Alis girls Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 My ES 17 struggles with restaurant (puts an extra A) . Being medical I struggle with Psychiatrist and Alzheimers (I looked them up ) I worked with a Doctors receptionist who couldnt spell diarrhoea and put a word rhyming with hit Several times a colleague has soaked a patients legs in a "Bowel" and not a bowl - mind boggles. Messy business nursing - some howlers believe me and I know of a nurse who had a patient coming for jabs for travel to Toyland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Many years ago I came across someone in a benefit office who checked forms from unemployed folk who were sick. He had accumulated 56 different spellings of the word "stomach"!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 My ES 17 struggles with restaurant (puts an extra A) . Being medical I struggle with Psychiatrist and Alzheimers (I looked them up ) I worked with a Doctors receptionist who couldnt spell diarrhoea and put a word rhyming with hit Several times a colleague has soaked a patients legs in a "Bowel" and not a bowl - mind boggles. Messy business nursing - some howlers believe me and I know of a nurse who had a patient coming for jabs for travel to Toyland. Did the last patient have big ears? - So sorry - I couldn't resist that one! Seriously, when I used to work properly (ie; before children!) one of my jobs was collating payroll returns which included sickness forms - one member of staff was off with diehorrah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I struggle with lots of words but different words different days (dyslexia, which today I think is spelt correctly). Yesterday I couldn't work out how to spell 'does', I was pretty sure it began with a 'd' (but not 100% sure) and couldn't get beyond that. Other days I'm not bad. It can be very frustrating and when I really can't get a word spell check is no use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I have to write about the public sector quite a lot and the number of times my fingers have missed out the 'l'.... I also seem incapble of writing ratio - it always comes out as ration Its not I can't spell the words, its something to do with my touch typing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I always seem to have trouble with ie words - receive, receipt,sincerely Thank Goodness for spell checker! And yes, I just spelt all 3 of those wrong typing this out & spell checker picked them up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbug Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 quote="Cinnamon"]I always seem to have trouble with ie words - receive, receipt,sincerely Thank Goodness for spell checker! I always remember with a little rhyme - 'I before E except after C' otherwise I would get it wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majorbloodnock Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I always seem to have trouble with ie words - receive, receipt,sincerelyThank Goodness for spell checker! I always remember with a little rhyme - 'I before E except after C' otherwise I would get it wrong Unfortunately, that rhyme is no longer taught. In fact, there are more exceptions to that rule than valid examples. Ho hum... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlina Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I used be be a very poor speller. Then an editor told me in very plain terms that I would be sacked if I spelled 'referred' or anything else incorrectly ever again. Such a threat concentrates the attention wonderfully I found Our students are banned from using a spell checker (as are many media offices) - this poem, which we put in all their handbooks, shows why..... Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. > Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong. > Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Seriously, when I used to work properly (ie; before children!) one of my jobs was collating payroll returns which included sickness forms - one member of staff was off with diehorrah! what's wrong with Dire Rear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Oh, how apt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Leia Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 It never ceases to amaze me that they chose to use the word dyslexia to describe word blindness. Couldn't they have chosen something simpler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Yes that was a cruel trick I think you know the words I can't spell I must have been irritating the hell out of you for years. Having spellchecker and seeing words change in front of has made me realise it. At 62 am I too old to learn to spell again. I wish my teachers had told me when I was young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 One thing that I do remember from School is that we were taught never,never ever to start a sentence with the word 'And'. Then straight after we would have RE, & every other sentence in the Bible seems to star with 'And'. Neither teacher could or would explain it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 I have problems with fulfil/fulfilled. It doesn't look right. Many years ago had to rewrite 28 school reports because I had written 'fulfill his potential' (or some such similar phrase.) Also focus/focused/focussed. But some places now argue focussed is ok. I have little rhymes I teach children to spell because (Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants) and they are sent home to teach their parents this rhyme for diarrhoea (Diarrhoea: In A Rush, Run Hard Or Else Accident). Or just write upset tum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 I've started work in Customer Services and so get emails and letters from the public which we have to deal with all day, the amount of spelling mistakes and poor grammar is shocking! This week we had a handwritten letter with something like "A wood eppreciate if you ken contac me" A contact centre answers all calls and we have to read their notes afterwards to deal with the complaints - most people say they recieved a telephone call from... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted October 20, 2013 Author Share Posted October 20, 2013 I feel your pain - at work in the mornings I have to go through the out of hours letters - those pts going to walk in centres. The report is often by people to whom English is a second language and the spellings of normal words is dreadful, thats without the medical ones like Cinamon's "dire rear" . I can see a nasty mistake happening soon if its not already. Our Hungarian HCA says shes learned a lot of English sayings off me. Somewhat worried as when stressed a lot of East Midland slang is uttered a long with the odd er expletive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 they are sent home to teach their parents this rhyme for diarrhoea (Diarrhoea: In A Rush, Run Hard Or Else Accident). Wish I'd known that last week when I had occasion to have to write the word diarrhoea . This week we had a handwritten letter with something like "A wood eppreciate if you ken contac me" . Say that in a Scottish accent and it's perfectly acceptable . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 I work with people who have speech and language difficulties after stroke, which includes reading and writing as well as speaking. Invariably, this leads to some interesting spellings of words. Recently, I had an e-mail from one of my clients in which she told me she thought I had 'neutral beauty'... I'm assuming she meant natural, unless she was just being really blunt about my appearance!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 feminine....Horrid word, usually femanine or femamine or some other, thank goodness for spell check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Spell check is all very well but does have its limitations; I once had a secretary who sent a fax to The Manager at The National Wet Monster Bank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 I'd bank with them . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 soapdragon - that is truly priceless! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 *splutters* just choked on my risotto! Very good. I take it the letter didn't actually get as far as being posted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Well, that is what I for one will be calling it from now on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
