Hi everyone
I don't want to seem snobbish, but I'd like to draw your attention to the "Spell Check" function that Rich has put at the bottom of the "new post" boxes.
I know a lot of you probably just have a few minutes to type and run, but I've seen so many interesting spelling versions of the word "DEFINITELY" that I thought I'd point out that in spite of it's pronunciation, there is no "a" in it.
I use the spell check on a lot of my posts and it really works... it catches a lot of typos, too.

I hope this doesn't offend anyone. English spelling is one of the biggest illogical nightmares and makes the spell-check one of my favorite functions on a computer. (In spite of being an English teacher, living in Switzerland and speaking German has really messed with my ability to spell, so I try to have a dictionary or a spell-check around.)

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Andrea

Hello,

I love that spell check. lol I use it "sometimes" but I too forget a lot. Thanks for reminding me. lol

I was just having a really stressed-out morning and had to vent about something... no offence intended, people!
The spell check is a really good way to keep myself trained for those tricky words. I hate when I have a spelling black-out when writing something on the board in front of my students!!!!!
(PS -- After I wrote it, "offence" looked funny to me, and although the spell check said it was OK, I looked it up in the dictionary too. The Americans spell it "offense". Learn something new every day!!

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Andrea

Andrea, how could we ever be mad at you..If we were, you would probably cut us off from pics, then we would have withdrawls, lol. But, totally understandable about the spell check.

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MARSHA

:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

Yeah...they put 's' instead of 'c', 'z' instead of 's'......you know you let them use your language and what do they do?.....destroy it lol

I should really start using the spell check, being dyslexic I tend to make stupid little smelling pistakes lol

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LMAO, Joe!! (Man, I can't stop laughing!!!!!!)
However, I have some REAL issues with the language we Americans "borrowed/inherited" from ya'll over there... Try teaching and explaining "Do you have breakfast every day?" and "Have you got a car?" My poor students get so mixed up, I hear statements all the time like: "Have you breakfast every day?" and "Do you have got a car?" WWaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHH!!!!
Why'd you guys have to invent that weird grammar structure around the word "have"? Just to make English teachers' lives miserable?!

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Andrea

I don't know what you mean???

Yes the grammar isn't the easiest....I don't get it all and English is the only language I know....apart from the embaressingly little french and german I know....

My dad used to teach English as a second language to international students, and he found that people can not get the hang of 'to getup' as in 'I getup in the morning'.......get-to aquire something, up-up....it is so confusing when you start looking at it lol

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Try finding a simple answer to this: "What does 'get' mean?
My Oxford dictionary lists at least 75 definitions.... I stopped counting after that.... So, aside from having 800,000 words in the language, English also manages to have over 75 definitions for one word! It's really tough.

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Andrea

Its called elitism lol.....we don't want any old riff raff speaking the Queens English now do we?

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I'll think of something to put here soon.......

Oops! That would be me. I spelled definitely wrong in my post to Lola about the albino garter. Sorry folks...I still think it looks funny with an "i" though

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Val
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