Hard to spell words

El_Machinae

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• Dec 13, 2005

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We have a casual Friday coming up. This means that we can 'dress down' and take off our ties and dress shoes. There's a slang term for this type of dress. It's called "Dressing casj"

That's right, that 'casj' is supposed to be the shortened form of 'casual'.

But I have no idea on how to spell that word. I realised this while typing out an email to co-workers.
casg?
caj?
cas?
cash?
cashj?

Sigh. Any help here? On topic would be another word that we use quite bit that doesn't have a proper spelling.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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It's not really a word, so there's no proper spelling for it. I'd write 'cas'; English pronunciation is flexible enough.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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i still dont get sue/sew/suew or whatever lawyers do

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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"Sue," just like the name. "Sew" is pronounced as "so," and involves needle and thread.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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El_Machinae said:

We have a casual Friday coming up. This means that we can 'dress down' and take off our ties and dress shoes. There's a slang term for this type of dress. It's called "Dressing casj"

That's right, that 'casj' is supposed to be the shortened form of 'casual'.

But I have no idea on how to spell that word. I realised this while typing out an email to co-workers.
casg?
caj?
cas?
cash?
cashj?

Sigh. Any help here? On topic would be another word that we use quite bit that doesn't have a proper spelling.

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I'd spell it out.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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I always screw up those words with like freakin' 5 vowels between two consonents like Baeauetiful

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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Congradulations, I bet no one can spell chek my post correctly in the next 5 posts.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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Perfection said:

I always screw up those words with like freakin' 5 vowels between two consonents like Baeauetiful

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I hate those words too... especially names with tons of vowels like that, like Boeoatical
By the way, it's beautiful.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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I am the Future said:

Congradulations, I bet no one can spell chek my post correctly in the next 5 posts.

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Congratulations, I bet no one can spell check my post correctly in the next 5 posts.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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North King said:

Congratulations, I bet no one can spell check my post correctly in the next 5 posts.

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Actually, Congradulations and Congratulations are both correct spellings.

In formal writing, though, 5 should be spelled "five."

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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Absolutely impossible.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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Close to impossible: syzygy. An astronomical occurence without any of the usual 5 vowels.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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neither leisure foreigner seized the weird height are the exceptions to the i before e rule.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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queue

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and yes, I had to look them up just now.

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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A girl wrote on her presentation:

"We dont have lawyers, cause no one should be sewed."

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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^ When everyone knows the correct word is "sewn"

 

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• Dec 13, 2005

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Yom said:

Actually, Congradulations and Congratulations are both correct spellings.

In formal writing, though, 5 should be spelled "five."

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Nope, Congratulations is the only corerct spelling.

 

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• Dec 14, 2005

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I seem to be the only person at my school (inc. science teachers) who can spell deoxyribonucleic acid properly.

Me?

Usually.

One S and two L's, not the other way round.

 

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• Dec 14, 2005

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I'd spell it "dress caz". At least that doesn't look too weird.

"Sue" is a weird one. Especially in progressive tense. When you drop the "e" and get "suing", it just looks wrong.

 

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• Dec 14, 2005

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Americans can't seem to spell a lot of words right. Ignoring the blatantly obvious "colour", "favour:, "criticise", etc., they can't even spell "mispell".

Personanlly, a lot of the ei - ie words get me. Tuesday I also get wrong a lot for some reason.