I luv speling badlee. I noe this is a obveeus post for this thred, but I just laik to say that I think it akchooallee stimyoolates us creeaytivlee. cos we hav 2 think of how 2 spel a wurd badly while keeping it relativlee understanabull
Conversely I love slepping well (huh? no joke - my brain mixed the l and the p up in that word. Maybe I’ve broke it by spelling badly)
I really don’t like to brag but while I was in 6th grade, I only missed one word on all the spelling tests given all year. On Mondays, the teacher would have 15 words on the blackboard and the class chose the other 5 words to make a 20 word spelling test. Shortly after Christmas break, a word was submitted and accepted that would prove to be my downfall. I feel the same way today as I felt then, this word should not have been accepted because it is not a true word. It has never been in any dictionary that I know of unless Disney printed one of their own. The word I missed was and I bet I spelled it wrong again:
Supercalifragilisticexpialodocious.
I checked after typing it, yes I screwed up again.
Our hands were firmly cimented
With a fast balme. which thence did spring
Our eye-beams twisted, and did thred
Our eyes, upon one double string
So to’entergraft our hands, as yet
Was all the meanes to make us one,
And pictures in our eyes to get
Was all our propogation.
-John Donne, “The Extasie”
*Note to mods: Don’t werry, its public domane. But you new that.
Are misplaced apostrophe’s considered poor spelling, or poor grammar?
Cause my guess is, for it to be a spelling error, it’s got to have actual rong “letters”, not wrong “punctuation”.
Residing in the picturesque, rustic, pastoral idyll that is England I refuse to bring myself down to your level - you can’t color me with your language brush…
Reminds me of something an old indian woman taught me once. I met her by chance and she taught me how to make an indian necklace. She said to avoid thinking that a person can be perfect (like the gods) I had to purpously leave one mistake.
I worked for a couple hours, and when I returned for some guidence she said “I said one mistake. Not 10.”