 aculton says: Thank God for spell check. There are lots more, just picked a few to share with you. I'm dyslexic. Never heard of it until at least 10 years past education. Half my time in exams was spent on this problem. These are not the words that I have most difficulty with. I remember forty that I could not figure out why it was not 'fourty'. And heart - I believed there should be another h in there. Worse was having to plan sentences in advance for my pitfalls. Even with my disability, I would regard it as bad manners and disrespectful to the readers not to use a spellchecker. There are slight differences in words as they are written in traditional English, and US English, Examples are words such as color,favor,honor, as they are spelled in the US, are spelled with a u in Australia and England i.e. colour favour honour. There are other types. I can have a spellcheck warn me, I could use either spelling, depending on the one I like at the time. I use the ask search, when I'm in any doubt, some rules stick in your head. At the moment I'm stuck with i before e except after c. I need to listen to some music. One thing I did while writing this was write spelt, got a red line,changed it to spellled, and it took me 5 minutes to find the third l. One thing has occurred ... Righthand - my son was dyslectic also and always had trouble with spelling and numbers. There's no "math check" available. I have a problem with words ending in "ible" or "able". I just used spellcheck to be sure I spelled " available" correctly. (I did) Examples are words such as color,favor,honor, as they are spelled inAnd in South Africa. I use the traditional spelling as it seems almost sacreligious to use 'Americanese'. I once heard that "maestro" was the most misspelled word, but it didn't appear in the list. I have to look up the word bureaucrat (I had to look it up this time, too.) And I was a bureaucrat for 27 years. Well, I was actually lower than a bureaucrat, so you can just imagine . . . well, we can all spell "sewer rat." I go dyslexic sometimes, Sometimes I catch it and sometimes I don't. To add to this list Your Them They because they often come out as you, the & the KKcap - 'able' to do something should help with that Spell Checker is great, but it doesn't catch homonyms. I don't know why grammar checker doesn't either. My father always uses spell checker, but he never catches the homonyms, like "their" and "there". Personally, I am lucky. I can spell pretty well, yet I do have trouble with the word "achieve". If I don't focus on it, I sometimes want to switch the ie to ei...I guess my mind doesn't want to register the h after the c. |
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