Dear fellow author I am currently reading -- it is fazed, not phased. It is retched, not wretched. If you know you can't spell, get someone who can to check your work. #spelling #proofreading
#SPELLING
Queers, I need your help! 🏳️🌈🪩💅✨🏳️⚧️
Suppose I am someone who vogues. Suppose I need to use the verb tense that goes between "I vogued" and "I will vogue". I need to say, "I am ______". Which spelling do you prefer?
(Boosts welcome)
#queer #spelling #poll #LGBTQ #vogue #BeFabulous #WorkItGirl #YouBetterWork #sashay #chantay
I made myself a tiny cheatsheet for learning Shavian, in Inkscape.
It's loosely based on one I found in the Shavian subreddit, except (probably) much worse than that one. I just really wanted something in a smaller size, for easily carrying around. These are designed for 2in×3.5in double-sided business cards. I have .SVGs too but I dunno where to post those.
@shavian@lemmy.world #Shavian #English #language #spelling #englishspellingreform
It's loosely based on one I found in the Shavian subreddit, except (probably) much worse than that one. I just really wanted something in a smaller size, for easily carrying around. These are designed for 2in×3.5in double-sided business cards. I have .SVGs too but I dunno where to post those.
@shavian@lemmy.world #Shavian #English #language #spelling #englishspellingreform
“Frash, Momery Card” — Another ‘You Spelled It Wrong’ from The Citizen's Abdi Sultani. Read his comments here, signed off once again with his classic “Trust signwriters!” catchphrase:
And browse even more here:
I've only recently discovered that on New Year's Day, Polish language underwent the biggest spelling reform in 90 years. Why is that relevant here? Rule 8c states that in names of public places, words like avenue, square, hill, park, bridge, and so on, but not ‘street’ are now capitalised. Which potentially changes names of stops, e.g. Wilson's park → Wilson's Park
I would prefer a #spelling 🐝, but whatevs 💅
#spelling. The word I never get right first time -- aioli. Too many vowels, nothing to grab hold of
🙄🤦♀️
#AltText
snippet of a Guardian Australia newsbot item, viewed in my Friendica web client, in which "separate" has been misspelled as "seperate".
i hear the four horsepeeps of the apocalypse thundering ever closer.
Americans, when did you first become aware that "judgement" is spelt "judgment"?
Americans, when did you first become aware that "judgement"... #spelling #english #dictionaries #ask
@jeysal
*looks at Wiktionary*
*looks at the spelling*
*looks at the spelling again*
I think usually without an »e« after the »n« in derived terms.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guillotinable
#spelling #English #loanword
Serious congestion on the Highway to Hell.
Apparently, children’s spelling has reached a level where Satan now receives most of Santa’s mail.
Hype for the Future 49D: The Galician Language
In Galicia, the regional language is effectively as if a mix of Spanish and Portuguese. However, the overall syntax of the nation is significantly more akin to Portuguese than Spanish, though the orthography of the Galician language has often been criticized within Galicia for being excessively Castilianized. The regional movement of Reintegrationism in the Galician context attempts to dispel the Castilian concerns regarding linguistic syntax by promoting the idea that Galician and the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/hype-for-the-future-49d-the-galician-language/
Words¹ misspelled² so often, even in edited text, that my copy-editor's heart does a little happy dance when I see them spelled appropriately:
ad nauseam, complement, its, just deserts, led, minuscule, principle, supersede
¹ In a broad sense, to include phrases.
² The descriptivist in me protests the implicit judgement, but "spelled in a nonstandardized way" is on the wordy side for a throwaway Mastodon post.
#language #spelling #words #EnglishUsage #editing #copyediting #proofreading
Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o
#HackerNews #Carney #called #out #for #British #spelling #Canada #Carney #BritishSpelling #LanguageDebate #SpellingControversy #News
🇨🇦 🇬🇧 **Linguistic experts urge Carney government to stop using British spellings**
"_Advocates say government should utilize (not 'utilise') Canadian English in official documents_"
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/carney-criticized-for-british-spelling-9.7015702.
#Linguistics #English #Language #Spelling #Canada #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom
Friendly reminder about whether to use a full stop after an abbreviation in non-US English: if the abbreviation ends in the same letter as the unabbreviated word (like "Mr" for "Mister" or "Mrs" for "Missers/Missus"), you do not add a full stop after the abbreviation.
If the abbreviation ends in a *different* letter than the unabbreviated word (like "Prof." for "Professor" or "Rev." for "Reverend"), you DO add a full stop after the abbreviation.
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