Speeling tosts

[Guest]

Edited to say: I'm a dozey mare! Read on, if you wanna see me making a tit of myself...

My 8 year old daughter came home from school with her list of words she has to learn over the weekend, for her weekly spelling test on Monday.

Words like multiply and calculation are handwritten on this piece of paper, and I was going through them with her, but then I got to complement. Sheesh.

I explained to her that even teachers make mistakes, lol, and crossed out the error and wrote it down correctly for her.

It's amusing, in a way, but shocking in another. There's often mistakes in letters they bring home from school, and now and again I've pointed them out to them (they must hate there sometimes, haha), but to have a spelling error on the kids' spellings they have to learn: LOL!

She's so lovely her teacher, I'm gonna feel bad pointing it out to her.

Lou

 

[Guest]

 

[English Lady]

Had t been typed,we could have blamed a typo -but written down, probablr just means she was distracted

 

[carsonshepherd]

complement is a separate word from compliment.

ETA -what jammies said

 

[Guest]

Not so fast, darlin'

Oh.

I was being a complete ditz earlier this morning, I thought it had worn off.

Oh feck, I dunno, I'm a silly Mummy.

Embarrassed now...

 

[Recidiva]

Something similar happened with my daughter's class. Her teacher couldn't spell. Really, genuinely, couldn't spell

I was to "incorauge" my child to spell...(only one mistake from the introductory letter from the teachers to parents)

It was awful. She put stuff up on the board and they copied down her mistakes and the ones they made, and came home with spellings like:

"Pandemoneminium"

I finally had to have a conference, volunteer to print out sheets myself, and correct everything before she'd check her spelling and print out something the kids could study without copying from a friend.

Awful.

 

[English Lady]

oooooh, you learn soemthing new very day

 

[Guest]

 

[carsonshepherd]

And I can be a brusque and pedantic twit. Didn't mean to embarrass you. *hugs*

you're just a curmudgeonette.

 

[AppleBiter]

Something similar happened with my daughter's class. Her teacher couldn't spell. Really, genuinely, couldn't spell

I was to "incorauge" my child to spell...(only one mistake from the introductory letter from the teachers to parents)

It was awful. She put stuff up on the board and they copied down her mistakes and the ones they made, and came home with spellings like:

"Pandemoneminium"

I finally had to have a conference, volunteer to print out sheets myself, and correct everything before she'd check her spelling and print out something the kids could study without copying from a friend.

Awful.

That is terrible!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Good moaning. The resist-once have accqo-aired a bum. They are going to ex-plod the whaleway brodge.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Something similar happened with my daughter's class. Her teacher couldn't spell. Really, genuinely, couldn't spell

I was to "incorauge" my child to spell...(only one mistake from the introductory letter from the teachers to parents)

It was awful. She put stuff up on the board and they copied down her mistakes and the ones they made, and came home with spellings like:

"Pandemoneminium"

I finally had to have a conference, volunteer to print out sheets myself, and correct everything before she'd check her spelling and print out something the kids could study without copying from a friend.

Awful.

Another reason I homeschool...

'course I say that, but we haven't gotten to algebra yet...

 

[Guest]

oooooh, you learn soemthing new very day

Hehe, glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought it should be compliment. It's cos we're English, yes, that's what it is.

 

[Guest]

And I can be a brusque and pedantic twit. Didn't mean to embarrass you. *hugs*

LOL, no worries, at all! I'm used to making an arse of myself, cos I misheard/misread/misunderstood something - a classic happened last week, and I really freaked myself out, but it's too rude to describe, even on here, haha!

 

[Guest]

Good moaning. The resist-once have accqo-aired a bum. They are going to ex-plod the whaleway brodge.

'Allo 'Allo!

 

[Guest]

 

[BlackShanglan]

*grin* And now you get the fun of explaining how mommies make mistakes too ...

I had an instructor once put up on an overhead the word "formication," which is a real word meaning the feeling of ants crawling on the skin, or "pins and needles" as we more commonly call it in our home. A student raised her hand and pointed out that a word was spelled wrong on the overhead. The instructor began to explain that no, no, it really was forMication; the student pointed out that the overhead read, "the sensation of aunts crawling over one's skin."

Depending on the aunt, that could be rather good fun.

Shanglan

 

[Guest]

Teachers are not immune to the dangers of the typo. My boss's wife is a teacher (actually, now she is a student dean) and because I'm his secretary and it's a family owned business, somehow she regularly sends me things to be typed up for her, usually for use by students/parents.

The spelling and grammar are often shockingly bad. Of course, it makes her rather peevish when I correct what she's written, but she'd never made me reverse a correction. And I've learned the hard way that many people will take umbrage if one dares to correct even obvious grammatical errors they've made.

I'm no champion speller, but I have no fear of dictionaries, either. I have a whole raft of links to various online dictionarys I use regularly, plus a nice collection of printed dictionaries. I have many books on grammar because mine is hardly above question and I always feel more comfortable breaking a rule I know exists rather than just blundering around.

But I try to check a resource before making a correction -- there's an unwritten universal rule that if you attempt to correct someone else, you'll make an error in your correction just so you don't get all cocky!

 

[matriarch]

Not so fast, darlin'

You got in before me.

Don't worry Lou, its a common error. Just 'cos we're English, doesn't mean we can know, be aware of, use every word in the English language.

Just do a flip through your dictionary any time, just stopping randomly on any page, go down the lists, and see how many words you've never, never, ever heard of. It's fascinating, and a great game. I used to make a game of it, 'word of the day' at a couple of places I worked.

I'd put the strange word up on my office window for the day, and everyone tried to work out what it meant, purely from its construction, and no looking it up. Some of the answers were very inventive. A bit like Call My Bluff. It was great fun.

 

[oggbashan]

I have the full Oxford English Dictionary in photographically reduced format.

I have to put my glasses on, and then use a magnifying glass to consult it.

I miss Perdita. She had the full thing on cd-roms and could copy and paste the definitions. I have to type them out while trying to keep the magnifying glass balanced...

Og

 

[KinseyClone]

And I can be a brusque and pedantic twit. Didn't mean to embarrass you. *hugs*

On behalf of those who have dedicated our lives to being brusque and pedantic twits, I hereby lodge an official "harumph!"--if only because this is my only opportunity in months to use the sadly-neglected word.

 

[oggbashan]

... The instructor began to explain that no, no, it really was forMication; the student pointed out that the overhead read, "the sensation of aunts crawling over one's skin."

Depending on the aunt, that could be rather good fun.

Shanglan

If the aunt was MathGirl's - see my post on the memorable AVs thread - I think it would be more enjoyable than just 'fun'.

Og

 

[matriarch]

Good moaning. The resist-once have accqo-aired a bum. They are going to ex-plod the whaleway brodge.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

That programme was so bad, it was brilliant.
I think everyone's favourite was the English/French gendarme. Hilarious.

And yet........every single one of us knew what he was trying to say. How amazing is that??

 

[Kain__Thornn]

I once tanked a spelling bee because I didn't spell "antidisestablishmentarianism" correctly. The rest of the kids in that kindergarten class were angry, too.

 

[hotchkiss]

Getting the cane for getting less than fifteen out of twenty spellings right in junior school certainly helped me to spell. It's just a shame they didn't concentrate on the rest of my edufuckation!