Tag: spelling
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October 07, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
This is the story of Akeelah Anderson, a precocious eleven yeara old from South Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite the objections of her mother Tanya (Angela Bassett), Akeelah enters various . . . more
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June 05, 2007 04:36 PM EDT --
How many words can you make by misspelling ‘plagiarism' backwards?
I can think of more than four.
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July 24, 2007 06:21 PM EDT --
I know a lot of people on Gather have ambitions to be published.
One thing that will keep me from reading your article is misspelling most of your words.
Grammatical errors are another issue. I . . . more
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August 09, 2007 11:17 AM EDT --
Okay, I've seen so many people doing this that I can't take it any more. I'm not the best speller in the world, but please, please, please stop using loose when you mean lose.
Loose . . . more
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September 08, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
I am not a great typist and I hate making typo's or spelling errors. Don't you wish we could spell and grammar check our articles here on Gather?
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February 24, 2008 10:42 PM EST --
Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~George Eliot, Middlemarch , 1872
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ~Mark Twain
Critics are . . . more
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April 14, 2007 09:00 PM EDT --
I recently received a chatty Gather email in which a writer lamented that he had received very few comments on his recent travel article. I read the article and discovered that it had several spelling . . . more
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June 20, 2008 11:17 PM EDT --
I know evaluating any single slice of the world at large and drawing a conclusion from it is bad science, okay? That being said, I guess I am not just looking at the internet on sites like Gather, . . . more
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July 30, 2007 11:58 AM EDT --
Those of you that have nothing better to do than criticize other people's spelling, didn't anyone ever tell you that it's rude. Who asked your opinion? I write some on a word processor, . . . more
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December 12, 2007 04:14 PM EST --
Does anybody care? I do. A lot spelled alot is simply wrong. I see it all the time. It's driving me nuts. Short trip you say? You have no idea. Do you have . . . more
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December 21, 2007 12:27 PM EST --
Just a fun game for a Friday -- let's see how many words we can come up with that are the same whether they are spelled forwards or backwards :-)
One response per post but feel free to make . . . more
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February 12, 2008 05:13 PM EST --
Charles and I were mailing a while back, and god asked unto me, "What's so hard about spelling plagiarist?" We'd been on a post decrying "plagerists." No doubt pop culture . . . more
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May 05, 2008 11:09 AM EDT --
What's wrong with Dick and Jane? I'll tell you. They are lost. They are lost and parents have gone mad. I used to love my name: Carol. Now, it's lost with Dick . . . more
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March 21, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
I decided to branch out a little in my gathering. Tonight, I decided to check out what all of this Borders stuff was about. I discovered that Borders is offering awards to people who join and critique . . . more
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November 18, 2007 04:25 PM EST --
While I personally found this game very easy because I can spell decently, I think this can be a great educational game for grade school children who have trouble with spelling. It may not be entirely . . . more
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November 28, 2007 04:58 PM EST --
My son has a spelling test on Friday and it's over Homophones. For ones that don't know what that means like me the other day it's words that sound the same but are spelled different. . . . more
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May 28, 2007 08:22 AM EDT --
Now I am not going to do this every day, but this word is used so often on this site and it is misspelled at least half the time it is used. Think of the word, "finite" and then put a 'de' . . . more
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August 13, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
Why is it, that so many people cannot spell? I don't mean large words, polysyllibic words, but simple words such as wear, or ask, or well, just about any short word. There is no distinction between . . . more
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June 03, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
At Home Depot: "Crape Myrtle $20."
Sign on a vacant lot by a church, "No thur traffic."
Hmmm...
~k
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October 31, 2006 05:34 PM EST --
I have recently become alarmed by the creeping disappearance of the "s" in American English. (I know.. too much time on my hands)...We've long been aware of the substitution of . . . more
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