Spelling and Grammar
Common spelling and grammar "misteaks"
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A friend is always there when the
end comes.
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For those who always look at "friend" and think that it looks wrong -
emailed to me by kcomer@metronet.com.
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General Eisenhower's oldest girl rode a pony home yesterday.
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How to spell Geography! Thanks,
silmaril@kuentos.guam.net.
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George eats old gray rats and paints houses yellow.
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Also how to spell Geography. This one is from
wildcats@psci.net -
thanks!
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George Ellen's Old Grandmother Rode A Pig Home Yesterday.
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And again ... from
rlands@bellatlantic.net
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I before E except after C
And when saying "A" as in Neighbor or Weigh
And weird is weird.
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That's fairly self-explanatory. This is one I have to whisper to myself
EVERY time I spell "receive" (I whispered it again, just now, typing that
word!). Thanks to cedric@pts.mot.com for providing the last line of
the rhyme. Of course, icyblood@infowest.com points out that there are
about 200 words that don't follow this rule, as in "kaleidoscope".
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Separate is A RAT of a word to spell
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To remember to spell separate correctly, instead of "seperate". Emailed to
me by bntfkap@northstar.k12.ak.us! She also sent along:
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When two vowels go walking the first does the talking
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For words like "oat" or "eat"). And:
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The silent 'e' makes the vowel say its name
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For words like cap/cape and hat/hate.
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Once there was a young woman named Sep.
She was violently afraid of
rodents, especially rats. One day, her little brother, who was a very cruel,
unfeeling child, tapped her shoulder, and yelled "Sep, a rat!" Her response,
of course, was a loud "Eeeeeee!"
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This is a very clever story to remind a person how to spell "separate."
Thank you,
Whitney
Cohen, for this.
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A Rat In The House Might Eat The Ice Cream
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The first letter of each word spells Arithmetic!
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A rat in Tom's house may eat tom's ice cream
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Same song, different verse.
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Would you rather have one S or two? Twice as much for dessert.
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deSSert - two s's; desert - one s.
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When you eat "dessert", you always want to come back for the second
"s".
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Another desert/dessert mnemonic, from
callisto@dorsai.org
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sweet stuff
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Dessert has double esses (thanks to
Darlene.K.Carlson.2@nd.edu)
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Strawberry Shortcake
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Dessert has two s's in it ... like Strawberry Shortcake. Thanks to
MARAGONA@prodigy.net !
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A Dessert is Super Sloppy; A Desert is Sandy
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Yet more ways to remember "dessert" vs. "desert" ... from
SD2404@aol.com . Thanks!
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The word "believe" has "lie" in it
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Also contributed by
callisto@dorsai.org , who appears to love
mnemonics as much as I do!
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Your principal is your PAL
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The difference between Principle and PrinciPAL... thanks,
edlindabowes@itl2.itlnet.net ,
for sending me this!
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The sailor's favorite boat was named "PAN CAP IV"
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Parts of Speech: Pronoun, Adverb, Noun, Conjunction, Adjective,
Preposition, Interjection, Verb
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RAVEN
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R emember
A ffect
V erb
E ffect
N oun
To remember when to use "affect" vs "effect" ...
pkokkoros@sprint.ca
uses this in her ESL classroom.
