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| Hertz Pro Member United States Joined 4518 days ago 47 posts - 63 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 33 of 43 19 July 2012 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
The words beginning with occ- come, I believe, from Latin: occlude, occupy, occasion, occidental, occult. I don't know if this is a Latin prefix, or if they are just superficially similar words. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4849 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 34 of 43 19 July 2012 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, you are right. Those are words of Latin origin. The prefix in question is "ob-" which is assimilated to "oc-" before c. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5151 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 35 of 43 19 July 2012 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"Wyoming" is quite hard to spell. The English spell rules aren´t easy either. "Early" is
somewhat problematin for me.. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| MixedUpCody Senior Member United States Joined 5261 days ago 144 posts - 280 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 36 of 43 24 July 2012 at 1:46am | IP Logged | |||||
For several years I used to read about a book a week, and I still can't spell very well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 37 of 43 24 July 2012 at 2:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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The word "tomorrow". I never remember whether there is a double "m" or a double "r" -
if I type I usually have to write both and see which one looks right :). If you come up with any nice mnemonic for that please let me know :) Some years ago, I used to have the same problem with "view" vs. "wiev": I was always 90% sure that "view" is the right spelling but still had to type "wiev" just to see how wrong it looks :) (that's probably an interference from my native Polish where "w" is pronounced the way the English "v" is). Plus, I tend to forget in some cases which spelling is American and which one is British so I'm not as consistent as I would like to be. Edited by Julie on 24 July 2012 at 2:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Edudg Pentaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 4676 days ago 16 posts - 28 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Italian, English, French, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Swedish | Message 38 of 43 24 July 2012 at 3:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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In English? definitely (i just checked on google) "definetly" !
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4673 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 39 of 43 24 July 2012 at 9:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The best thing to help you spell better:
Activate the spelling checker in your browser. All words you've spelled incorrectly will be underlined. After that, make sure you write down (on a piece of paper or in a notebook) all those words. When you have time, just take a look at this paper (or in a notebook) to make sure you know how to spell these words correctly. ;) Edited by Medulin on 24 July 2012 at 9:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4849 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 40 of 43 25 July 2012 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
You can remember it this way: "Tomorrow" consists of the two parts "to" and "morrow", which is an ancient word for "morning". So there can't be a double m. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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