BristolUK

This is something I'm spared from, not having these devices that do such things. It always seems a bit weird though because aren't these things more likely to have text speak and other abbrevs used and as such are more likely to have them corrected?

Shard

On a positive note, this thread has placed the correct spelling of spinach in my head Think I will celebrate by having a nice ham cheese sandwhich.

not2old

To the theme of this thread, for me, it's not simply the 'misspelled words', it is also comprehension, add to that the sesquipedalians that I have difficulty with.

I use IE for my browser, rarely if ever use a spell/grammar checker.

I'll come clean: my formal education was to age 13 (grade 7-8 Canada/USA), I was pulled out of school, even though passing the 11+, I never made it to grammar school. In the years that followed I tried making up the lost instructional English lessons. It just never worked. I concentrated on Mathematics, Science & Engineering with English as the last subject of some interest, including the classics or 'Bard's vocabulary' these were of zero interest.

All through my life I have struggled with 'spelling, grammar & comprehension' & still do. If I see a word or sentence that I do not grasp, then a simple google usually solves it

Shard

Why were you pulled out of school? Didn't you end up becoming an accountant or something?

Novocastrian

Do not, under any circumstances, add honey & mustard dressing.

not2old

its too personal to respond.



No to being an "Accountant", like most everyone, yes to being "something"



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Oink

Did anyone else have a Speak and Spell when they were a kid?

scrubbedexpat091

I did. Not sure if it helped any, but I played with it all the time.


I had a few different talking toys, I think my parents thought I was lonely since I didn't have friends....

Shard

I should think not, how awful. No butter either!

Shard

No, they hadn't been invented yet!

Oakvillian

Mostly the ones that catch me out are where I need to check whether I'm writing in US or British or Canadian English. So judgement vs judgment or acknowledgement vs acknowledgment occasionally throw me for a loop.

Also fulfillment vs fulfilment - though that has an additional layer of potential confusion as the former is (in British English) the act of fulfilling (picking and packing an online order in a warehouse, for example) whereas the latter is the state of being fulfilled (e.g. after a good meal or the accomplishment of a difficult but rewarding task).

But then, I was one of those infuriating swots at school who got annoyed if I dropped any marks on spelling tests.

Oink

I'm not sure we ever had spelling tests in class, we had sheets with word games but I can't recall a specific spelling test. I remember we had to collect points from the scores on our word and number puzzles and we'd then turn them in at the end of the week for candy. The PC brigade would let that happen these days.

mikelincs

We did, we had 10 words each morning in primary school. along with the times tables.

Oink

Not sure the lack of them has ever been an issue. With hindsight I would liked the teachers to have put a greater emphasis on the benefits of editing and proofreading.

scrubbedexpat091

Topic of spelling got me thinking about a job interview I had back around 2013, and the fact it included a spelling test,had some words on it that I had never heard of let alone know how to spell.

They listed works spelled both correctly and incorrectly and you had to decided which was correct and which was not correct.

Most odd interview, at least they called to tell me my spelling wasn't good enough....