Throughout the school year, we have spent part of many mornings reviewing Colter's spelling words. He always passed his Friday tests beautifully, usually getting all of the words right. Tomorrow, he has his first spelling bee, which will draw from all the year's words. The only difference is that he's never had to spell the words out loud before (except at the breakfast table). Here's one exchange from several months ago:
Gary: Heavy
Colter: H-e-r-a-y
Gary: There's an "r"?
Colter: H-e-v-a-y... No wait. H-e-v-y. No. H-e-a-v-y.
What word do you have the most trouble spelling?
I hate spelling out loud. I need to write it down. I think hemorrhage always trips me up. I just spelled it hemmorhage and checked it in the medical dictionary and realized I spelled it wrong AGAIN!! It's a killer! I page doctors at my job and always screw it up before I check it with the dictionary.
Nancy's right about ophthalmology. People spell it op instead of oph.
Medical terminology is rough!
Posted by: Robin | May 13, 2004 at 07:54 PM
Good luck to him on the spelling bee!!! I'm sure he will do well. He may have just been distracted or something.
Posted by: Tiff | May 13, 2004 at 06:38 PM
Mediterranean. Always have to stop and think... two "t" or two "r"
Posted by: Terry | May 13, 2004 at 04:46 PM
I think every word is difficult for me. Spelling was always hard for me and it hasn't gotten any easier. ;) But using spell check has!!
Posted by: heather | May 13, 2004 at 04:25 PM
Banana, I think I got it right this time!!
Posted by: Nikki | May 13, 2004 at 03:24 PM
Spelling Bees can be heart wrenching...for the parents. - I constantly trip myself up on occured and those like it (which may or may not be spelled correctly here right now). I'll never forget amnesia since it was the word I got out on in my school Spelling Bee, even though I had specifically practiced it!
Posted by: AGK | May 13, 2004 at 12:53 PM
Most of the time it's not spelling that trips me up, it's typing. If you ask outloud to spell something I can. But ask me to type if and some of my fingers are just *way* faster then others. As a result 'project' always turns out as 'porject', etc.
Posted by: Helene | May 13, 2004 at 12:48 PM
most words with 'ie'. thief or theif? relieve or releive? ...
Posted by: wcoco | May 13, 2004 at 09:58 AM
VACUUM. Even though I "know" in my head that's how it's spelled, every time I write the word "vacuum" for some reason I want to spell it "vaCCum." :)
Posted by: Hope Wilbanks | May 13, 2004 at 09:25 AM
Definate? Definite?
Posted by: Amy | May 13, 2004 at 09:23 AM
psychology (or anything that starts with psyc) and ophthalmology
- can you tell I have a medical career?
Posted by: Nancy | May 13, 2004 at 07:38 AM