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”. 😂
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.
Not something I have trouble with spelling, but a common typo I noticed I make is spelling “check” with a ‘h’ instead of the ‘k’ for some reason.
I’ve found myself working on a tricky civil engineering project in Scotland, and Every Single Time I write ”peat” I type it P-E-A-T-H-backspace.