Texture Tuesday | Confessions of a Horrible Speller

I have vivid memories of practicing my spelling words as a child in elementary school.  I can remember hating spelling and questions why words weren’t spelled how they sounded.  Regardless of the countless hours that my mama made me practice those dreadful spelling words, I still am a horrible speller.  While I was teaching, I used this to my advantage, because I would use my weakness as an example for my students.  Use it as an opportunity to show them how to use a dictionary or how a weakness doesn’t mean you aren’t smart or capable!  But now, now that I am not teaching a group of kindergarten through third graders, and the majority of my readers are grownups that have learned to spell successfully, I feel more self conscious about this weakness.

 (Already, my spell check has autocorrected, advantage, opportunity, kindergarten, and conscious)

 

Publicly, I am putting my thoughts out into the world, my weaknesses, and fearing that I am being scrutinized (another spell checked word!) by my readers.  If putting my pictures, my work, my art, my passion out there on the world wide web wasn’t hard enough, I also put my words. So here is my confession.  I know that I am a bad speller.

(I didn’t even see the misstake at first in this! Did you?)

I have several of my “people” on blog standby to let me know if I have a spelling error after I publish. They are like my editors.  It’s not that I don’t proof read my blogs.  It is the complete opposite!! I will read one of my blogs, at least, 7 times before I hit publish.  Knowing my weakness, I tend to overcompensate (I got that one right!). The worst is when spell check doesn’t even recognize what I am trying to spell! So frustrating, that I just keep sounding it out, trying to spell it either until google figures out what I need to spell. Or I will change my sentence completely so that I can use a different word.  Aggg! So frustrating.

So as apart of this Texture Tuesday, I am putting out a small confession.  One of the many, many weaknesses that I have, that I embrace, that I am okay with.  Just don’t judge 😉 I won’t appreciate that much!

 

index of commonly misspelled words in my world:

restaurant 

inconvenience 

accommodate

massage

conscience

license

alcohol

referred

reference

schedule

vacuum

scissors 

just to name a few!!! 

I hope everyone has a fabulous Tuesday!