's funny? I can spell much better on the keyboard than longhand. (And other people can read what I type. I don't expect anyone to read my handwriting. *I* can't even read it half the time. Though there is something extra satisfying about writing longhand...for a while until your hand starts cramping up. Urk.)
So sometimes when I'm not sure how to spell a word when I'm writing longhand, I pretend to type it on the keyboard. That usually straightens things right out. ;)
But as Robin says, I grew up knowing how to drive a computer...
Smooshes!
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| Re: A little blot on the carpet [message #10089 is a reply to message #10029 ] |
Sat, 17 January 2009 17:46 |
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 Robin
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Yes, you could well be right. I hope the builder I spent six months chasing two years ago is now SCRATCHING for work. (I am not a nice person.) And the builder I *am* using, in his defense, he was ready to do the job last September and then, looking at the *architect's plans*, for which I had paid xxxxxxx, you know, he said, did anyone ever CHECK THE FOOTINGS? Answer--no. So several hundred more pounds later, he discovered that there WERE no 'footings', and if they'd dropped the attic floor on the walls as they stand, said walls would PROBABLY have fallen down. So this builder is kind of my hero. A direly EXPENSIVE hero, but . . .
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