04-04-2009, 18:05
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Re: speeling ??????
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oh that was a mistake mate meant to press reply , no offence intended.
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04-04-2009, 18:08
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Re: speeling ??????
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'Until' or 'till'
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it's 'til - 1 l, a till is something used in a shop 
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04-04-2009, 18:23
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Re: speeling?
From Chambers..
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until prep 1 up to the time of • worked until 8. 2 up to the time of reaching (a place); as far as • slept until Paris. 3 with negatives before • not until Wednesday. conj 1 up to the time that • He waited until she emerged with the money. 2 with negatives before • not until I say so.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c as untille; see till1.
till1 prep up to the time of • wait till tomorrow. conj up to the time when • go on till you reach the station. See also until.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon til.
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That 13 c spelling shows how much the language has changed..
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04-04-2009, 19:23
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Re: speeling ??????
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it's 'til - 1 l, a till is something used in a shop |
Wrong!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/till
...but why, when it's 'until'?
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04-04-2009, 20:23
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Re: speeling?
surely the question should be 'speeling' or 'spelling'
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04-04-2009, 20:36
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Re: speeling ??????
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Yeah I've just looked it up, apparently either is correct, I was only taught 'til at school, it's a shortened form of "until" but till is a completely separate and correct word apparently
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04-04-2009, 22:02
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Re: speeling?
Yet again I'm the Invisible Woman.. 
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04-04-2009, 22:28
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Re: speeling?
Sorry Maggy I missed your post 
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05-04-2009, 10:03
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Re: speeling?
< cough >. I'm even more invisible. #10
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05-04-2009, 10:24
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Re: speeling?
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< cough >. I'm even more invisible. #10
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Mrs and Mrs Invisible.We should start a club.
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05-04-2009, 12:40
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Re: speeling?
My General Rule of English Spelling:
For words whose pronunciation is different from the spelling, if it looks wrong it's right, and vice versa.
FYI, I got an A for my AEB English ('O' Level equivalent, but harder), and consider myself an excellent speller (if there is such a word!). This is in spite of 5 years of pretty much continual warnings that if my handwriting didn't improve before the exam, my paper would be thrown in the bin. The general opinion of it was that it looked like the trail of a spider with too many legs that'd fallen into an inkwell and wandered over the page after drinking far too much of whatever spiders drink on a night out.
It didn't improve. It couldn't (and hasn't in the 30+ years since). I tried everything, I really did. I still got an A. Go figure. 
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05-04-2009, 13:20
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Re: speeling?
One we have fun with at work ;
enrol or enroll
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05-04-2009, 13:25
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Re: speeling?
dispatch or despatch?
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05-04-2009, 15:07
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Re: speeling?
any ideas on insitue ( as in still in place )
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05-04-2009, 15:11
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Re: speeling?
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dispatch or despatch?
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Both are correct
The other one that I like
Material / Materiel
The later being ued for millitary hardware.
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