A very simple bad spellers online dictionary exists at Aspell. The site is simplistic in nature and pretty self-explanatory. Enter the word as you think it’s spelled in the “Word:” box and click go. If you use the default options, you should be fine, but if the word is really obscure, you can change the…

click here for the phonetic chart Maybe you have heard the story about a foreign student coming to the UK to study law. During passport control, an airport employee asks him about the purpose of his visit. And the student answers: “To study love.” That’s how he thought “law” is pronounced in English. 🙂 Such…

hard c- “k” (before a, o, u) cod, cat, curl, cold, cross soft c “s” (before e, i, y) city, nice, face, circle, cement, cigarette, cinema, cyst, cycle, flaccid hard c -cc- “k” account, soccer, accrue, occupy, yucca, occasion soft c -cc- “s” (before e, i, y) accept, eccentric, occidental c- “ch” cello, vermicelli, cappuccino…

Let’s look at there and its usages and common phrases and see how we can remember it there – Where are they? Over there! There’s the cinema over there. We can use it with There is / there was plural version – there are/ there were We have phrases such as: Been there done that!…

Let’s look at those words again: put – putting, big-bigger, stop-stopped,  fat- fatten, run – running, thin – thinner,  sit – sitting, get – getting, stop-stopping, hot-hotter, swim – swimming… Do you know why we double up the last consonant? Say these words to yourself – put/sit/run/swim/thin/get – notice they all have one syllable sounds Notice…

Silent letters are the letters in words that are not pronounced but make a huge difference to the meaning and sometimes the pronunciation of the whole word. Most of these silent letters were pronounced for centuries then they became silent but the spelling was already fixed with these spellings, and now they show the history…

One rule we learn at school is the memory trick, “i before e except after c.” i before e – believe field, believe, niece, piece except after c so ei – receive, receipt, ceiling, Do we always use ei after c? Unfortunately, no. Look at these words with ie or ei after the c. Read…

Read these pair of words on/one, us/use, hat/hate, tap/tape, at/ate, mat/mate, sit/site, cap/cape, at/ate, quit/quite, win/wine. When we add an ‘e’ to the end of a lot of words, especially short vowel sound words, it changes the sound and meaning. It makes the vowel sound long and say its alphabet name: “a = ay,” “e…

What is Sesquipedalian?  Sesquipedalian are words that are a foot and a half long. In other words, sesquipedalian involves the overuse of long syllabic (multisyllabic) words or excessive use of extraordinarily long words. Some words are made longer by adding multiple suffixes and prefixes to the ordinary terms. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Floccinaucinihilipilification Antidisestablishmentarianism Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism Antidisestablishmentarianism supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Is it hard…

Are you ashamed or embarrased about your misspelling? Do you need to develop your spelling to get a good marks or a better job?   Do you need to write confidently? with conviction? assuredly? This blog is for you Misspelling give a bad impression, even though everyone is a bad speller we all face this problem…