Help with english..

Factual Questions
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Well some of you have read my posts in the past and some haven’t.

My apologises for those that have.

Story goes - I went to 8 different primary schools and missed out on Atleast 2 years primary education. Also i am Dislexic.

I have a very hard time remembering correct spelling (i do try though) and an even harder time knowing if i have typed " Thank you very much" or " hanTk uoY veyr mcuh" !

I was wondering if there are any “easy to remember” ways to remmber the differences between

Nouns Verbs pronouns adjectives and basic spelling rules. You guys have always been friendly in the passed (in putting up with my poor posts - hopefully i can improve)

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My daughter (who isn’t dyslexic, but is at that stage of learning to read where she has trouble with the orientation of certain letters (notably b and d) - I’ve been telling her to think of the word ‘bed’ - the word 'bed looks a bit like a drawing of the object itself (well, more like a bed than ‘deb’) and from that she can deduce the correct way to form the letters.

Have you been to any specialists about your problem? - help is available out there - My niece is mildly dyslexic and she has been given tinted glasses for reading - apparently this reduces the overall visual stimulation and can be a great help in certain cases.

That’s all I can suggest.

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Mangetout - I dig it - thanks.

I am 25 and have been told that my mind has been forced to learn ways of copeing with it that can not be undone.

I am just little rules like.

And I before E except after a C

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I’m mildly dyslexic as well… I haven’t found anything that helps. Usually I manage to catch it before I make a fool of myself but not always.

Oh! One thing: the word “friend” ends with “end”… since I figured that out, I haven’t spelled it wrong often.

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Thats man … its just little things like that

fri-end… cool

Ok i got one back at ya

Business… You have to be BUSY - BUSI to do business.

For years i was doing buisnes when is should be business.

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A secretary is a “secret” ary.

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Spelling in English isn’t easy for anyone. (Just look at the number of posts in SDMB that are followed by “Whoops, that should have been…”)

I am not dyslexic, but did have trouble with spelling around the age of 12. Thankfully, along came an English teacher that taught rules like “i before e”, “piece of pie” and “stationary train, stationery paper”. Before that, all of the teachers had focused on letter sounds and memorising word lists.

I know that it’s different for everyone, but I found personally that that approach worked for me. It was easier for me to memorise the little rules than to memorise the spelling from the word lists, and much better than trying to spell phonetically.

When I was older, I think I approached spelling visually. If someone asked “is this word spelled like this? or like that?” I would need to see them written down before I could answer.

Now that I’m (much, much) older, I think I can spell pretty well. But I still stuff up all the time.

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Desmostylus - cheers mate.

Hmm i am starting to think now that whenever someone comes in an makes a fool of themselves they will be pointed at this thread.
OK got another one.

Ofcourse is Off course cos it is spelt of course …

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It is feasible for you to use a speech-recognition program when you write? Then the computer would do the spelling for you. Dragon “Naturally Speaking” and IBM make such programs.

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Not quite. People don’t make fools of themselves just because they can’t spell.

I could get criticised for making spelling mistakes, but the mere fact that someone critisises me doesn’t make me a fool. If I make a fool of myself, it’s because of what I’ve said, not how I spelled it.

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Together is made up of three words, To get her.

Do you run your posts through a spellchecker before submitting? that could catch a good deal of the more obvious mistakes.