Hi, my name is Maggie and I'm a bad speller. It's true, I am helplessly strung out on spell check. I absolutely LOVE that facebook and blogger automatically check my spelling for me. And while many of my spelling errors are due to laziness and sloppy typing, there are a couple of words in particular that I really struggle with.
1) Tomorrow - I think that I unlearned how to spell this word when I learned Finnish. Finnish unlike English is phonetic and like other phonetic languages uses specific vowels for specific sounds. English does not. The word tomorrow is particularly troubling because while it feature 3 distinct vowel sounds, it's redundant use of the letter "o" is utterly bewildering. I have since relearned how to spell this wretched word but every once in a while I try to stick in an in the middle. How 'bout we all just spell it "tumaaro"? Hmm, that doesn't look right either.
2) Definitely - Another puzzler, it is my inability to spell this word correctly that has lead me to believe that I use it way to much.
1) Tomorrow - I think that I unlearned how to spell this word when I learned Finnish. Finnish unlike English is phonetic and like other phonetic languages uses specific vowels for specific sounds. English does not. The word tomorrow is particularly troubling because while it feature 3 distinct vowel sounds, it's redundant use of the letter "o" is utterly bewildering. I have since relearned how to spell this wretched word but every once in a while I try to stick in an in the middle. How 'bout we all just spell it "tumaaro"? Hmm, that doesn't look right either.
2) Definitely - Another puzzler, it is my inability to spell this word correctly that has lead me to believe that I use it way to much.
3) Alaska - I really don't know why this is so hard. For some reason it's just hard to type or something. I know it's nothing compared to Massachusetts or Connecticut. Even after living in Massachusetts for a summer, I still struggle with that one.
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