Spelling

Finally, The Right Way To Spell The December Jewish Holiday

Paul Golin | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Holidays, Jewish Holidays, Jews, Debate, Chanukah, Hanukkah, Holiday Season, Judaism, How to Spell, Jewish, Spelling, Chanukkah, Hanukah, Religion News
Paul Golin

There has long been a war brewing in America over a December religious holiday and no, I don't mean the silly non-issue "War on Christmas." I'm talking about the hubbub over how to spell the Jewish Festival of Lights.

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The Most Common Spelling Errors in College

Uloop | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Spelling, College, Spelling Errors, College News
Uloop

By Sarah Fudin Lehigh University Most college students rely on the blessing of spell-check to prevent embarrassing misspellings on papers or in email...

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Paging the 'On-Buzz Man': Students' Creative Spelling Screw-Ups

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: College Students, Homophones, Spelling, Language, Spellcheck, Writing, English Language, College News
The Chronicle of Higher Education

I will always treasure a student's article about a Board of Education meeting that referred to "the Super Attendant of Schools"--an oddly apt designation.

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WATCH: Your Grammar Sucks

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Jack, Video, Your Grammar Sucks, Parodies, Comments, Parody, The One, Youtube, Spelling, Grammar, Urlesque, Spelling Errors, Youtube Comments, Comedy News

Jack is taking a stand against the horrible spelling and grammar displayed by most YouTube commenters by doing a dramatic reading of some of his favor...

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Fun, Easy Ways to Keep Kids' School Skills Fresh This Summer

Sharon Duke Estroff | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Kids, Spelling, School, Fun Family Activities, Reading, Summer Learning Loss, Summer Brain Drain, Summer, Math, Academic Skills, Education News
Sharon Duke Estroff

During the school-year, critical academic skills are regularly reinforced. Summer is a completely different story, as most kids hardly pick up a pencil in June, July and August.

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Matt Sledge

Subletting On Craigslist? Try Grammar

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Ebay, Online Spelling, Online Reviews, Craigslist, New York City Apartments, Spelling, Grammar, NY Real Estate, Robert Lane Greene, Panos Ipeirotis, English Language, New York News

NEW YORK -- The desperate, last-minute hustle to rent a room in New York City often ends, for both landlords and tenants, on Craigslist. The site stre...

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National Spelling Bee's Youngest Finalist From Denver

AP | JOSEPH WHITE | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Spelling, Spelling Bee Finals, Spelling Bee Finalist, Denver News, National Spelling Bee, National Spelling Bee Finals, Dhivya Murugan, Denver News

OXON HILL, Md. — It went on and on and on. Five spellers who seemingly had memorized the entire dictionary simply could not be stumped with any ...

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WATCH: Teacher Allegedly Flips Out After Child Misspells Word

Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Spelling, Mistreatment, Video, Substitute Teacher, Sunnyside Elementary School, Cumberland County, Education News

In Cumberland County, N.C., a father is ready to press charges after a substitute teacher allegedly mistreated his son Alonzo for misspelling a word o...

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Use It or Lose It -- The Departure of Vocabulary From American Culture

Diana Bianchini | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Spelling, Games, Education, Kids, Culture, Family, Education News
Diana Bianchini

It is vital that teachers and parents engage students meaningfully with the words on which they are being tested every Friday. Words should be read aloud, written, and used in conversations.

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English And American Spelling: Two Countries Separated By One Language

dailywritingtips.com | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Spelling, American Vocabulary, American Spelling, British English, British Spelling, American English, Books News

As George Bernard Shaw is said to have said, "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." It's easy enough to find books an...

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1st National Spelling Bee Winner Dies, Won With 'Gladiolus'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank Neuhauser, Spelling, Spelling Bee, Neuhauser, National Spelling Bee, Gladiolus, Education News

WASHINGTON — Frank Neuhauser, who in 1925 won the first national spelling bee with the word "gladiolus," and went on to become a patent lawyer, ...

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'America's Next Great Restaurant' Now Spelling 'Restaurateur' Correctly

Eater National | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spelling, Food Tv, America's Next Great Restaurant, Bobby Flay, Misspelling, Nbc, Food News

Last week we posted about how NBC and Magical Elves misspelled restaurateur in the titles to the TV show America's Next Great Restaurant -- they spell...

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Guardian First Book Award

BBC News | Paul Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Prize, Book Publishing, Writers, Copyediting, Writing, Literary Prize, Book Award, Guardian, Editing, Authors, Spelling, Maxwell Perkins, Editors, Claire Armitstead, Novelist, Books News

The shortlist of titles for the Guardian First Book award has been announced. But even before deliberations reached this stage, the prize has become t...

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Mark Twain's Discourse: A Timeless Writing Course

Patricia Benesh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spelling, How to Write, Mark Twain, Writing Style, Books News
Patricia Benesh

With the current excitement about the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography to be published in November, I re-visited some pages of his quotes about writing I'd collected through the years.

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Grammar Pet Peeves

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, University of Winchester, English Language Day, Arianna, Spelling, Pet Peeves, Grammar, Bad Grammar, Punctuation, Grammar Mistakes, Books News

Still, there's always more mischievous mistakes making way into our language and you -- HuffPost contributors and commenters -- have never been shy with sharing.

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National Punctuation Day

The Huffington Post | Sammy Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today is National Punctuation Day and language lovers across the country have been celebrating all things grammatical. With the proliferation of pu...

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Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grammar Errors, Grammar Mistakes, Pluralizations, Grammar Pet Peeves, Apostrophes, Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Books News
Arianna Huffington

Now I really hate to make such a big stink about a little squiggle. But sometimes a small thing like this can have much bigger ramifications.

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'The Great Typo Hunt': The Irresistible Allure Of Bad Spelling

Salon | Laura Wagner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spelling, Bad Spelling, Books, Spelling Mistakes, The Great Typo Hunt, Spelling Errors, Typos, Books News

In November of 2007, Jeff Deck encountered a sign that would change his life. He had just returned from his five-year college reunion at Dartmouth Col...

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Is English In Danger?

The Globe and Mail | Elizabeth Renzetti | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spelling, Academie Francaise, British English, American English, Queen's English Society, English Language, Grammar, Books News

Now the originators of our mother tongue have circled the wagons (perhaps that should be "carriages'') to fight for English, against the stealth appro...

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Grammar Pet Peeves: HuffPost Readers Pick The Worst Grammar, Spelling, Punctuation, And Malapropism Mistakes Ever (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grammar Errors, Malapropisms, Grammar Mistakes, Rush Limbaugh, Books, Writing, Grammar Pet Peeves, Spelling, Glenn Beck, Grammar, Slidepollajax, Punctuation, Books News

Grammar pet peeves seem to get as big a rise out of the HuffPost community as the off the wall comments of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. We've collect...

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National Spelling Bee Food Words

eater.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Scripps National Spelling Bee (the finals aired in primetime this past Friday) is some epic word-nerdery, and it's also full of super-obscure and ...

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10 Words You Need To Stop Misspelling

The Oatmeal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Missspelling, Writers, Effect, Oatmeal, Affect, Loose, Mispelling, Spelling, Grammar, Editors, Lose, Spell, Spel, Pet Peeves, Books News

Spelling pet peeves--everyone has got them. Here are 10 that drive people nuts. Which bug you the most? Any not on this list? Get HuffPost Books On...

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Why Simple Words Work Best

Ari Herzog | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Herzog

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

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Teabaggers Declare Independence from Spelling

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borowitz Report, Scott Brown, Andy Borowitz, Teabaggers, Health Care Reform, Spelling, Washington DC, Massachusetts Senate Race, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

Calling spelling "a plot by the government to control which letters we put into words," the Teabaggers are organizing a massive rally in Washington D.C. called, "Independence from Spelling Day."

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British Banning 'I Before E' Rule

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: English, Spelling, Education, Grammar, School, Style News

LONDON — It's a spelling mantra that generations of schoolchildren have learned _ "i before e, except after c." But new British government guid...

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