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#83597 10/19/02 01:49 PM
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Dear etaoin: I was aiming at my favorite "adversary" Faldage.He needs help to be good.
He thinks he is Godot. Just kidding, old buddy.


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no, eta, you have the spelling correct..i did try to look it up, but my dictionary was being most disagreeable, and the word was hiding.

i have always hated being told "look up the spelling in a dictionary" which, always has things in strict alphabetical order, and spelled correctly..

if i knew how to spell it, (ie the correct order of the letters) i wouldn't need to look it up..and if i don't know if it is i or e or maybe some silent letter stuck in there, or a double rr, or some other unexpected letter..how am i supposed to find it..

i have to make choices in my live.. or opt to do things.. or settle on something.. because i can never be sure if it deside or diside or dicide or decide, unless i have a really good spell checker at hand. i can't tell you how many times i have looked it up, but the pattern of letters has never established its self in my mind.

Aenigma is a dear, but useless!


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M-W's on line dictionary is excellent for the purpse of checking unsure spellings. If you're half way close it usually gives you the correct version in its first or second choice. Coriopsis returned the correct spelling as the first choice and corriapsis returned it as the second. Look up the word with a simple click and see if the definition matches.

http://m-w.com


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Can it give a correct spelling of "kapokita-pokita-pokita" ?


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Or "chitty-chitty bang-bang"?


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kapokita-pokita-pokita

Nothing given for this but

kapokita by itself gives copycat, copacetic, capita, capacity and, my favorite, cuckoopint.

Pokita gives picotee, pokiest, pocket, pockiest, picoted, pussycat, Pickett and piquet.

Chitty-chitty-bang-bang is left as an exercise for the interested student.


#83603 10/25/02 06:27 PM
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One of the spelling bee words new to me is "coryopsis"
caryopsis


A dry single- seeded indehiscent fruit that differs from an achene in that the fruit wall is fused to the
testa of the seed. It is the grain of cereals and grasses.



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