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What are some words that you have or had troubles spelling and made up funny ways to help remember them? (lemmy.world)
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Growing up in Canada, I had to contend with learning two different spellings and pronunciations for words like "schedule", "colour", "omelette", "zed" vs "zee", "-ise" vs "-ize", and so on and so forth, so I had to come up with some little tricks to remember how to spell things. Sometimes I'd put on a mental Quebecois or English accent.

Other ones like diarrhea was "Die-err-HEE-uh", and now that I'm in Australia, it's most definitely "Die-err-HOE-uh". ๐Ÿ˜‚

I also recite the ABCs more often than I should. I know a lot of you do, too.

What are some ways that you thought of to help you remember how to spell things? Any language counts.

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[โ€“] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The nice thing about my native language is that it's pretty phonetically consistent with its spelling, so whenever I needed to remember the spelling of a word in english I could just remember how it would sound when said in my native language :3

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  • [โ€“] [S] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    What's your native language? English has so many rules and exceptions.

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