Remember the hours spent at school with spelling, chanting word like religious mantras.
Hours and hours !
H O U S E, house, M O U S E, mouse, T H O R O U G H thorough, T H R O U G H through, T H O U G H T thought, T O U G H tough
I remember regular "dictation" that was handed in and marked. I always got great marks!
Recently we stayed with the grandbabies - no longer babies though, and the youngest had her list of spelling words to work on as homework. Still boring!
Santa said
06:13 PM Mar 17, 2013
Rip and Rosie wrote:
I remember regular "dictation" that was handed in and marked. I always got great marks!
And it shows.
GarrynLyn said
01:16 PM Mar 18, 2013
There was no spell check in '69 when I joind the RAAF, Lyn and I were not yet married, so love letters went back and forth. When Lyn was writing her letters and couldn't spell a word, she would leave a space, intending to go back and insert the word after checking the dictionary.
Problem was though that she would forget, and I would get all these letters full of spaces, so I just had to guess what words she intended to put in them.
Beth54 said
07:14 PM Mar 18, 2013
GarrynLyn wrote:
There was no spell check in '69 when I joind the RAAF, Lyn and I were not yet married, so love letters went back and forth. When Lyn was writing her letters and couldn't spell a word, she would leave a space, intending to go back and insert the word after checking the dictionary.
Problem was though that she would forget, and I would get all these letters full of spaces, so I just had to guess what words she intended to put in them.
Oh that's funny.
Rip and Rosie said
04:29 PM Mar 19, 2013
GarrynLyn wrote:
There was no spell check in '69 when I joind the RAAF, Lyn and I were not yet married, so love letters went back and forth. When Lyn was writing her letters and couldn't spell a word, she would leave a space, intending to go back and insert the word after checking the dictionary.
Problem was though that she would forget, and I would get all these letters full of spaces, so I just had to guess what words she intended to put in them.
I bet she got a shock to finally realise what she had put/not put in those letters..... And perhaps you got an awakening to realise those hot letters were not intended to be so hot !
so funny.
-- Edited by Rip and Rosie on Tuesday 19th of March 2013 04:30:29 PM
03_troopy said
01:53 AM Mar 22, 2013
Not so much about spelling, but when I was in the RAAF and was deployed away somewhere, I'd get letters from my wife and her handwriting was so bad I'd have to ring her up to find out what they were about.
_wombat_ said
03:16 AM Mar 22, 2013
03_troopy wrote:
Not so much about spelling, but when I was in the RAAF and was deployed away somewhere, I'd get letters from my wife and her handwriting was so bad I'd have to ring her up to find out what they were about.
Hours and hours !
H O U S E, house, M O U S E, mouse, T H O R O U G H thorough, T H R O U G H through, T H O U G H T thought, T O U G H tough
I remember regular "dictation" that was handed in and marked. I always got great marks!
Recently we stayed with the grandbabies - no longer babies though, and the youngest had her list of spelling words to work on as homework. Still boring!
And it shows.
There was no spell check in '69 when I joind the RAAF, Lyn and I were not yet married, so love letters went back and forth. When Lyn was writing her letters and couldn't spell a word, she would leave a space, intending to go back and insert the word after checking the dictionary.
Problem was though that she would forget, and I would get all these letters full of spaces, so I just had to guess what words she intended to put in them.
I bet she got a shock to finally realise what she had put/not put in those letters..... And perhaps you got an awakening to realise those hot letters were not intended to be so hot !
so funny.
-- Edited by Rip and Rosie on Tuesday 19th of March 2013 04:30:29 PM