Miss Spelling READS the Dictionary every morning with her cup of peppermint tea. She can spell Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious backwards without even closing her eyes. She's calm under pressure, looks good in green, doesn't spell check her tweets, and never needed the assistance of Mr. Spell Check.
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| poor overworked guy! |
Not that I'll ever be as together as Miss Spelling, or become a pocket protector wearing Mr. Spell Check, but I'm making an effort to be more like her and use Mr. Spell Check less. Doesn't he look overworked?
To the end, as I write if I type a word and the red squiggly line attacks it, or if I pause in typing, not sure whether to use bare or bear, I do what my teachers always told me. I look it up.
And then I go a step further. I write the correct spelling and any notes I need on index cards (that I cut in half).
I thought I'd share some of my recent misspelled* words **.
renege
embarrassed
equipment
calendar
definite
recommend
deterrent
innuendo
acquiesced
suspicion
*I had to look up misspelled just to be sure for this post*
**If you're curious, I found the 100 most often misspelled words here.
I think you're the uber-coolest person on the planet for making yourself index cards of misspelled words. While I don't do that, I do Google lay vs. lie about once a month, or any other writing question I might have. Hopefully one day those pesky rules will sink in my brain. (I finally figured out how to make the rule of who vs. whom stick, so kudos to me for that!)
ReplyDeleteRock on, Robin!
I know, lay vs. lie, always have to check. Takes me back to that first day in Louise's class, do you remember?
DeleteI rely way too much on those squiggly red lines. You are all kinds of cool for trying to learn as you go, Robin.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ilima! I'm hoping that eventually I won't see so many of them and that it won't distract me from writing (I like to correct them ASAP)
DeleteI was going to comment that I've been trying to work on my spelling and grammar. I failed to gain an education in proper grammar. Just this morning I was double checking lay vs lie to make sure I used it correctly!
ReplyDeleteOne thing I have been doing is fixing my own red underlined misspellings instead of using the computer to help me. Nice to know I'm not the only one.
Ah Robin- I am the Queen of mis-pronunciation and miss-spelling. I pray my followers forgive all my errors, because believe it or not, even with spell check and proof-reading my work, I ALWAYS make mistakes. I think it's a very good thing you do to learn from your spelling errors!
ReplyDeleteI work as an editor and there are still words that I find myself misspelling or looking up. "Unnecessary" almost ALWAYS gets me--so many double consonants and I always think there should be two Cs...
ReplyDeleteAnd it's so easy to mistype something even when you know how it's spelled. Spellcheck is an awesome tool. So are dictionaries. :D
Right there with you. Who made up the English language anyway? Though I'd probably still have a hard time regardless of the language...
ReplyDeletei know what ya mean. i'm neither miss spelling or mr. spellcheck.
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't for firefox, my spelling errors would sing like a choir. :)
ReplyDeleteOh man, my day job is as an engineer. They have coffee mugs that make fun of how bad of spellers we are :)
ReplyDeleteAnd so nice to *meet* you! I found you through Ms. Cassie Mae :)
Acquiesce is a toughy and I too rely on squiggly lines.
ReplyDeleteYour stalker comment on Kate Coursey's post was so creeptastic I had to come by and say hi! I'm not that far from you too in SoCal..........
Whether, Weather and yep, Wether. My first script was full of castrated rams.
ReplyDeleteCompletely understand! Spell check can definitely be a savior :)
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