Confession Time! What word can you just NOT seem to remember how to spell? No matter how hard I try, I can never get "separate" right!
I don't really have spelling issues...I do question myself on broccoli and zucchini sometimes, but other than my shopping list when do I use those words in writing? (and I spelled them right anyway, I just question those double Cs at times...) I am bothered by the misuse of principal and principle, loose and lose (rampant on the forums for some strange reason)...
I'm fine in regular writing, but every once in a while I freeze up on the board - everything looks strange sometimes in big letters! I was so embarrassed the other day - I froze on "haven't"... with a parent in the room! Come on, I can spell that! What was I thinking?
I am the world's worst speller and I think is it because I learned to read with Dick, Jane, Sally, and Spot I couldn't even begin to list all the words I can't spell. But my biggest pet peeve isn't spelling but the use of the word "alot". A LOT is two words not one
camouflage. I had trouble spelling cappuccino today, but I think that's the 1st time I've ever had to put it in writing. I always second guess myself on vacuum as well.
DEFINITELY have trouble with definitely, vacuum (thank goodness for the red squiggle lines, because I spelled that wrong ), and thorough.
I don't have many spelling issues but there are a few that can trip me up. In the past, occasion, necessary, embarrassed, separate, broccoli would trip me up, but basically I just pay extra attention to those words for awhile and I figure it out and don't have problems any more. When I am typing, though, I regularly use the wrong "write" or "right." For some reason my brain is wired to tell my hands to type the wrong one. Obviously I know how to spell them and when yo use the RIGHT one, it just doesn't always happen.
I always think "their" misspelled (and I think misspelled misspelled - two s's or one????) on this board is just a typo
Listen & quiet I have to stop and think before I spell. I can spell big science words but the small words trip me up.
I KNOW I spelled parentheses (spelled correctly thanks to the wiggly red line) wrong on the white board when I was going over properties of addition with my third graders. Thank goodness they had no clue either. My issue isn't really spelling, but more on the pronunciation. I have such a weird accent, I have a hard time saying certain words. My husband laughs at me all the time because I'll get stuck on a word and won't move on until I say it right.
I have to do more than pause to spell this word right Many times I misspell (there's that word again) the word so bad that spell check can't even offer a solution
Lose and loose. Those two trip me up each and every time I have to use one of them. I usually try to use words other than those to avoid using the incorrect word. Other than those two words, I'm a good speller.
I have a few that get me but for some reason when I type they I leave off the y each time. Its weird. Maybe its my typing speed and I use the so often its just programed to happen.
This is such a fun post I have trouble with tomorrow, convienent, committment, and a few others that I can't think of right off the top of my head. Mldouglas
Wow! It seems like we have some spelling issues. I believe spelling is a requirement for being a fluent reader and writer. My 4th graders practice their spelling daily using the website, Spelling City. They love the free games! I love the free resources and printables!
Opposite, surprise and an issue that isn't spelling related, using is and are. It's not that I don't know how to spell the words or properly use is and are, it's that I have to think about it for at least a split second. For me it comes down to how I think about the word when I'm composing on the fly: I think "opp-i-site" and I think "su-prise," and as such when I'm writing fast that's how they come out -- there are many other words like them that I fumble on when writing off the top of my head without focusing. As for is and are, again it comes down to speed. A lot of times I don't connect the singular and plural, it's something I have to think about. For example, typing fast I would write "there is two options," as opposed to "there are two options." As long as I slow down and think about it, the issues seem to dissolve. It's when I don't focus that they plague me.
For the record, loose patterns exactly like caboose, goose, moose, and noose (not to mention burnoose, papoose, and the colloquial vamoose 'get going'; the latter comes from the Spanish vamos 'let's go', in case anyone wonders). The phrase "loose as a goose" might make a good mnemonic. The odd one out here is lose. Perhaps it helps to point out that lose has exactly the same number of O's as its past tense lost.
Then the past tense would more or less have to be loozed, though, and that's not likely to happen. A friend of mine used to say that the past tense of sneak ought to be snought, on analogy with wreak/wrought. He intended this as a joke, mostly.
I'm an excellent speller (and I learned to read with Dick and Jane, too!) but I have to think about significant, and I usually have to look up the correct past tense for lie/lay. I keep a copy of Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words on my desk--mostly in the vain hope that my students will use it...
Attendence/attendance....I can never remember Superintendent/superintendant... hmmm seems like I can't hear the difference between ent or ence and ant/ance.....
Not so much with words but with states... MA and PA. Note, I abbreviated here because I didn't feel like looking them up and I would most likely spell them wrong if I didn't.
