spelling quiz how do you spell?

wekracer wrote: Grandma would straighten any bod out on proper grammar. Didn’t matter who you were. However i was always poor at spelling. One word that bothers me is iregardless. It’s a double negative and spell check just accepted it. Regardless covers the point just fine.

Not to pick, just to point out,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it's irregardless.... TWO r's...  Not TOO or TO, but TWO...

Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote: Bill_MN, you are spot on. I am amazed or more likely dismayed at the number of people these days that can not spell and/or interchange words like to, too, or two; they're or their; lose or loose. I'm just a dumb old country boy but I had a red headed aunt who was my freshman English teacher and she didn't cut me one bit of slack. I guess she scarred me for life.

YES!!!  Bill is as about right as rain.
Hubert, you forgot about there...and there are a host of others!!!  Go back to (I believe it was 1973) when someone wrote about the "Dumbing down of America".  It was true then, and it's getting worse every year since. 
ALL these teachers going on strike and screaming,,,,,,,,,,,,FIRE THE WHOLE works!!!  There are a lot of people out there LOOKING for a job, a career, a lively hood.  Let's bring education BACK!!!!  I DO NOT WANT ANYONE TO TEACH my grandchildren, or great grandchildren....  I WANT SOMEONE TO EDUCATE them.  There is a WORLD of difference.  Those of us who are old enough KNOW this.  The WORST part is the political machine that is trying to coerce our children into being pawns in the political process...WHAT A SHAME!!
SORRY about my ranting,,,,but I truly believe in EDUCATING our prodigy instead of TEACHING them....  Shame on ALL the azzholes who fit into this farce of teaching our children in America.  AND I MEAN FARCE!!!
Teachers who disagree with me,,,,,,,,,wanna sit down and we can argue and YOU WILL LOSE....

Grandma would straighten any bod out on proper grammar. Didn’t matter who you were. However i was always poor at spelling. One word that bothers me is iregardless. It’s a double negative and spell check just accepted it. Regardless covers the point just fine.

Greg, that may have came from below the 33rd parallel

Here is another one

There are LOTS of words used in differing parts of the country that a person would not know about if not for travel or reading them on the I net.
I grew up hearing and using pertnear or was it two words, pert near?  Commonly (or used to be anyway) used term in southern MN.


Edited by Butch(OH) - 20 Apr 2018 at 5:47am

It was prolly me...  just saves keystrokes...

What really makes me grind my teeth is when someone writes "prolly". Its probably, Idiot!

naked or nekkid

Hanger or hangar

Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote: I'm just a dumb old country boy but I had a red headed aunt who was my freshman English teacher and she didn't cut me one bit of slack. I guess she scarred me for life.

I think we need way more like her today, a teacher that can scare the crap out of the whole bunch all at once.
 One misuse of words that cracks me up is are for our

Bill_MN, you are spot on. I am amazed or more likely dismayed at the number of people these days that can not spell and/or interchange words like to, too, or two; they're or their; lose or loose. I'm just a dumb old country boy but I had a red headed aunt who was my freshman English teacher and she didn't cut me one bit of slack. I guess she scarred me for life. 

Dual is for tires
Duel is for a gunfight
Disk is for a piece of farm equipment, or a computer disk as it is short for diskette
Disc is for a round flat geometrical shape
Axle as in shaft
Axel is a proper name


Edited by Bill_MN - 19 Apr 2018 at 2:05pm

Disc, Duals, axle

A "disc" is a piece of tillage equipment.
A "disk" as i was taught was short for "diskette", the old square floppy thing that you put into your first computer and stored files on.

Here's another one...is it axel or axle?

Edited by steelwheelAcjim - 19 Apr 2018 at 10:59am