My friend and colleague, Dr. Guy Reel, just sent me this piece (click on boldface headline above) about nuances of our English language.
The article, a commentary from the New York Times, talks about these tricky pairs of words:
•straighten and straiten
•gibe and jibe
•teaming and teeming
•insuring and ensuring
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WOW... we discussed this in his class on Tuesday. It was very interesting, especially the whole gibe and jibe thing. I had no idea those were words!
Speaking of spell check, there is a good program Spell Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Net) it adds spell check to all programs.
That's interesting, I have never had any problems with those words. Dr. Timbs did you unsubscribe to my blog? Shame, shame! haha
Dr. Timbs! Spell check has screwed me over many a time...Anyway your email address keeps rejecting my messages so I figured I'd post my blog here...
http://kathleenb2189.blogspot.com/
It was great talking to you the other day.
:)
Hey Kathleen. Yes, spell check is surely not perfect. I once had a student, for example, write about a "toe truck"?
Nuf said!
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