The Friday Five for June 16, 2023
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thefridayfive1. Can you diagram a sentence?
2. What word do you always spell wrong, no matter what?
3. What word always looks like it's spelled wrong to you but isn’t?
4. Do you have any little memory games when it comes to similar words, like principle and principal?
5. Was grammar something you enjoyed or detested in school?
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2. What word do you always spell wrong, no matter what?
3. What word always looks like it's spelled wrong to you but isn’t?
4. Do you have any little memory games when it comes to similar words, like principle and principal?
5. Was grammar something you enjoyed or detested in school?
Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.
If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DW or LJ. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so please feel free to suggest some more!
**Remember that we rely on you, our members, to help keep the community going. Also, please remember to play nice. We are all here to answer the questions and have fun each week. We repost the questions exactly as the original posters submitted them and request that all questions be checked for spelling and grammatical errors before they're submitted. Comments re: the spelling and grammatical nature of the questions are not necessary. Honestly, any hostile, rude, petty, or unnecessary comments need not be posted, either.**
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Date: 2023-06-17 11:55 am (UTC)1. Can you diagram a sentence?
Technically I know what this means, and I expect I could do it, but I don't know the methodology. Breaking up a sentence into clauses, identifying verbs etc. is easy for me.
2. What word do you always spell wrong, no matter what?
"Medicinal", which I always spell (and say) as mecidinal.
3. What word always looks like it's spelled wrong to you but isn’t?
"Phoenix" really feels like it should be "Pheonix".
4. Do you have any little memory games when it comes to similar words, like principle and principal?
Not that I'm aware of.
5. Was grammar something you enjoyed or detested in school?
I loved it, because I was a brainy little swot who could remember it very well, and being correct gave me some small vestige of power and authority over the less brainy people who bullied me.
Now I'm older and more secure in myself. Mostly thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cosmolinguist's good influence, I understand that perfect grammatical correctness is a racist tool used for oppression. Between those things I'm a lot less critical of other peoples' spelling and grammar, though I'm always happy to help when somebody wants to get it "right".