If nothing else the last 10 years of posting on PFF have helped me be a better speller. I also type faster Keep your book, I have spell check and a thesaurus.
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normsf Member
Posts: 1682 From: mishawaka, In Registered: Oct 2003
I can't recall ever spelling anything wrong, though I'm sure there has been the odd typo. Maybe something in the drunk thread.. I vaguely remember posting there once.
PK still needs it. Bad. If I think of spelling errors his posts just pop up in my thoughts. If I see any other people that need it I'll return to this thread
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spark1 Member
Posts: 11159 From: Benton County, OR Registered: Dec 2002
How about wrong words the spell checker won't catch? Like:
Accept for Except Affect for Effect Break for Brake Bear for Bare (wire) Than for Then There for Their or They're To for Too or Two Your for You're etc.?
That's why we need grammer grammar police!
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Rallaster Member
Posts: 9105 From: Indy southside, IN Registered: Jul 2009
How about wrong words the spell checker won't catch? Like:
Accept for Except Affect for Effect Break for Brake Bear for Bare (wire) Than for Then There for Their or They're To for Too or Two Your for You're etc.?
That's why we need grammer grammar police!
AAhhh!! Grammar, I HATE grammar!
Have you ever said a word enough times that it starts to sound really weird? Grammar is one of those words.
I suppose you have heard the English spelling rule, "I before E, except after C". It covers most of the bases: "thief," "grief," "believe," "relieve," etc., or (after "c") "receive," "ceiling," "conceit," etc. This rule, essentially applies to "ie" or "ei" which have an "ee" (long e) sound. Others (ay or other sounds) are usually spelled "ei." Here are some words with these other sounds:
beige feint feisty foreign forfeit heifer height heir heist neighbor reign rein seismometer their veil vein weigh (weight) Then there are quite a few exceptions ("ee" sound, but spelled "ei"):
codeine either Keith leisure neither seize weird Or not an "ee" sound, but spelled "ie":
friend hierarchy, hieroglyphics Of course "either" and "neither" are pronounced differently (and are not exceptions to the rule) outside the USA.
A few words have a syllable break between the two vowels ("deity," "science"), and their spellings are fairly obvious. Most foreign words retain their foreign spelling: "concierge," "Heimlich," "leitmotif." And words with prefixes and suffixes ("being," "deice" (usually spelled "de-ice") "reinvent") should be obvious.
According to The Complete Word Book by Mary A. DeVries, this is the entire "i before e" spelling rule:
Use i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor or weigh; and except seize and seizure and also leisure, weird, height, and either, forfeit, and neither.
As you can see, this covers most of the cases.
I also have iespell on my computers for when I need to check spelling. http://iespell.com/
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Dec 13th, 2010
Cheever3000 Member
Posts: 12400 From: The Man from Tallahassee Registered: Aug 2001
Funny, I was just thinking that reading internet forums and facebook statuses are making me a worse speller. I've caught myself typing are instead of our. I never did that before.
