Do you use tricks for spelling?
For me I spell Harpo first, then reverse it to Oprah. Do you have any similar tricks for writing or spelling? Do you have any tricks in general?
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Oprah’s giant production facility here in Chicago was Harpo Studios. Lots of jobs lost when it closed.
Anyway…
1)
“i before e except after c” is a good one.
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After the “M”, Mississippi has all double consonants.
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Tchoupitoulas is spelled “Tchoupitoulas” New Orleans joke
I know that in Canada, I use ‘ou’ as in ‘colour’, but in the states it is ‘color’
Yes. My trick is to remember the letters that form a word, and the order in which the letters are meant to be—and then I spell the word correctly.
I before e except after c unless it sounds like an a helps a lot. Back in school, when studying for a spelling test, I would sound the word out just like it looked and then write it that way during the test.
@RedDeerGuy1 It’s not a perfect system. There are exceptions!
I have a handful of words I always want to spell incorrectly. For those, I just remember the word pronounced in a way that lets me notice every letter. For example, “definitely” would be “de-fi-ni-te-ly”. That’s not one of them, though. “Address” is one.
To remember which version has double s, you would want a second helping of dessert, so double s.
You would not want to be stranded in a desert more than once, so only one s.
NEITHER LEISURE FOREIGNER SEIZED THE WEIRD HEIGHTS.
Yes it’s a slightly weird sentence and obviously nothing covers every single exception, but that sentence contains six of the words you’re most likely going to need in ordinary everyday writing.
So, if you memorize the sentence, you’re six words ahead of everybody else :)
@kritiper
I was taught to add a second rhyming sentence following the I before e rhyme:
“or when sounded like ay, as in neighbor and weigh.”
I like it because it contains two of them right in the rhyme for an example :)
“NEITHER LEISURE FOREIGNER SEIZED THE WEIRD HEIGHTS.”
I had no idea that Bob Dylan was writing spelling tricks. ;-)
My biggest spelling “trick” these days is to use Word spellcheck or a spelling website.
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