ragani

I know some people who seem to have a natural talent for spelling (

devonapple's wife, for example), but I am not one of them (I miss about half of these). In second grade I was tested above average in everything but spelling (for which I was only at a second grade level). My little (half) sister has the same problem, which seems to confound our family since our father does not. Both my older (half) brother and

abditus have poor spelling as bad as mine with the added challenge of dyslexia. I especially get tripped-up on things like when to use a double letter, and all those silly silent letters, and of course, vowels. I try to follow all those rules, but then they are broken and I am supposed to remember all of those exceptions!

( I mean really, do I tease people who are not confident artists? )

( When than was then )

While trying to help

abditus find the correct spelling of the French word for those little snack foods served before a main dish, I came across a very handy list.

Not only was it able to clarify the hors d’oeuvres quandry I was able to review the than/then issue I had back when I was 10, as well as discovered I was not as wrong about the use of towards as I thought (based on so many spell-checkers correcting me) I was. Oh, and one that has been bugging me in LJ and IM has finally been sorted out. Yay!

Check it out and see if you can excise your own spelling and/or grammar ghosts. There is even a non-errors section of things people are incorrectly correcting. And by the way, it is OK or O.K. although okay is also OK. I am sure I will find many more as I review.

edit: to fix okay per noirem