How is your Spelling?

My spelling is adequate I guess. But I am happy that my computer corrects all the misspelled words I type. I always have a problem with the word Necessary. Maybe it is my brain, but who knows. I never considered myself a great speller anyway. I sometimes have to go to an online dictionary to check my spelling if I am not totally sure. But like I said, my computer seems to know exactly what I am typing. Nice!!!

I do that thing for beautiful, too! Another leftover from my school days is "fri your ends" to remember how to spell "friends". "I before E except after C or as sounded as A as in neighbor and weigh" is another. One word I nearly always misspell is niece (there, I just had to correct it!) for some reason. My computer underlines misspelled words, which helps, but I usually know before I finish the word that I've misspelled it. I'm very grateful to my elementary school teachers who were very picky about spelling and grammar. They all said (and my mother, too) that people will judge you first by how you speak and secondly by how you express yourself in writing. Any misspelling or grammar mistakes will make people think that you are ignorant and uneducated. That sort of judgment was considered very limiting back then in the 50s and 60s.

Spelling has never really presented any problem for me, in fact I cannot remember any occasion when it has. I do however regularly fall prey to mistyping words. I am not a typist but have become quite proficient using 2 fingers to type. The problem is that I often tend to depress the keys out of sequence, so I have to go back and correct the error. I am quite pedantic when it comes to grammar an punctuation, but find myself very tolerant with others who struggle with spelling. English is a very idiosyncratic language and there are no easy rules that govern spelling, therefore it is necessary to become familiar with most words to eliminate the danger of poor spelling. It would be so much easier if our language was phonetic.

I'm a terrible speller, if it weren't for spell check my responses would be full of misspelled words. Being from the northeast I tend to say "warsh" instead of "wash" and I've yet to figure out what that dumb "w" is doing in "answer"

I get lost when I start using the word facade since it is pronounced as fah-sahd. But I also get to confused with occasion. There several words I get stomped with but too bad I forgot them. HAHAHA! Sometimes I get too conscious about my grammar I jumble the letters.

Once upon a time my uncle could not remember the spelling of 'lieutenant'. He had mastered the spelling remembering like '' hey, lie, u ? ten ants''lol. Later times I have adopted the trick. Another word for remembering the spelling of which word, I had suffered the most is 'bureau'. Its like ''b urea u''. Urea is a name of fertilizer.lol Diarrhea is like ''di arr hea''. Yet the tricks are matter of practice.

Thank goodness for spell check, especially on my tablet and phone. I can usually respond back faster from my computer but then a lot more spelling mistakes come. I used to be really good at spelling when I was younger but with age you sometimes forget. But spell check is a total godsend.

Hi GreenMoo, I'm here to learn language. And of course not good in spelling especially for words that I'm not familiar with. Therefore online dictionary is essential for me when reading posts here. Yeah, spell-checker is a must for me as well when typing post here. Enthusiasm and some other words always seem like common fault for me. The u and s is always placing in the incorrect place when typing Enthusiasm I have to adjust the letter until the red line is not available lol... Happy posting and have a nice day!

Not with spelling but with names I sometimes have to coordinate it with something in my life so I can remember someone's name..spelling I do have to look up words on occasion....have you ever beem writing a word and you know it's right but it just doesn't look like it? LOL

My smelling is very guud. Ayes yoo kan sea their r know miss teighks in thees risppons.

I remember when I was in 3rd grade, me and my best friend were chosen to represent the class in a local spelling bee contest. I think it was the third round when I got eliminated for the word 'thief', and my best friend eliminated after me for the word 'beautiful'. It was a good learning experience for me, as I always feel uneasy when I see a word I write incorrectly spelled.

I am pretty good at it but do sometimes check my 'spell check'. That reminds me. Here is a poem on pc spell checks: - Beware! [i]A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers... Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew.[/i]

I am very much careful about spelling. But still I often misspell.

I've always been really good at spelling and grammar. For the most part, I think I'm a pretty good speller. There are a few words that do kind of stump me for a second but I'm usually able to remember how to spell them. Spell check definitely helps a lot though. My mac laptop even has it for when I'm typing on the internet! So sometimes while I'm myLotting and I misspell a word, there will be a red underline under the word to let me know that it's spelled wrong. I like having spellcheck because I really don't like to get words wrong lol

I have always been fairly good at spelling. There are a few words that I always mix up, which is a common issue for many people; thankfully, spell check catches those. I do think that spending too much time online can have a detrimental effect on spelling and grammar. We already know that texting may foster bad spelling and grammar; I suspect that the same is true of spending a lot of time online.

I think my spelling is really good. It was a favorite subject of mine in school but I do find myself misspelling things. Sometimes I'll be sure about a word but because I haven't written it or seen it in so long I'll hesitate on it. A word I had a problem with in school was Wednesday. It doesn't sound like its spelled. My mother helped me with it though by sounding it out this way for me Wed-nes-day. I still say it like this when I'm writing it so I don't mess up lol.