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Spelling Bee should have been compulsory

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Ontheedgeofit · 22/08/2025 09:26

Just a little light hearted post to seek out fellow spelling nerds…

I have been scrolling through a second hand clothing / preloved items app and the number of times somebody has explained that an item has sequence and not sequins is mind blowing.

Such a lovely blue sequenced dress…. 😳🤣

Any other favourites?

PS I’ve had to double check my own post for any faults of my own 😂😂😂 but besides for my iPhone auto correcting favourites to favorites, I think I’m safe!

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WiddlinDiddlin · 23/08/2025 16:14

I am a massive hypocrite as my understanding of punctuation and grammar rules is abysmal for someone who frequently gets paid to write (write, not edit!).

I am also a very lazy writer on forums, and spend a large part of most days writing very conversationally to clients via a real time messenger portal, so I will forget to capitalise 'I' and I'll use American spellings and slang (particularly when actually talking to people in the USA).

I also type very quickly and often my fingers will put in the wrong word without my brains knowledge, so I might think 'cue' and write 'queue' or vice versa!

Language always evolves and we're likely to see what I think of as a slide back to earlier times when spelling was widely considered optional and sentence structure rather different!

What really pisses me off though, is people who are not dyslexic, who get very riled at others not understanding what they say, but won't do a thing to improve their written communications. They're almost always asking for help with something, often feel as if someone owes them that help, but will not make it easier for that person to understand what it is they need!

It is pure laziness when someone writes 'Ano' instead of 'I know', or to not break up sentences with commas and full stops, or use paragraphs.

The other thing that rather irrationally gets on my wick is 'sth' or 'smth'. Abbreviating phrases, or several words, such as BRB or shortening words like 'identification' to ID is fine, but 'sth' or 'smth' for 'something' truly grinds my gears!

I tend to sit on my hands when people use the wrong word or incorrect spelling, particularly if it is just once. If they repeatedly use the wrong word, where that word has a totally different meaning to the one they intended or in fact the opposite meaning, then depending on context, I might say something.

Eg. 'defiantly' vs 'definitely' - being definite vs defiant are two very different things!

There is someone I know who uses 'thew' instead of 'few' which frankly, baffles me and I think it's related to his accent as well as dyslexia!

TheNightingalesStarling · 23/08/2025 16:37

CyanDreamer · 23/08/2025 15:39

your little darling not being the best means you think it's "humiliating" for the school to hold a spelling bee.

Lack of resilience is the most polite and kindest way I can describe that attitude.

You don't think its humiliation for someone to have to publicly display a disability?

Would you expect a child with mobility issues to have to run sprint in front of the whole school for example?

CyanDreamer · 23/08/2025 17:56

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TheNightingalesStarling · 23/08/2025 17:58

My DD might not be able to spell but at least she has manners, dignity and is a genuinely nice person.

CyanDreamer · 23/08/2025 19:08

TheNightingalesStarling · 23/08/2025 17:58

My DD might not be able to spell but at least she has manners, dignity and is a genuinely nice person.

Why does it have to be one or the other?

People can have both.

I am not sure why you asked for my post to be deleted, is it really not possible to have different opinions? I am being shamed by having the post deleted , it's humiliating 😂

millymollyminging · 23/08/2025 19:19

Discrete instead of discreet. I read a bloody novel with the wrong one recently!!!! Too many exclamation marks is another! 😉

Ontheedgeofit · 23/08/2025 20:18

My golly, their are a lot of posters with there nickers in a not tonite 🤣😂

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Ontheedgeofit · 04/09/2025 17:12

Using this as a personal record of the stuff I come across. This time from my SD who is studying to be a teacher talking about her Mum:

could not of been blessed more…

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