Good morning.

10 June 2025

Nobody nose—nobody knows! Fun with homophones or just a bit of confusion? Maybe a little of both. I'm not really going anywhere with this, just rambling. Ever find yourself typing the wrong word, like "here" instead of "hear," even though you know better? I do it all the time—especially when thinking fast. Proofreading definitely pays off, and autocorrect usually saves the day.

Funny how we've come to depend on things without even realizing it. Back in the '70s, autocorrect was just a dictionary—and maybe a little bottle of "white-out." Yes, way back when we were still dragging our knuckles on the ground.

"Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices." – David Crystal

"A pun is the lowest form of humor—unless you thought of it first." – Oscar Levan

how the heck did I just spell algorithmically correctly?

New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:

#Spelling Bee #Winner

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Faizan Zaki, 13, crowned National Spelling Bee champion | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/05/30/breaking-news/faizan-zaki-13-crowned-national-spelling-bee-champion/

> Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old boy from the Dallas area, won the 97th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, swiftly nailing the French-derived word “eclaircissement,” synonymous with enlightenment, in the 21st round of the contest finals.

I'm reading a book on business calculus. Everywhere where principal should be written, they wrote principle.

Ik kan me doodergeren aan #taalfouten in de professionele context, zeker in deze tijden waarin er ingebouwde spellingscontroles, browserextensies als #LanguageTool (https://languagetool.org/nl), online woordenlijsten (https://woordenlijst.org) en #AI tools (Copilot, Perplexity ...) bestaan.

Dan zijn er zoveel hulpmiddelen, zie je nog dingen staan als "geef uw email adres op" of "beleid voorbereidend overleg".

Geef een boost als je correcte spelling belangrijk vindt!

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Oh nooooo! I saw "Seperator" in a #Notepad menu! People, this word and its relatives are spelled as: S, E, P, A. Remember, it's like SEPA, the European money transfer system. Separator, separate, separating etc. #English #Language #Spelling

It's so exciting when I get to unwaprd a package I've been waiting for!

Proofreading: it matters!

To improve findability, alternative spellings for English terms have been added to General Finnish Ontology YSO. Previously, British English spellings were favoured [sic], but now they have been joined by American English spellings: theatre and theater, self-defense and self-defense, organisational behaviour and organizational behavior etc. Over 600 YSO concepts were provided with an additional spelling. #YSO #english #britishenglish #americanenglish #spelling #ortography

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#GIF #JPG #JPEG #GifWar #GifWars #Pronounciation #Spelling #HowToSpell #English #EnglishLanguage.

Today in BoneQuest History for May 10th 2006 "COJHGLUBBLHUGGLE" https://bonequest.com/2749 #bonequest #bonequest_hi_fi #cojhglubblhuggle #overlong #pants_spigot #park_n_suck #spelling

Went to ship a package the other day and the guy in the Post Office insisted on trying to pronounce my name. He did pretty great, considering the surprising twists I've heard. Said he takes pride in guessing people's pronounciations, told him he surprised me with his near-perfect guess.
#extra #consonants #mispronounce #pronounciation #surname #given #name #chosen #spelling #uncle #namesake #junior #third #fourth #inherit #moniker #Russian #grandparents #USA #immigrants #power the #UnitedStates

I try not to be judgmental. I really do. But peek (look) is not peak (mountain) is definitely not pique (annoyance). Reading a sentence comes to a screaming halt if the wrong word is there. #spelling

Misspellings are a total turnoff. No thanks, #Rogers, I’m busy that night. #spelling #grammar #canBiz

This concrete vibrator is protable!

#WritingTips

There are lots of tips for #writers about do this and don't do that, but one thing that is very important is to be aware of homophones.

There and Their are common ones but there are actually a lot more (depending on your accent) than you might first realise.

course/coarse, hanger/hangar, led/lead, etc.

It's so very easy to miss these, even if you know the correct spelling.

Not only that, there are also words of similar spelling that mean very different things. I posted a toot the other day about the words Torturous and Tortuous. But there are also things like Tentative and Attentive.

And stupid spellcheck won't spot any of these!

Stupid spellcheck.

Is there a Firefox add-on that could help me learn proper use of commas?

I think commas are used differently in German and English but I'm always unsure. A little add-on making suggestions would be great.

It’s quite easy to mistakenly write lead (element Pb) instead of led, because they sound the same. I see this all the time. But it never seems to happen that people write read (past tense) instead of red, yet the two situations seem similar.

I guess it has to do with the relative common-ness of led and red, and the fact that we learn red much earlier than led.