Phantomoftheopera98 wrote:I think 'little kids' are the ones in most need of learning spelling and grammar. I am at a university institution, and someone in my ENGLISH CURRICULUM class was writing on the whiteboard saying "coz" "sum1", e.t.c. The funny thing was that when she came to spelling 'real' words, she was incorrect.
Personally, even spelling things like 'bus, and 'phone without the ' is distressing. These words are all short for things- OMNIbus, TELEphone, AEROplane e.t.c. It's quite incorrect to spell these or any other similar words without a '.
I never really thought about spelling those words with the apostrophe before. I guess it depends on the way one was taught. I knew the words' longer forms, but I always saw the short form as a separate word.
*feels enlightened*
Well, this is quite the helpful thread. XD