i before e, except after c?
silent e at the end of a word with a long vowel in the center?
at times, who in the abc really knows?
in the recent comedy, ‘bad words,’
jason bateman plays an adult who participates in a kids’ spelling bee
and is required to spell the word,
‘floccinaucinihilipilification.’
(the action or habit of estimating something as worthless)
ouch.
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“The story’s what matters; spelling’s overrated.” ― Adam Langer, The Salinger Contract
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image credits: focus features, growing jeweled rose.com
Floccin…What? Is that truly a word, good grief I live under a rock. 🙂 very good hun xx
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i know, jen! help, and yes it is )
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🙂 I live and learn xx
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AMEN and thank you !!!!!!!!
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happy you agree, chatter )
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Oh, this is so wonderful!
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thanks, roy )
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Love it!
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thanks, becwill )
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Seems to me that “floccinaucinihilipilificatin,” is useless:) LOL I always wonder about those who made up our words. Were they just kidding around? And why is aisle, and a million other words, spelled in such a silly way?
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i agree, har and funny that is kind of the definition of the word ) i know, i’ve often wondered about the origin of many words –
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Who can even pronounce that ridiculous word, yet alone use it. Can you just imagine being in a conversation with someone who said that. So silly. Great post – made me smile! Have a wonderful holiday weekend, Beth! ~Karen~
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i so agree and happy to make you smile, karen. have a great weekend too )
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I like “hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia” – the irrational fear of long words.
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oh, that is one of my favorite words ever!
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My dad tells a joke about a boy who did so badly in class that the teacher said, “Please, if you could just get one word right– or even one letter right– I will pass you. Try to spell COFFEE.” The boy tried, he really tried to get this one. He spelled it “K-A-W-P-H-Y.”
And today I heard this from ‘The World In Words’ about the Russian alphabet and the letter “e” or “ë”.
http://patrickcox.wordpress.com/2014/05/
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great story from your day and wild russian story about the e, thanks for sharing, lucy. i am endlessly fascinated by words and languages.
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🙂
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Thiss poast iz gud newz tu mee.
Russ
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hapee yew injoyd it rus.
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Of course, life before spell check was a never-ending dive into Webster for those of us who couldn’t follow these wonderful quotes you’ve unearthed for us, Beth. Hard-cover, color red, the same edition sat on various desks of mine at The Post-Standard for 29 years.
Poor Jason Bateman in that spelling bee.
Some common words get me all the time, achilles’ heels, if you will.
Rhythm trips me up, which was a bad case when I was writing about music.
Anybody else blind-spot word that always seems to get you, or am I worse off than I thought?
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i am with you on the spell check/dictionary conversion. even spell check is not always sure what we want to say or do though. i just do my best and not worry too much, but like you, some words are just the bane of my existence. i cannot, for the life of me, spell ‘souvenir’ or ‘vacuum’ correctly, along with many others. (auto correct fixed them for me here)
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Souvenir and vacuum are tough ones, Beth. I laugh sometimes when I am so stumped by a word that I can’t even come close enough for spell check to get me to the correct spelling!
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i think so too, and yes, i understand the spell check stump move, and then i just change my sentence somehow to fit the word i’m going to use instead )
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Oh, yes, the avoidance sentence. I know that one well, too. I think it has something to do with the Beddian birthday aging as well as the spelling. Just … can’t … quite … come … up … with … that … word … Just go with the next best one. Am I right, Beth?
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exactly, mark )
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I’ve mostly been vague on any spelling rules which weren’t sung by Charlie Brown and Linus while Snoopy plays that mouth harp.
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i totally understand and learned my grammar from school house rock.
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“Ouch” indeed – didn’t even know that such a word existed 🙂
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me either, eric )
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I imagine any spelling of that word ought to be considered correct.
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and you are so right in your thinking, andra.
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thank you for those quotes
i’m going to use them the next time ‘nobbly’ chastises me for using ‘american’ rather than ‘english’ spelling of some words 😆
(I think a lot of words, in any case, have too many letters. If a letter is ‘silent’, i.e., not pronounced, then there is no point in having it there. Get rid of it, I say) 😆
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absolutely, duncan. throw them out there as needed. and i agree about the pointlessness of some of the rules.
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Too tru. I cudn’t agree mor!
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hahaha and i’m happy to make your daughter happy with a quote from a famous author who struggled with the concept of ‘correct spelling’ too )
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that is an awesome quote by a favorite author. Filing it away under: good. 🙂 (aka: gud)
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thanks, cc, me too )
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funny!
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My youngest is going to be delighted when i share that Mark Twain quote with her. 🙂
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i totelly agre Meth,
Yoo reely shood knot ned 2 sale werds cerrectly 2 bee understould du yu?
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nop timnardy, nop.
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There have been wonderful words I’ve stumbled over – schadenfreude – (taking a delight in another’s misfortune). That says it all.
As for creative spelling, I’ve run into it too often as a teacher. I point it out in the hopes that the student will remember how to do it correctly the next time. With friends, however, I’ll try to remember Mark Twain’s words and your delightful post, Beth.
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thanks, judy. and i am a word lover as well. )
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This got me chuckling about bad words, long words and Mark Twain’s take on spelling!
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always happy to make you chuckle, robin )
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You are funny, and the modern trend is toward simplifying language, which is a real shame. So many good words. 🙂 I’ve enjoyed catch up with you this morning. 🙂
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i agree, i love words too) and love to add them to my vocabulary, rather than deleting them – it’s been good to see you again this morning, my friend. i know that life gets busy for all of us and we come and go, but always good to see you – b
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I’m hoping to be done with my book in one week, and then I hope for a return to a more sane existence. Of course, my daughter will be out of school… LOL
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it’a always something………)
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So true!
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Hmm. What’s with the photo-shopped chicken on the movie poster?
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one of the early promo posters for the film )
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