Studying for a spelling test

[kuulani]

Last night we were helping nalani's son study for his spelling test today. For a 5th-grade kid who's going to a Hawaiian language school, I was proud of his English spelling.

neighbor & patience. That was the two hardest words.

Other stupid words: Wednesday, people, know

 

[Luis G]

isn't it neighbour ?

 

[MitchSchaft]

no, she has it right.

 

[kuulani]

I think it's neighbour only in England.

 

[MitchSchaft]

what she said.

 

[ris]

yep, over here we use neighbour, australia mihgt as well but i'm not certain of that

 

[ris]

but then i can't spell 'might'

 

[Luis G]

seems that most of the time i spell "the english way"

 

[Jeslek]

seems that most of the time i spell "the english way"

You seem very Britishy.

Its neighbor, color, favor, honor, harbor, etc., in American English. Even Canadians use them some of the time. And I know the brits use them when they change the font color

 

[ris]

i'm looking at the colour selecter on this reply page and i see font colour

 

[MitchSchaft]

Doh. I guess we can change which language we want to see.

 

[Luis G]

geez

neighbour, colour, flavour.

however: Honor, harbor.

 

[Jeslek]

Doh. I guess we can change which language we want to see.

Try using [colour]. It does not work like [colo r] (remove space)

 

[ris]

i picked the commie setting, it adds hammer and sickle's to each av

 

[MitchSchaft]

LOL. We need a commie smilie, man.

 

[ris]

indeed, a nice red one, free from the shackles of the the capitalist oppressors.

 

[nalani]

I'm actually really proud of my son and his proficiency in both Hawaiian and English ..

and can you just imagine how screwed up he'd be if he had to learn all the "various ways according to geographic location" to spell certain words? ... hell, that's be enough for me to pull him out of school

 

[Luis G]

out of school ?

shouldn't it be "ot of school"?

 

[Shadowfax]

geez

neighbour, colour, flavour.

however: Honor, harbor.

I spell that exactly the same way....I have a strange mix op English and American

 

[Scanty]

I think it's neighbour only in England.

And Scotland, Ireland and Wales.