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- Galt - 04-23-2004
definitely
Here's a quote from sleeper:
Quote:definetlyWhich immediately followed a quote from DIG
Quote:definitlyI have often spelled it "definately". But it never looks right no matter how I spell it.
Sometimes it's definately, definatley, someitmes I even get it correct - it's really a crapshoot, but "definately" is really the way that I normallly mess it up. I always have to go to dictionary.com to see how to spell it. I hate that.
I'm going to make a conscious effort to spell this right from now on.
Kind of like how I can't every say the word "statistics". It's impossible. I always sound like I have roll of quarters in my mouth.
- Arpikarhu - 04-23-2004
just write "define" and add a tly . thats how i remembered.
i always misspell thier, or is it their?
- lush - 04-23-2004
Their.
I can't type because, it's usually becasue.
- HedCold - 04-23-2004
their
- Goatweed - 04-23-2004
<a href="http://www.iespell.com", target="_blank">this will definitely help with spelling errors<a/>
- Gooch - 04-23-2004
i fuck up: alot
which is supposed to be: a lot
- The Sleeper - 04-23-2004
Quote:just write "define" and add a tly . thats how i remembered.but that's not how you spell it
- Splatterpunk - 04-23-2004
There/their/theyre. I see the faggoty "i" before "e" except after "c" thing does not work for "their"; another fond legend is destroyed.
- HedCold - 04-23-2004
i before e except after c isn't the whole rhyme. there's more to it, most people just don't know it
- Keyser Soze - 04-23-2004
Quote:i fuck up: alot
which is supposed to be: a lot
my girlfriend viciously corrects me on this all the time
- HedCold - 04-23-2004
Quote:Addendum:
According to The Complete Word Book by Mary A. DeVries, this is the entire "i before e" spelling rule:
Use i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor or weigh; and except seize and seizure and also leisure, weird, height, and either, forfeit, and neither.
As you can see, this covers most of the cases.
- diceisgod - 04-23-2004
Why isn't it "neitheir" or "eitheir" instead of "neither" or "either"?
- Splatterpunk - 04-23-2004
HedCold Wrote:You ARE a hipstah.Quote:Addendum:
According to The Complete Word Book by Mary A. DeVries, this is the entire "i before e" spelling rule:
Use i before e except after c or when sounded like a as in neighbor or weigh; and except seize and seizure and also leisure, weird, height, and either, forfeit, and neither.
As you can see, this covers most of the cases.
- crx girl - 04-24-2004
Arpikarhu Wrote:just write "define" and add a tly . thats how i remembered.either you're completely wrong or i'm completely fucked up but i always remember that it's related to finite. my problems arise with disappointed and cincinnatti
i always misspell thier, or is it their?
- Galt - 04-24-2004
per usual, Arpi is wrong and someone else is correct.
In this case, it's Sleeper and CRX
- crx girl - 04-24-2004
you shoulda seen how many times it took me to spell out finitinite
- Sweet Angel - 04-24-2004
Quote:Kind of like how I can't every say the word "statistics". It's impossible. I always sound like I have roll of quarters in my mouth.I can't say that either.
As far as what I can't type, I always type "marital" as "martial" and "amboy" as "amoby". And "omission" gives me spelling problems.