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?
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Date: 2023-06-18 09:32 pm (UTC)Yes, I can. I remember us being shown sentence-diagramming in 5th or 6th grade and picking it up pretty easily. I may be a little fuzzy about what symbols and lines to use to indicate "this modifies that" but I've still got the basics.
2. What word do you always spell wrong, no matter what?
I have a handful of those. Quandary always comes out as quandry. I'll perhaps catch it during proofreading but quandary just looks wrong to me. Then, for recurrent typos, there's a major city in Michigan that my fingers want to render as Detriot. It's not like quandary where my brain thinks it ought to be Detriot or anything, just my fingers.
3. What word always looks like it's spelled wrong to you but isn’t?
Aside from quandary, buses hurts my brain — as spelled, it ought to rhyme with fuses and excuses and abuses, but for some silly reason the plural of bus isn't busses although the kisses are allowed to have that.
4. Do you have any little memory games when it comes to similar words, like principle and principal?
Don't tend to need them, so no.
5. Was grammar something you enjoyed or detested in school?
Mostly enjoyed. I picked up most of the rules sponge-style just from reading, so in grammar class I was getting the formal rules I already knew informally, and I liked seeing the official structure spelled out like that.