First things first, before you try to educate somebody, learn to
actually spell the word correctly.
The person they have making these is pretty talented until they have to
actually spell words.
When you put in your cover letter that you have attention to detail, it would be nice if
you actually spelled the words attention / detail correctly.
Not exact matches
And in fact it's interesting you mention that because that wasn't just a personal perception that I had about what a good salesperson does — it's a little bit of trivia here, but the
word «selling» is
actually derived from the
word «sillus» (no idea how to
spell, Google didn't help, sorry), which means «to serve».
In my book, Dying to Religion and Empire, I talk about how some Christians view baptism as a magical incantation in which the right
words need to be said in order for the magic
spell to
actually work.
Pablo...
Actually... the ten commandments
spelled that out before all of them, and the ten commandments came from Jesus (the
Word of God, though I know you can't understand that and probably JUST see Jesus as a man)
This month of frequent posting came only a few months after I
actually started the blog, so I still hadn't established a regular rhythm for posting (um, it just took me 4 tries to
spell the
word «rhythm»).
I've read that having your initials
spell a
word can have a positive impact on a person's life, but having your initials
actually spell your name?
I'm sure that Americans who are
actually educated (instead of just reading crap off google) are able to
actually spell out «doctor» and don't randomly capitalize stuff in the middle of sentences and
words either.
What they found was that when asked to
spell a
word like, «cat,» for example, an older child may not be able to write any letters that
actually sound like the letters in the
word, but he / she recognizes that «cat» is a shorter
word than say «elephant» and writes down their
word accordingly.
Anthony:
Actually, Koppell may be one of the only
words you've ever
spelled correctly - your site is full of errors!
Clever readers will note that if you take the first letter of each muscle name and put them all together, they will
actually spell out the
word «SITS».
I
actually don't own a minaudière (can we talk please about how hard this
word is to say and
spell?!)
It may sound snobby, but if education is important to you, then screen out the guys who don't use proper grammar, punctuation or are just too lazy to
actually spell out
words.
More importantly, the student now understands that written language is meaning based, and he or she will be able to
spell every without an over-pronunciation that distorts the
word and
actually hinders comprehension.
The true assessment for this activity will be on
spelling test day; then you will see that this fun game, in which students are keenly focused on the
words they are
spelling, can
actually help students learn to
spell those
words.
But something so simple, as putting
words together, to express how you feel, without the endless effort of draft over draft, editing,
spell and grammar checking, beta readers, relatives hating you, and gaining the sense of some
actually achievement — blogging make me feel better about myself.
In artisanal publishing, the
words, the purpose, focus, structure, core meaning, originality, literary craft and artistic style of a book is
actually a lot more significant than whether
words are
spelled correctly or a comma is out of place (although that's very important too!)
When typing with two thumbs we
actually found our cadence so fast and typing so rhythmic that we didn't feel the need to use the suggestions that appear on the keyboard all that often unless it was for bigger and harder to
spell words (for the most part our thumbs are typing faster than our brains can process the suggestions).
Another mistake may be that we called something a «Georama» which SOUNDS right because you think «Geo = earth», but the Japanese (jio-rama) is
actually just how they phonetically
spell the English
word «diorama».
The red and white blocked patterns running horizontally across the paper of Ryan Gander's md, ddkmddsdpo (commissioned by Kettle's Yard in Cambridge) resemble Aran knitting patterns, but
actually derive from the red zigzag used to highlight
spelling mistakes in Microsoft
Word.
In Belfast, Bob and Roberta Smith (
actually a single acclaimed contemporary artist called Patrick Brill) is working with dozens of community groups and local artists, each making one letter of his text, which will be brought together and lit by thousands of candles outside the city hall,
spelling out his
words: «What unites human beings is huge and wonderful.
If your child is anything like me, they'll say something like «There are
actually multiple ways to
spell it, since it's just a transliteration of the Hebrew
word חֲנֻכָּה,» and halfway through that sentence their friends will lose interest and your child will be left alone.
If you're typing a
word where the letters
actually spell out a phone number as if you were pressing it from an alphanumeric dial pad — think 1 -800-FLOWERS, or what have you — the dialer does that too.
No
word yet on whether the «3» in the codename
actually stands for something or it's just an alternate
spelling.