Forum / Form - usage

**sirrahbed** · 07-07-2007, 01:37 PM

I have tended to be a member of the "Spelling Police" for most of my early years (college major was English the first time around

)...but now I make so many of my own goofs that I don't have much room to point out the goofs I see. If I stop and think - I know proper grammar (not grammer!) rules and usage rules, but don't always use them anymore. I wonder if I am losing brain cells or getting my punishment for being picky. Like Kay, I do cringe now and then though.

**Catty1** · 07-07-2007, 01:41 PM

I just created a Spelling Thread - voluntary only!

Let's see how it goes!

**cassiesmom** · 07-18-2007, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by sirrahbed

I have tended to be a member of the "Spelling Police" for most of my early years (college major was English the first time around

)...but now I make so many of my own goofs that I don't have much room to point out the goofs I see. If I stop and think - I know proper grammar (not grammer!) rules and usage rules, but don't always use them anymore. I wonder if I am losing brain cells or getting my punishment for being picky. Like Kay, I do cringe now and then though.

I'm a full fledged Spelling Police Officer. Won the junior high spelling bee in eighth grade. I was blown out of the water by the words spelled by the Scripps Spelling Bee students, though. There were some I had not even heard before.

When my nieces send e-mail and text messages, they do use 'prolly' as shorthand for 'probably'. Their old aunt (me) also learned a new one from them today: 'cos' is shorthand for 'because', at least around here

I had a teacher in high school that insisted on proper pronunciation for words like what, when, why: "hwat", "hwen", "hwy" instead of "wat", "wen", "wy". That's a habit I never did get into.