h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When I was at school I had a problem with Parliament ... which I now, can spell with a 100% money back guarentee.

Any thing similar?

Guarantee, for one!

RF

Grammer for grammar

and grammer for grammar

Misspelled.

I was thinking more in the line of recieve, actually

I before E except after C.

Except that that rule doesn't always apply?

Who came up with that?

It does apply in receive.

Yes it does, but what words doesn't it apply to?

i noticed that a word beginning with a vowel usually has 'an' before it. any exceptions?


also words beginning with a consonant have 'a' before them. any exceptions for these?

Some folk have the annoyingly put an 'an' in front of words like 'hotel'.

yeah the dont say the 'h'

I don't think it's just about dropping the 'H' - BBC news readers say "an hotel". I've heard it's something to do with whether the word is Greek or Latin, or something similar, although I forget the details.

Spelling has never been my strong point. I have a strange compulsion to put an "e" on the end of "perhaps", for example. I'm also never sure how many of what goes into "access". I think actually I'm probably a little dyslexic, but don't tell anyone, since (from a certain point of view at least), I write for a living.

I've seen lots of people here, myself included, spell off and of interchangeably. First I wrote: Interchangably.

Of and off are two different words, they're not interchangeable.

Hootoo isn't the best place to look for perfect spelling!

Is anywhere, outside of a dictionary?

Descendent instead of descendant. I had to look it up. There are more words like that (can't think of them right now), and often, the German way of spelling them misleads me.

Keith, it is embarassing when you can't spell your husbands name properly

excersise .... exercise ....

When my brother was studying Sports Science I used to help him type up his research - it was one word I could never get right and I still have problems with it.

Do it? I can't even spell it!

and if you are a afrikaans guy like me you would feel like im feeling now.