I can never spell “guarantee” right, I always end up googling it. Maybe if I blog it I’ll be able to remember. Other words that I consistently mess up: “separate,” “Wednesday,” and “bourgeoisie.”
I can never spell “guarantee” right, I always end up googling it. Maybe if I blog it I’ll be able to remember. Other words that I consistently mess up: “separate,” “Wednesday,” and “bourgeoisie.”
Seeing as how your last post was “Open Sourc Frontier”, I’m guessing you can’t spell Source either. 🙂
I always have trouble with “occasion” – it always looks wrong to me. Do you find yourself using the word “bourgeoisie” often?
Oh man, I hate it when I misspell things in titles because then it lives forever in the permalink. For-ever.
Simon, more than you would think. For general edification: Wikipedia Bourgeoisie article.
So there was this old lady. She was married to a man named Septimus.
She really, really, really hated rats. All rodents, really, but rats in particular. Made her scream.
One day, she and hubby Sep were hanging out at home when, out of the corner of her eye, the old lady spied a rodent shape scurrying across the kitchen floor. She freaked out — jumping up, climbing on top of a stool, and exclaiming:
“Sep! A rat! Eeeeeeeee!”
That’s how I remember how to spell “separate.”
I’m a spelling pedant, and it pains me that I can’t ever get the proper spelling of “misspell” stuck in my head.
Ahh, you don’t know how glad I am to hear I’m not the only one.
i right clicked (ctrl click) in a textarea once chose “Spelling >” and then “Check Spelling as you Type” and now I don’t spell things wrong anymore 🙂
i always try to pronounce it like it’s spelled gwa-run-tee, i spel gud 🙂
ActiveWords has a great mispellings add-on that catches about 1800 common typos, including ‘guarantee’.
Taylor Mali also has a great but about spelling ‘definitely beautiful’ in his most excellent spoken word piece ‘What Teachers Make‘.
if you can see “a” “rat” you are spelling “separate” correctly
I remember Wednesday because it contains NES: the Nintendo Entertainment System. And a little bit of marriage in the front.
I know what you mean about “bourgeoisie”….I use it daily.
riiiight…
“tomarrow” – is what a highly educated teacher of mine trips over, repeatedly.
I too have a problem with “occasion”. Always looks wrong.
I used to always get “weird” wrong… I was always about the ‘i before e” but now I just have to constantly remember that “weird is spelled weirdly”.
And for separate, I used to think that it was two different spellings: I thought that “seperate” was the verb, and “separate” was the adjective… Whoopsy! 🙂
The firefox spell check extension for form fields is my savior. I personally blame spell check in general, whether it be from MS or otherwise, for my horrid spelling. Doubt a class-action suit is in the works though..
words i keep getting wrong (and might be wrong here): acquaintance (acquaintence?), occasion, kahlua.
Ryan: the full rule is ‘i before e except after c when pronouncing “eee”‘. I don’t know of any exceptions to that, as long as you pronounce ‘weird’ like ‘weir’ with a ‘d’ on the end, and not like ‘wee-urd’.
Sentence is one I always miss. SentEnce, not sentAnce. I think. Is it?
I never knew about a spellchecker extension for Mozilla. What I personally do is copy text from boxes (such as this) to KEdit and then press ALT T+S for a quick spellcheck. Highly recommended!