How's your spelling?

[silentC]

its - it's - don't worry it gets me sometimes too. My mental rule is to replace the apostrophe with an i - it's itis it is.

I'm not surprised people have so much difficulty learning English. I sometimes use the wrong form of their/there/they're by mistake when I'm typing in a hurry.

[Gingermick]

Well, their you go, most people have there own difficulties with homophones.
Their over they're.

[munruben]

affect and effect always troubled me.
How about pore, poor, pour, paw. Must be difficult for someone trying to learn English.

[wheelinround]

pound and its meanings

even the word spell has different meanings "to spell" as is being discussed here
as to give a break what horses are having right now
to give or create, cast a spell

Mine = under ground type = belongs too
miner or is it minor

discombobulate

or the word on everyones lips many years ago supercalafragalisticexpealidotous look it up it had kids spelling world wide

[munruben]

Fat chance and slim chance. Isn't that confusing? Which one should we use.

[Christopha]

Just be patient or your lack of patience may see you become a patient which is patently a poor choice. I think.... maybe....

[silentC]

Fat chance and slim chance. Isn't that confusing? Which one should we use.

Slim chance means what it says. Fat chance is an example of irony. Like saying "that was easy" to your mate when he has just helped you lift a 200kg table saw off your trailer.

[munruben]

Slim chance means what it says. Fat chance is an example of irony. Like saying "that was easy" to your mate when he has just helped you lift a 200kg table saw off your trailer.

I'll have to remember that.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

its - it's - don't worry it gets me sometimes too. My mental rule is to replace the apostrophe with an i - it's itis it is.

'Tis not something I worry about.

Slim chance means what it says. Fat chance is an example of irony. Like saying "that was easy" to your mate when he has just helped you lift a 200kg table saw off your trailer.

Yeah. A slim chance describes the odds that he'll help you out next time... and "fat chance" is what he'll say if you ask 'im!

[Iain]

[QUOTE=Gingermick;590258]Well, their you go, most people have there own difficulties with homophones.
QUOTE]

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[Gingermick]

why didn't you highlight the other one?

[K_S]

affect and effect always troubled me.
How about pore, poor, pour, paw. Must be difficult for someone trying to learn English.

Especially because lingo lessons cost so much -
hard to do when your pore, or is it poor, or pour, or paw.

[Carry Pine]

.....and what does 'cleave' mean? Does it mean to chop in half like a meat cleaver or to join something together like a man cleaves to his wife?
Well it's both and thank goodness it's spelt the same way.

CP

[Jedo_03]

I challenge anyone to read the Geordie English language (eeryone except a Geordie of course) I am sorry I have lost the ability to speak it although stick me in a room with one and I can still translate after 40+ yrs.

Roll on unisversal understanding

whyyer bugga hinney... ivry whair y seem t gan y bumpinta a geordie...
s whairaboots didja yoosta kickya byuts off wen y waas a bairn?
cheers
Jedo
( a Mackem...)

[Honorary Bloke]

or the word on everyones lips many years ago supercalafragalisticexpealidotous look it up it had kids spelling world wide

I suggest you look it up too--misspelled.