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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 30th 2016, 3:33 pm
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

I so wanted not to say hoovered but the others didn't suit. :lol:
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 30th 2016, 2:46 pm
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

I'm wondering if I was brought up in an American family :ohmy:. We always talked about doing the vacuuming. A Hoover was an American produced vacuum cleaner and we would no more talk about Hoovering...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 30th 2016, 11:38 am
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

I'm actually surprised you're saying vacuum anyway. That's what Brits say - mind you, you're kind of honorary Brit anyway :lol: - whereas North Americans tend to call a vacuum cleaner a Hoover, even...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 30th 2016, 11:34 am
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

Vack-yoom. :lol:
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 28th 2016, 6:29 pm
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

Our pharmacy picks up interaction issues and the like very well.


My wife was prescribed that for her fibromyalgia.

Our prescriptions - family doc - are all handwritten.

We always looked...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 28th 2016, 5:32 pm
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

I was just about to say it doesn't matter how you spell it because you're a doctor and nobody but pharmacists can read your writing anyway. :p

Of course if the patient misreads it they probably...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 28th 2016, 12:39 am
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

What about any techniques for remembering the way to spell difficult words.

Beautiful. I recall as a child remembering the order of the vowels by saying to myself Bee - A (as in cat) - OO (but...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 27th 2016, 11:25 pm
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

I was just about to list about a dozen different Federal and Provincial examples of YYYY-MM-DD that I've actually done in the last two years and then I found a Province form wanting DD-MM-YYYY. ...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 25th 2016, 10:08 pm
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

Do you mean "the man in the street"? Every Cheque book, federal forms, provincial forms I've ever done...they all have YYYY-MM-DD either alongside where it wants the date or faintly printed in the...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 18th 2016, 10:47 am
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

:lol:

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...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Sep 18th 2016, 1:02 am
Replies: 105
Views: 4,804
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Words that are hard to spell...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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