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Title: Spelling rules
Post by: Garfish on December 25, 2013, 11:29:56 AM
I before E except  after C and also when you perform a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbour,
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: gordo350 on December 25, 2013, 11:36:05 AM
Have you been watching QI.?

gordo350

Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Garfish on December 25, 2013, 01:42:50 PM
No one of my friends is a grammar freak, always looking for correct spelling and lives to recite rules, found this online and thought I would share,
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: gordo350 on December 25, 2013, 03:00:12 PM
Apparently there are so many more non exceptions to that rule that it is considered wrong

gordo350

Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: speewa158 on December 25, 2013, 03:13:48 PM
Have you lot been into the cooking Sherry again  :cheers:
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Goose on December 25, 2013, 03:15:51 PM
Indeed
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Doweymex on December 26, 2013, 10:23:54 PM
There are about 44 spelling 'rules' like this, only 3 are correct all of the time and they are obscure ones that nobody remembers!!

Still dirty on my grade 3 teacher for giving me 9/10 in a spelling test. We had just gone through the stupid 'i before e' rule...got 'weight' in the test... Apparently to follow the rule doesn't count in those situations.  >:D
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: gordo350 on December 27, 2013, 05:40:14 AM
Have you lot been into the cooking Sherry again  :cheers:
Santa brought me a 4.5 lt bottle of chivas. I'm way clever now

gordo350

Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Hairs on December 27, 2013, 05:58:25 AM
My 11 year old boy corrected my 15 year old daughter about this the other day.
He pointed out that I before E except after C is wrong.
height
weight
freight

science
efficient

The English language is kinda weird at times and I think I need more caffeine  ;D
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: GeoffA on December 27, 2013, 06:10:28 AM
A little different, but I've often seen "defiantly" used when "definitely" was intended........ ;D ;D
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: BBwilly on December 27, 2013, 06:39:06 AM
It was determined that I had Dyslexia as a child but yet I had a high IQ yes I was ridiculed at school by others and put down but yet when it came to anything with numbers, puzzles, mechanical, sports both singular and team I excelled.

Is it something you can grow out of I am not sure but what I have found in later life that people that find the need to correct others etc are normally high archivers through school that did not achieve what they wanted in life.

As long as I can get my message across and people understand that is all that is required in my books not that I will pick up your spelling mistakes anyway ;D but the brain is a magnificent piece of engineering.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

We are all special people some of us more then others  ;D.
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: GeoffA on December 27, 2013, 06:49:38 AM
It was determined that I had Dyslexia as a child but yet I had a high IQ.......

That's not uncommon.
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Foo on December 27, 2013, 07:40:30 AM
Just because you can't spell the way the nerds want you to, doesn't make you dumb!

Foo
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Patr80l on December 27, 2013, 07:43:27 AM
I am reminded of the dyslexic agnostic insomniac.

He used to lie awake all night wondering if there really was a dog.
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Patr80l on December 27, 2013, 07:48:00 AM
Said the instructor to the student pilot. "If you don't correct your yaw, you're going to crash."
The guy in the lift pushed the button for the second floor then asked me "which floor?"   I said, "I'm going to two too."

Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Garfish on December 27, 2013, 08:25:32 AM
Said the instructor to the student pilot. "If you don't correct your yaw, you're going to crash."
The guy in the lift pushed the button for the second floor then asked me "which floor?"   I said, "I'm going to two too."

And people wonder why English is extremely difficult to learn as a second language.   
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: richardl on December 27, 2013, 08:32:32 AM
Two was a racehorse, one was one too. One won one race two won one too
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: lino6 on December 27, 2013, 01:04:56 PM
Its all about knowing your s#!t or knowing you're s#!t  ;D
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Hairs on December 27, 2013, 01:26:04 PM
Said the instructor to the student pilot. "If you don't correct your yaw, you're going to crash."
The guy in the lift pushed the button for the second floor then asked me "which floor?"   I said, "I'm going to two too."
You're wangling up your tords again  ;D
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Beatle on December 27, 2013, 08:01:26 PM
A little different, but I've often seen "defiantly" used when "definitely" was intended........ ;D ;D
  You can blame spellchecker for that
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: Barrabart on December 27, 2013, 08:27:44 PM
I reckon my PNG mates have it sorted........ just spell it the way u say it..... Tok Pisin (Talk Pidgin)...... makes a lot of sense.

Some examples of pisin spelt, english words off the top of my head.....

Thank you - tanku
true - tru
belong - bilong or sometimes just blong.
good - gud
altogether - olgeta
power - powa
house - haus
that's all - tasol
secondary - sekondri
bugger up / broken - bagarup
thinking - tingting
water - wara (remember these fella's roll there R's)
fellow - pela (and they pronounce F with the P sound)
fasten - pasim
big - bik
easy - isi
door - dua
rubbish - rubis
smoke - simuk



and terms like...... where are you? They say........ u stop where?
close the door gently! .......... U pasim dua isi!!
morning greeting to a room full of people........ Mornin olgeta!!


No need to make it complicated. ;D





Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: shaned on December 29, 2013, 06:12:01 AM
Proper gramma can be real important, commas especially if you are going the text.

I am going to help uncle Jack off a horse.

I am going to help uncle Jack, off a horse.

I am going to help uncle, jack off a horse.

Not only can little comma can make a big difference, but also where you put it.




Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: fishfinder on December 29, 2013, 06:23:21 AM
I going to leave him on the old ba----d keeps drinking me beer
Title: Re: Spelling rules
Post by: SteveandViv on December 30, 2013, 11:49:57 AM
  You can blame spellchecker for that

Yea, spell check does that all the time and it's easy to miss.

Personally I hate the words that end in "re" Centre and prefer to use US spelling Center - stupid language we have. To, Two, is too much.

And it's p1ssisng down again Ya - not  :'(