Are you any good at spelling?

[Andy_Euph]

After seeing something on the news the other day, i'm just wondering how many tmpers are actually good spellers. In a little test they did on Look North only 1 out of 10 people could spell all the words correctly on the test.

Personally i'm a totally shocking at spelling's, always used to get detentions for getting really low marks in tests at school (probably had something to do with me not learning the words like )

 

[Naomi McFadyen]

Are you any good at spelling?

No :biggrin:

 

[mikelyons]

I can spell any word I can pronounce - even in foreign

 

[Naomi McFadyen]

I can spell any word I can pronounce - even in foreign

thats impressive! I'll have to test you one day..... when we eventually meet!


edit: just a thought.... if I said that, it wouldnt be many words...... so it may not be impressive after-all! :lol: ;-)

 

[mikelyons]

When I was little my aunty used to make me sit with a dictionary and write out all the words and their definitions. She was trying to improve my hand writing and failed miserably. However, a side-effect was that by the age of 7 I had a reading age of 21.

 

[Naomi McFadyen]

Very cool!

(i did just put cool but the message was too short! :lol: )

 

[mikelyons]

S'OK I prefer fulsome praise to faint praise any day

 

[Heather]

When I was at HIgh School I won a spelling contest where everyone in the school took part.
I came out on top and got a £50 book voucher, cup and an article in the local newspaper!!

 

[drummergurl]

when i was 8 i had a reading age of around 16,
and my spelling is better than what you normally see from me, i think mine is because, being a twin, i used to want to do better than my twin brother, and i always did do better. also i dont really remember having to actually try very hard with spellings, i think it kinda came naturally, i think i was just good at my spellings. and i always wondered how people managed to spell things wrong when i could spell them easily.

also i think with my reading age being as high as it was then, i was used to seeing how words were spelt, and memorised it unconsiously (ok i dont know how you spell that word)

 

[Jezzabell]

Nope cant spell at all!

 

[lynchie]

When I was 3 I had a reading age of 27... or maybe not... anyway, I can spell, but whenever I spell something wrong, it's simply because I'm foreign...

 

[WoodenFlugel]

When I was 3 I had a reading age of 27... or maybe not... anyway, I can spell, but whenever I spell something wrong, it's simply because I'm foreign...

Don't you know it's a proven fact that all good engineers are rubish spelerz

 

[kate_the_horn]

i was never an awful speller at school, but i cant spell things out aloud, i have to write them down.

its getting late and my spellings are still quite terrific!!
k x

 

[mikelyons]

unconsciously (ok i dont know how you spell that word)

There you go! You can learn this one now - another c after the first s, like science

 

[super_sop]

Nufink rong wiht my smelliong.

me tiepin is pritty good two

 

[kate_the_horn]

super sop

 

[Nigel Hall]

It's not just spelling that seems to be getting worse but I notice a lot of grammatical errors as well. Now, call me a fussy old f**t (and many people do!) but I really hate seeing things like "your always correcting me" instead of "you're always correcting me" and using there and their in the wrong context.


Anyway, rant over - Fussy old f**t going away now!

 

[Mrs Fruity]

GGGRRRRR! Don't start me off! Pet hates - definately, and - grammatically- could of, should of, and I think I'm repeating myself from a thread of last year -SORRY.
Right - I'm off to boil my head now.

 

[bigmamabadger]

GGGRRRRR! Don't start me off! Pet hates - definately, and - grammatically- could of, should of, and I think I'm repeating myself from a thread of last year -SORRY.
Right - I'm off to boil my head now.

Couldn't agree more. And of course that dammned apostrophe....
We once saw a menu in Cornwall which stated that the menu "chang'es every day"
I don't care if I am a BOC, grammar is important!
BMB
xx

 

[louise0502]

When I started secondary school, my reading age was 15 and on entering college now, it's reached the grand old age of... 15 (still)!