Archives for the 'Spelling' Category

• A Quiz on Treatment of 75 Compound Words
• 12 Evocative Words That Include “Ae”
• 7 Negative Prefixes
• 15 Foreign Words and Phrases People Spell Incorrectly
• 20 Clipped Forms and Their Place (If Any) in Formal Writing
• 7 Subjects of Academic Terminology
• How to Treat Names of Groups and Organizations
• How Do You Pronounce “Often”?
• How Spelling Diverges Between American and British English
• Affect Is (Usually) a Verb
• When to Capitalize Animal and Plant Names
• Compound Words Don’t Always Compare
• 7 Common Homonymic Spelling Errors
• Spelling Isn’t Magic
• The Spellings of “Shun”
• English words Don’t (usually) End with “u”
• “Virtue” is spelled “Virtue”
• In the Last Throes
• How to spell “in lieu of”
• Where to Put the Stress in “irrevocable”?
• Pronouncing Words That End in -lm
• Take Care with “Album”
• One Sheep, Two Sheep, One Fish, Two Fish . . .
• A Lesson in Spelling “Definite”
• Peers and Piers
• The Present Participle of Verbs Ending in -ie
• Please Let Your Interest Be “Piqued”
• Dandelions and Medallions
• “Icicle,” Another Good Word Down the Tubes
• 38 Letters of the Alphabet
• When to use “an”
• No Hyphen in “Ramshackled”
• “Urk” is not a standard spelling
• The Past of “Pay” is “Paid”
• Do We Really Need “Verbiage” and “Verbage”?
• Running Amok or Running Amuck?
• The Negative Prefix il-
• Verbs in -ize and -ise
• Words Often Misspelled Because of Double Letters
• CamelCase
• Strolling Down the [AV]
• Ebook, eBook, ebook or e-book?
• When Shortening “Synchronize,” Best Leave Off the “h”
• Ah, Those -ah words in English!
• Nothing to do with Raspberries, Exactly
• How Do You Pronounce “Mozart”?
• A Night in the MVSEVM
• The Four Sounds of the Spelling OU
• Could it Be, Just Possibly, All a Ruse?
• Judgement or Judgment?
• Worshiping and Kidnapping
• One “L” or Two?
• Words Ending in -gue
• Cannot or Can Not?
• Practice or Practise?
• Chocolate Covered or Chocolate-Covered?
• Pronouncing Words that Begin with WH
• When -OT is [ət]
• Pass the Chile
• The Plural of “Calf” is “Calves,” or is it?
• 50 Incorrect Pronunciations That You Should Avoid
• English Words Spelled with 3-letter /ī/
• To “B” or Not to “B”
• Is “Religulous” A Word?
• Program vs. Programme
• The Silent K
• Alas, Poor Heroine
• Site, Sight, and the Spell Check Syndrome
• Poll: Should We Write email or e-mail?
• Celtic: /sel tik/ or /kel tik/?
• Tentative and Tenterhooks
• The Eight Spellings of Long O
• Are You Able?
• January 1 Doesn’t Need an “st”
• Breach, Breech
• Spelling Reform and the Writer
• Case of the Missing “i”s: foliage, verbiage, miniature
• The Six Spellings of “Long E”
• In Quest of a Standard American Pronunciation
• Learn to Spell by Phonograms, not Letters
• Seen in the Classifieds
• Caesar Sat on the Dais
• How Do I Become a Better Speller?
• Words with the Suffixes “-ance” and “-ence”
• Stationery, Cemetery, and Shepherd
• Five Spelling Rules for “Silent Final E”
• Misspelled Numbers, Months, and Days
• The Truth About “It’s”
• English Spelling is Not Total Chaos
• The Blogger Spelling Test
• Careful with Words Used as Noun and Verb
• Is “alright” all right?
• Advertising May Be Harmful to Your Spelling
• Sending an E-mail Without Proofreading is Like Shooting a Gun Without Aiming
• Spell Check Isn’t Foolproof!

-

Categories

• Book Reviews
• Business Writing
• Competitions
• Expressions
• Fiction Writing
• Freelance Writing
• General
• Grammar
• Grammar 101
• Misused Words
• Punctuation
• Spelling
• Style
• Vocabulary
• Word of the Day
• Writing Basics