Spell it right... First or Frist

@Orson_Kart (6803)

• United Kingdom

28 Oct

I was hoping to be the ‘first’ to comment. Turns out I’m the ‘frist’

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (92047)

• United States

28 Oct

@Orson_Kart lol. Life has a way of being like that sometimes. So long as you're not "lrast."

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@abhi_bangal (5523)

• Ahmednagar, India

28 Oct

There is no question that it is "first". But as I said, I don't know what it happened the other day as the "first" and "frist" came out to drink my blood

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (179874)

• United States

29 Oct

You write the English language very well. Occasionally I will have to look up the spelling for a word but not that often. Have a good day.

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@abhi_bangal (5523)

• Ahmednagar, India

29 Oct

Oh come on! I'm flattered by your words. If you say I write the English language very well, then well it might be

Yes at times it happens that we have to refer to the spellings of random words in a dictionary. However, the chances of these happening are not too much.

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@abhi_bangal (5523)

• Ahmednagar, India

29 Oct

@LindaOHio Yeah. I've seen the same. As far as people from India are concerned, I have also observed that. I'd like to tell you that people, especially from south India are quite fluent in English. It's almost like their mother tongue. And even our friend also writes correct English, as your are saying.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (179874)

• United States

29 Oct

@abhi_bangal I'm surprised at how many people here from foreign countries write English very well.

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@Orson_Kart (6803)

• United Kingdom

28 Oct

Sometimes it’s a form of dyslexia that makes us doubt the correct way to spell words. The i before e is definitely a conundrum. The rule we learned at school “I before E except after C” is not correct, as there are more the other way round. Confusing? Yes.

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@abhi_bangal (5523)

• Ahmednagar, India

28 Oct

Yes mate. Confusing

. But yes, I recalled my school days and a few rules to go with...

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Always smiling

@allknowing (137061)

• India

28 Oct

We were asked to remember the name Alice where yoiu will know it is always i after l and e after c (believe, receive for example)

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@Orson_Kart (6803)

• United Kingdom

28 Oct

@allknowing I’ve not heard that one. It does work in your example, but not in leisure or ceiling. What about beige, feint, reign? Nightmare!

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (107025)

• Marion, Ohio

28 Oct

Some just drive you crazy at times

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@abhi_bangal (5523)

• Ahmednagar, India

28 Oct

I agree. At times they are just so simple but I don't know how it is possible that language can drive us crazy

It becomes quite interesting at times

@abhi_bangal (5523)

• Ahmednagar, India

28 Oct

@Orson_Kart Yes even that's true. At some point, it's possible that we are driven crazy by something that's simple but still comes out as being exceptional. Magic!

@Orson_Kart (6803)

• United Kingdom

28 Oct

Or occasionally carzy!

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Yumeko

@aureategloom (10147)

• Bosnia And Herzegovina

28 Oct

it happens to me sometimes, usually some random words... sometimes even in my native language

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@abhi_bangal (5523)

• Ahmednagar, India

29 Oct

I can totally relate. This thing can happen in our native language, in our mother tongue...

What I realized is that it happens with spellings of simple words. And they aren't at all complicated to spell. Still...

Yumeko

@aureategloom (10147)

• Bosnia And Herzegovina

31 Oct

@abhi_bangal in bosnian language i sometimes have doubts with writing -ije i -je because there's no difference when you speak it. there's a rule for how to determine which one to use in writing - but some words just look so weird

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Yumeko

@aureategloom (10147)

• Bosnia And Herzegovina

1 Nov

@abhi_bangal also, there are words that look the same, but have different accents and mean different things in bosnian language

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Greenery8

@grenery8 (10806)

• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)

29 Oct

if english is not your mother tongue, i think it's perfectly normal to rely on a dictionary a few times. i sometimes type in a hury and type the letter near the letter that i needed to use

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@abhi_bangal (5523)

• Ahmednagar, India

30 Oct

Quite similar to me. When I use a physical traditional keyboard, at times "the" becomes "teh". Of course, it's just because the fingers run so quickly on the keyboard that before the expected key, the following key gets pressed, and the spelling changes like the one that I have given an example of. It happens to me the most number of times. But because there is auto correct, it's not quite a major headache for me to go back and keep things changing over and over again.

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@abhi_bangal (5523)

• Ahmednagar, India

30 Oct

@grenery8 Hey come on. You are saying you don't have autocorrect. What kind of software are you using. I mean, please don't take me wrong. But I'm curious to know. I'm curious because almost all writing software these days have this feature. And if it's not, I will say, it's time.

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Greenery8

@grenery8 (10806)

• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)

30 Oct

@abhi_bangal i don't have autocorrect

.it was making my writing more difficult.and,you're right,in a hurry, everything is possible.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (93313)

• United States

28 Oct

I remember looking at the word, “whichever”, and being unsure if that was correct. I stared at the word, my instinct saying it was spelled correctly, but it just not looking right. Eventually, I stopped questioning myself, and moved on with my writing that say.

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