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« Reply #15 on: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 21:16:06 »

I do not think this thread would benefit from my input.  I am dyslecxic (sp) and quite proud
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« Reply #16 on: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 21:42:41 »

I'm just a spastic  Shocked
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« Reply #17 on: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 22:39:11 »

languorous always gets me, I can never remember which way around the u and the o are.
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« Reply #18 on: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 22:47:22 »

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languorous always gets me, I can never remember which way around the u and the o are.


  Yep...think I'd have gone for ou rather than the correct uo.  

   manoeuvre... I always have to check. Think its meant to be a dipthong, which generally seem to have disappeared from spelling.  Which is probably a good thing.
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« Reply #19 on: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 22:48:54 »

I'm sure MS Word used to adjust the text for dipthongs, not sure if it still does.
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« Reply #20 on: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 23:35:05 »

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Where, wear, ware

Were, whirr, we're
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« Reply #21 on: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 23:36:14 »

Bangkok surely it should be Bancock? or is that just my deslexier shinning thourgh?
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« Reply #22 on: Thursday, January 17, 2008, 23:40:08 »

I once knew a lezza who did that.
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« Reply #23 on: Friday, January 18, 2008, 08:12:04 »

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Where, wear, ware


You beat me to it, but first I checked and find that ware is not a word on it's own.


It is in the Oxford English Dictionary.


In fact, in a burst of irony,  I believe 'ware' appears in the nursery rhyme

"Simple Simon met a pieman..."
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« Reply #24 on: Friday, January 18, 2008, 08:40:28 »

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not so much as looks wrong. I find it difficult not to use the possessive noun 's on it. I'm always writing something along the lines of "it's cheese" instead of "its cheese".

Wait is that the right way round?

Yes, bizarrely "it's" is a contraction of it is rather than, as one might imagine, the posessive, which is "its". No, don't thank me.
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« Reply #25 on: Friday, January 18, 2008, 08:41:21 »

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not so much as looks wrong. I find it difficult not to use the possessive noun 's on it. I'm always writing something along the lines of "it's cheese" instead of "its cheese".

Wait is that the right way round?

Yes, bizarrely "it's" is a contraction of it is rather than, as one might imagine, the posessive, which is "its". No, don't thank me.

*possessive.

FFS, getting a typo in a pedantry post. What an arse.
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« Reply #26 on: Friday, January 18, 2008, 08:44:02 »

I just realised that my it's cheese example is pretty ambiguous.
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« Reply #27 on: Friday, January 18, 2008, 11:48:09 »

unless you state it in a full sentence, yes.
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« Reply #28 on: Friday, January 18, 2008, 11:51:23 »

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« Reply #29 on: Friday, January 18, 2008, 11:59:13 »

recipe (sp) always gets me.
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