Archives for the 'Spelling' Category
- 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!
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