Those with spelling difficulties - PLEASE READ

[SeagullSongs]

Some tips

1. Avoid alliteration always.

2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

3. The passive voice is to be avoided.

4. Avoid clichés like the plague, they're old hat.

5. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

6. Writers should never generalize.

Seven. Be consistent.

8. Don't use more words than are necessary. It's highly superfluous.

9. Be more or less specific.

10. Exaggeration is a billion times worth than understatement.

 

[Chesney Christ]

This is brilliant. If ever a website needed a thread like this it's NSC. Some of the thickest specimens on Planet Earth post on here.

 

[Norman Potting]

Don't get me started on morons using the word "literally".

9 times out of 10, the user of the word does NOT know what it means.

When I see people mis-use it, my head literally explodes......

Jamie Oliver uses the word liberally. I suppose it lets people know that he is not speaking metaphorically.

I can spell because I were brung up proper.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Sadly I have noticed spelling and grammar have gone rapidly downhill since we moved to the Amex.

JCLs can't spell, have no sense of humour and fill threads with whining about how Brighton MUST get to the premier league this (their first) season or they will go back to supporting Chelsea.

When we were in the wilderness with a select few discerning fans the posts on here were uniformly INFORMATIVE, LITERATE, WISE often WITTY and even HILARIOUS.

We now seem to attract a bunch of hand wringing poofs and grasses who can't string a sentence together and want us to listen to their prattle about LOLS and totes amazeballs mates and that.

It used to be like a refined gentlemens club on here. The crackle of a log in the grate and the smell of men enjoying themselves. Now it's like the King and Queen, full of students who can't spell spouting drivel at each other and generic lager on tap.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Threads like this sort of make you want to do it more as it obviously bothers the prefects on here.

 

[tweenster]

Love this thread.

I can usually cope with apostrophes, and their/they're/there etc but, and I don't know why, the one that always confuses me is 'past' and 'passed'.

 

[otk]

I used to work with a bloke in the motor trade who would describe windscreen wipers as being designed for removing access water from the screen

 

[SeagullSongs]

Love this thread.

I can usually cope with apostrophes, and their/they're/there etc but, and I don't know why, the one that always confuses me is 'past' and 'passed'.

Things that have passed are now in the past.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Everything that could of gone wrong went wrong at Palace.

From the official Albion website.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Any way to make it easy to remember when to use license and when to use licence?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I could of been a contender!

 

[upthealbion1970]

spelling....the difference between knowing your shit


and knowing you're shit

 

[BadFish]

Any way to make it easy to remember when to use license and when to use licence?

License is a verb i give you license to use.

Licence is a thing I give you when you are able.

 

[BadFish]

All the problems in the world and this is the shit we get angry about?

 

[LadySeagull]

License is a verb i give you license to use.

Licence is a thing I give you when you are able.

Yep, it's the same with 'practise' and 'practice' which even my young son's school got wrong when they sent some spellings home 'for your child to practice'...

I resisted the urge to point it out. It's not as bad as the sign at the dentists as you drive out of Waitrose Brighton 'Practicing Gentle Treatment'... Prackticking??

 

[Wilko]

License is a verb i give you license to use.

Licence is a thing I give you when you are able.

Same as advice and advise or practice and practise.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Thank you. From now on, I'll remember that it matches advice and advise. I'm still shaky on practice and practise!

 

[BadFish]

Thank you. From now on, I'll remember that it matches advice and advise. I'm still shaky on practice and practise!

Same deal really

Practise is something you do to get better

Practice is somewhere you go.

 

[RexCathedra]

Good luck. I admire your enthusiasm but have only limited hope for success.

I'm a Latin teacher. My classroom is tucked between two English classrooms.
i tell people "For administrative purposes, all dead languages are kept together."

 

[Artois]