"trAins are stationAry; papER is stationERy."

"complIments are being nIce or gIfts; complEments are complEtion."

#Spelling

English orthography is insane. It's hard enough for those of us who are native speakers and we usually end up with reasonable spelling but there are exceptions. I would never ever assume someone with spelling errors was less intelligent or make fun of *them personally*. Yes make fun of the weirdness. So many people confuse 'desert' and 'dessert' making a joke about eating sand is fair game IMO. We all make tpyos. Laugh together not at people eh?

I put this in the same category as assuming people with a southern drawl are less intelligent. Stop it.

#Spelling #Orthography #Life #EnglishOrthography #Dyslexia #Language #Linguistics

Come on Barnes and Nodule, this is a really simple one to fix and it makes you look careless. It's not like this is even an edge condition, it'll happen all the time.

#SoftwareTesting #Spelling #CountingIsNotHard #Math
#BarnesNoble

Het Groot Dictee der Nederlandse Taal komt er weer aan! Een goed moment om eens stil te staan bij onze spelling. In de podcast 'Over taal gesproken' gaan Laura van Eerten (INT) en Raymond Noë (Onze Taal) in gesprek met taaladviseur Roos de Bruyn.
#spelling #dictee #podcast

https://ivdnt.org/actueel/nieuws/podcast-spelling-de-belangrijkste-bijzaak-in-het-leven/

Recently, my wife and I were watching an old episode of Morse (British crime/whodunnit from the 80s-00s). In it, Morse insists apologise should be spelt with a zed.

Wife and screamed at the TV - as you do.

Where the fuck did that idea come from? Don't say, the yanks. This is entirely on the Poms.

#TV #Morse #Spelling #British

You have no idea how much I have to bite my tongue when I see someone type 'viola' instead of 'voila'

#Pedant #Spelling #Music #Humour

"The following groups of words illustrate variations in spelling that may occur in roots or inflectional endings of related words in different parts of speech."

Spelling and Vocabulary for the Secretary
by Long, Tillett, and Woodbridge
for Katharine Gibbs School, New York

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After I became a proofreader, my dad gave me this reference book, which belonged to my grandmother who I never met. She traveled to New York to attend Katharine Gibbs School in the 1930s and later became a chief administrator at Duke Hospital.

She must have used this book quite often. It is worn and filled with her handwritten notes. I wish I could have connected with her as a fellow word nerd.

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#page42 #pagina42 #hashtaggames
• Grab the nearest book.
• Turn to page 42.
• Find the 2nd sentence.
• Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag and write the rules as a comment to it.
• Don't look for your favorite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
• Don’t forget the hashtags.

#proofreading #spelling #secretary #bookstodon #book

The #1 best feature of the iPhone, hands down, is when one types dessert or desert, it shows an icon of which one it means.

#humor #apple #iphone #spelling

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🎙️ **The Dictionary Wars! with Gabe Henry**

"_Fellow word-nerd Gabe Henry, author of Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell, joins Sarah as they chummily pun their way through the story of the 18th century Dictionary Wars, the story of the publishing battles fought between a handful of eccentric word-lovers in The US and England, all vying for the future supremacy of their own spellings._"

🔗 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/episodes/18167694-the-dictionary-wars-with-gabe-henry.

#Audio #Podcast #Words #English #Language #Spelling