SPELLING BEE!

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:idea: Okay guys, tell me if you think this is a good idea: since allnurses.com does not have spell checker, I thought it might be helpful to have a thread where we could go to check our spelling. I don't want to sound high and mighty, but it would be so nice to see proper spelling on this website. I am not talking about the typos (reversing letters and such), but actual incorrect spelling of words that we should know! I hope that I have not offended anyone and will close the thread if I p**s off too many people!

I am going to start with the one word I see spelled incorrectly most often: "definitely".

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You could download a free browser such as Apple Safari that has an integrated spellcheck tool.

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Firefox also has an integrated spell checker...

Of course, if we do spelling then grammar is a must. We probably shouldn't go there though. There is a grammatical error in your very first sentence. :D

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One of the major problems with grammar, is the subjectivity in the way we interpret and apply the many existing concepts. Even among experts, I am surprised to find people have different opinions.

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One of the major problems with grammar, is the subjectivity in the way we interpret and apply the many existing concepts. Even among experts, I am surprised to find people have different opinions.

Indeed. Sometimes I wish that we had an 'American English' governing body to set official rules.

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There is a grammatical error in your very first sentence. :D

which is...that she didn't capitalize the s in since?

i know the colon is being used appropriately.

leslie

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Not sure it would work in our melting pot of a country. I quickly learned that English has different "rules" overseas. I still find myself typing words such as "centre" and "cheque."

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As was pointed out by someone I do believe I was in error about the colon! :D

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Typos don't upset me. My pet peeve is "your" in place of the contraction "you're". I can't help it. I'm a former journalist.

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As was pointed out by someone I do believe I was in error about the colon! :D

"And when we were wrong promptly admitted it" from the AA 12 steps. Namely,Step 10. :yeah:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Acute Rehab.

thanks for the reference in wiki.. i love debating spelling and grammar! this is what it said: "as with many other punctuation marks, the usage of colon varies among languages and, for a given language, among historical periods. as a rule, however, a colon informs the reader that what follows proves and explains, or simply enumerates elements of what is referred to before.

  • syntactical-deductive: introduces the logical consequence, or effect, of a fact stated before
  • syntactical-descriptive: introduces a description—in particular, makes explicit the elements of a set
  • appositive: introduces a sentence with the role of apposition with respect to the previous one

i thought that maybe the appositive use of the colon was correct. what do you think? can you tell i have no life??? lol

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Acute Rehab.

Atheos...you may not have been wrong. That's why I replied. Regardless, you are obviously quite intelligent. But this thread was to be about the spelling issues on this board. What I am thinking is that the ones who need it the most, will not even look at this posting!

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