In our beloved distant past, when we were young, there was a blue rectangle notebook which he wrote on it in neat letters: «Spelling». There we were tested on the correct spelling of the new words we were learning. And the notebook may have ended once, but the new words continued...
There are those words that we know and write, but there is always a seed of doubt about their correct spelling that torments you whether they are really spelled that way or not. We would say it's a peculiar OCD that most of us have with words like:
1.Attachments: The word - king of doubt. And which of us, before sending a mail, hasn't sat for 4 minutes looking at the ceiling with a wrinkled forehead, wondering how many «e's» and how many «n's» are in that word, until he finally decides to write it:
«Attached are these records»?;
2.Processing: Okay, it's not a completely everyday word that we write on our shopping list like: get eggs, milk, paper towels, and to complete this action go to the supermarket. However, when the need arises to use it in a more formal speech, we wonder where it wants epsilon and where it wants alpha yota until we peek.
3. The nightmare of «done» and its derivatives, such as the words «undone», «predetermined», «repeatedly». We want to write «unfulfilled obligations» and there it is again, that look of wonderment that from a distance looks like a mini stroke.
4.Flooding: The spelling of the word is as destructive as its meaning. If for some reason you want to check someone's spelling, possibly the word «flood» would be an appropriate test. It's not just that within 8 letters it has two liquids, a hyphen, a hyphen and a defeat, it's also that we use it quite rarely.
5.Further: And just when you have written a nice letter as it should be, which has the word «enclosures» and the word «processing» in it, the final sting comes - the phrase «for further information». Everything was going so well, well we are not now to think about every word for 11 minutes. You write «for further information» and the job is done.
6. The panic of the highlander and his defeat at the word «message». Although we both write and see this word often, for some reason it sometimes puzzles us and makes us think twice. The word «feminine» also belongs to this category.
7. Instinctively: The second omega of the word is clear, okay, adverbs are spelled with an omega. But the first? Considering it comes from the word instinct spelled omicron, logic says it should be omicron, why is it omega? And your grammar says it's «phlegmatic passion».
But I'm sorry, is that what passion is?;
8. I'm worried: As a matter of fact, a little concern is raised by this word. Some of us need to do an equation before writing it down. They think about how to spell the word quiet, if defeat is first, then they add the negative - «if» to it, making it a verb. It takes a brain process, some of us don't spell the word so instinctively; sorry, instinctively.
9. Dilemma: There is no greater dilemma than whether the word «dilemma» is spelled with two «lambdas» or two «e's».
10. Consciously: More than a few times this word has been misspelled, especially under pressure. But as an enlightened elder in Tibet has said, «When you have to write the word “consciously”, bring to mind the word “news” and everything will fall into place.».
And finally, a proverb of the category «I need an epiphany so that I can articulate it in full without bothering»: you take the attitude of the ultimate guru of life to stick the other person to the wall by saying «Where you are, I have been and where I am, you will come‘ and you start thinking for ten minutes about who has come and who is going where.
Okay, better send it «attached»!
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