Thursday, December 17, 2020

Don’t botch your spelling!

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Typos in visual aids for a speech can occur easily. Even one wrong letter will change the meaning of a word, as is shown above where botch could become batch, bitch, or butch. The vowels U, I, and O are right next to each other on a keyboard.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other examples where just changing a vowel will produce one of either three or four words are shown above. There even is a 2015 book by Kalman Toth titled 8100 One Letter Different Word Pairs: Nurture Your IQ.

 

Homophones are another spelling problem. Today’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip has Larry the Crocodile starting a new venture offering the world his opinions. At first his sign says Larry Nose, but then Zebra corrects him, and he fixes it to say Larry Knows.  

 


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