My favorite came from “wmsiii”, who proposed “Soccrer Insidrer,” which I thought was a pretty clever play on the weird spelling/pronunciation of my last name, but The Post’s editors justifiably felt that it would look like a typo every time it was published. ...
there are a lot of exceptions to the rule that placesibeforee, except afterc, and these are often misspelled as a result. Some examples are the words ''either,'' ''neither,'' ''science,'' ''conscience,'' ''their,'' ''weird,'' ''height,'' ''species,'' ''foreign,'' ''leisu...
Some of the more common spelling mistakes and typos that I've found while fixing up spelling mistakes in the kernel over the past couple of releases. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230427102835.83482-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com> ...
// These are the names of files or directories that should be excluded from // the searching process. This probably should include generated files with // weird comments that produce a lot of false positives.const ignored_files = [_
This webliography was adapted from the one that appears in Weird and Wonderful Words, edited by Erin McKean (with illustrations by Roz Chast), Oxford, 2002.] VERBATIM VOL. XXVII, NO. 4 Page 27 An Appeal to Writers Everywhere Tony Ladds Brecon, Wales I am sure we are all very concerned ...
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“I” before “E” except after “C”: This rule works for words like ‘believe’ and ‘receive’. However, there are exceptions like ‘weird’ and ‘neither’. Double Consonants: Words like ‘sit’ become ‘sitting’ when adding a suffix. However, ‘visit’ becomes ‘visiting’ and not...
"Most traditionalspelling rulesare based on thewritten languageonly. Consider these two examples: 'to form thepluralofnounsending in y, changeytoiand addes' (cry–cries), and 'igoes beforeeexcept afterc' (quite a useful reminder, though there are a few exceptions--weird, neighbour, etc.)...
It seemed like it worked, not doing too much. There were a lot of questions, including from the graduate students.* I answered them off the top of my head, relying on what was in the paper and my own knowledge of related topics. I am weirdly proud that I did not do a perfect job...
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