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    Is your spelling bad?

    Send to a grammar Nazi near you:




    There's a few more there:
    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

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    Re: Is your spelling bad?

    That's well made. They should of done a few more.



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    Re: Is your spelling bad?

    damn i want to miss spell just so a dolphin gets run over by a jet ski

    wierd
    wierd
    wierd
    wierd
    wierd
    wierd
    wierd
    wierd
    wierd
    wierd
    wierd
    wierd

    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    now that i think about the word "throttled" in a certain light... its not so far different to strangled really

    our boiler broke so we has no heating or hot water, this is the bloody result ^^

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    Re: Is your spelling bad?

    Thats why a spell checker is good but not perfect

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    Re: Is your spelling bad?

    My girlfriend does the they're/their/there thing ALL the time, but I turn a blind eye lol.

    She does say 'brought' all the time though, instead of bought, where in which case I interrupt

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    Re: Is your spelling bad?

    Quote Originally Posted by Greenlizard0 View Post
    That's well made. They should of done a few more.


    No comment ;-)

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    Re: Is your spelling bad?

    This is going to my other half, with a suggestion that her students be apprised of it....

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    Re: Is your spelling bad?

    Quote Originally Posted by nichomach View Post
    This is going to my other half, with a suggestion that her students be apprised of it....
    Apart from the fact that it's American and as such neigbour and haemorrhoid are misspelt (warning - wikipedia page contains pictures if you were thinking of visiting it to check the spelling)
    Last edited by malfunction; 13-01-2010 at 10:32 AM.

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    Re: Is your spelling bad?

    Why didn't we have these when we were in school

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    Re: Is your spelling bad?

    Thanks for these, I've printed them out for my daughter
    I always think education is a lot better now than it used to be & the kids these days are being taught a lot more

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