I Lost at the Spelling Be

[Isualum13]

 

[coolerifyoudid]

There's a lot of nerds on here

If this thread helps even one person figure out the difference between 'loose' and 'lose', it will be the best thread I've ever started.

 

[Clark]

Am I really the only person on here who is pedantic enough to point out that in a thread about spelling bee's, the thread title misspelled spelling bee?

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Am I really the only person on here who is pedantic enough to point out that in a thread about spelling bee's, the thread title misspelled spelling bee?

 

[Clark]

oh so I am the only person?

 

[MeanDean]

If this thread helps even one person figure out the difference between 'loose' and 'lose', it will be the best thread I've ever started.

You two? Their you go!

 

[usedcarguy]

You two? Their you go!

Were certainly an observant group! haha

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

There are occasions in which I cannot spell a word close enough for spell check to offer the correct word.

To be fair English is a silly language with no idea what it is doing.

 

[MNCYWX]

I was the one reading words one time for a local elementary spelling bee. Evidently I didn't pronounce one word perfectly and the kid missed it. The parent was irate afterwards and let me hear it. Never done one since.

 

[ClonesFTW]

Funny thread but I’ll never forget my big miss… Calendar.

 

[Cysmik]

5th grade, State. First word melancholy. Had never heard of the word, and since then I refuse to acknowledge it as a word and don't want to know what it means. Slightly bitter.

 

[Farnsworth]

I'm not sure we ever had a spelling bee outside of just in the classroom of like 15 kids.

I struggle with a new thing now when it comes to spelling (and typing in general) My mind thinks a lot faster than I type so I get ahead of myself focusing more on thought that typing, so I end up skipping entire words or spelling things oddly or phonetically and don't even notice.

Somehow today, my 5th day at my new Dandy jod, I somehow sent my boss my weekly review spelling internal as eternal. (even after I typed this I proofed it and had written 'as' as 'at').

 

[Farnsworth]

......

And I now live in Kansas City where I eat barbecue and proceed to wonder what might have been.

I feel like this could be a good beginning of a story where you go into a daydream of a crazy success life, and at the end you awake at your childhood again all defeated, teacher giving disappointed looks, etc.

 

[Farnsworth]

5th grade, State. First word melancholy. Had never heard of the word, and since then I refuse to acknowledge it as a word and don't want to know what it means. Slightly bitter.

Oddly it means

Spoiler

slightly bitter

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[ImJustKCClone]

Spell check works, but only helps people if they actually figure out how to correct or change the word. It seems that a lot don't.

AND if the misspelled word isn't actually a word, write?

 

[MeanDean]

AND if the misspelled word isn't actually a word, write?

Corps Wrecked

 

[NWICY]

AND if the misspelled word isn't actually a word, write?

In a previous time I worked in a factory on the line, had a gal on our shift that was a nice person but damn she couldn't spell to save her life, always wanted to be the secretary on committees etc... I can't remember how many times the word pier was subbed in for peer. SOB proofread that stuff before you send it out in final form. Her answer was don't worry spell check corrects it. No, no it does not, learn the hell to proofread and keep a dictionary handy.