Showing posts with label spelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spelling. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 March 2012

Wake up Lloyds TSB!


I spotted this glaring mistake on a large advertisement for Lloyds TSB in the Tottenham Court Road underground. What other mistakes is this bank making, I wonder?

Thursday, 9 September 2010

Spelling #1


I used to have a copy of this poem by Frances Mackay on my classroom wall together with a longer piece about pronunciation that I will post later. I don't know if the children ever read it after the first time I pointed it out but it amused me.




No wonder I can't spell!

Learning the English language
Is not something at which I excel.
When so many words sound the same
It's no wonder that I can't spell!

Just look at the words that follow
And I'm sure that you will agree.
There's might and mite, and blue and blew
And flour and flower – do you see?

Which 'to' should I use in a sentence
When there's three different kinds to choose?
And three different 'so's and two different 'dough's;
Do you think it is done to confuse?

Well I think it is time that we changed it
To help other people like me.
Then I can stop worrying about spelling
Oh how wonderful that would be! (or is it bee?)