I am a word junkie and a grammar Nazi. I don't have the education to back it up but I was raised by a mom with impeccable grammar and such. I love words, and English was always my fav subject. I always aced my English classes and spelling etc., from kindergarten right up to high school.
Reading, reading, reading as a child, into adulthood anything I could get my eyes on. The cereal box or the shampoo bottles it didn't matter.
My kids grew up with the thirty minutes rule. Read anything. A comic book or a novel before bed for that time.
They are now instilling that rule upon their children. 💖
One of my pet peeves (I have many) is the writing of numbers less than (what is it? 100 or 1000?) a certain amount as numerals and not spelled out. I always write them out from one to ninety nine. Unless I'm being a lazy jerk, and I hate myself afterward 🤣
Numbers rules in Standard American English vary by genre and use within a book (for example, the numbers style for a caption is different from the style for the body text).
And you just gave me a good example for a mistake in phonics. I have no idea whether it applies to Canadian English, but it does to US English and alters pronunciation. Maybe I'll use it in the next post. THANKS!!!!!
LMAO. It's a phonics error in US English. Sometimes people do it with the shortened form of my first name (which is NOT "Phooey"), and it drives me nuts because it is not pronounced as the phonics killers think it will be. I'll address it in the next post. Again, you are too funny! PS I've worked on Canadian mss, and sometimes a publisher will use British/Canadian English and other times I won't have to adjust for US English, spelling, and punctuation.
My first name has been mispronounced since the day I was born.
There is another name very close to it, but mine is the French/European version. I always have people saying it the North American (or maybe it's British?) way. 😒
I am a word junkie and a grammar Nazi. I don't have the education to back it up but I was raised by a mom with impeccable grammar and such. I love words, and English was always my fav subject. I always aced my English classes and spelling etc., from kindergarten right up to high school.
Reading, reading, reading as a child, into adulthood anything I could get my eyes on. The cereal box or the shampoo bottles it didn't matter.
My kids grew up with the thirty minutes rule. Read anything. A comic book or a novel before bed for that time.
They are now instilling that rule upon their children. 💖
One of my pet peeves (I have many) is the writing of numbers less than (what is it? 100 or 1000?) a certain amount as numerals and not spelled out. I always write them out from one to ninety nine. Unless I'm being a lazy jerk, and I hate myself afterward 🤣
I love, love, love!
Numbers rules in Standard American English vary by genre and use within a book (for example, the numbers style for a caption is different from the style for the body text).
And you just gave me a good example for a mistake in phonics. I have no idea whether it applies to Canadian English, but it does to US English and alters pronunciation. Maybe I'll use it in the next post. THANKS!!!!!
Ooooh! Can't wait to see what word it is!
Did my shortening of favourite drive you crazy? 🤣
Yeah that's how we spell it in Canuckistan. There's a U in it
LMAO. It's a phonics error in US English. Sometimes people do it with the shortened form of my first name (which is NOT "Phooey"), and it drives me nuts because it is not pronounced as the phonics killers think it will be. I'll address it in the next post. Again, you are too funny! PS I've worked on Canadian mss, and sometimes a publisher will use British/Canadian English and other times I won't have to adjust for US English, spelling, and punctuation.
Schedule!! All of a sudden here in Canada, about 20 years ago they started saying *shed-yule* on the Teeeeeeveeeeee news.
WTF!? I was taught in grade four spelling class that it's pronounced sked-yew-ul.
Mandella effect? CERN?
What!? Yo' mama dint name ya Phooey? 🤣 Who knew!?
My first name has been mispronounced since the day I was born.
There is another name very close to it, but mine is the French/European version. I always have people saying it the North American (or maybe it's British?) way. 😒
Eye
Haytes
Dat!