Growing up in Canada, I had to contend with learning two different spellings and pronunciations for words like “schedule”, “colour”, “omelette”, “zed” vs “zee”, “-ise” vs “-ize”, and so on and so forth, so I had to come up with some little tricks to remember how to spell things. Sometimes I’d put on a mental Quebecois or English accent.
Other ones like diarrhea was “Die-err-HEE-uh”, and now that I’m in Australia, it’s most definitely “Die-err-HOE-uh”. 😂
I also recite the ABCs more often than I should. I know a lot of you do, too.
What are some ways that you thought of to help you remember how to spell things? Any language counts.
I can’t spell anything without a dictionary or, these days a spell check. I usually know where the vowels go, so I cycle through them until the word “looks” right, or the red squiggle goes away.
I don’t like grammerly bc I know how to write, it’s just the spelling that vexes me.
I create my own Espanso autocorrect scripts based on my own common, repeated misspellings to reduce manual effort spent on dealing with squiggly lines. You don’t usually have to keep checking vowels manually, by the way; you can just right-click the word and suggestions will arise.