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I was in my 30's when I did my GCSE, I am 100% certain that as a child that when we were taught to spell words by sounding them and thats what I went through life doing just that :) 9 times out of 10 I get the right letters and sounds mostly in the wrong order. I used to bring home my spelling book as 35 yr old covering the words up learning them used to keep my children highly amused. Another trait is leaving words out of written sentences and speaking in my local dialect. :-D ooooooooo and I hate text speak

My sister (5 years younger than I am) was taught to read using the Initial Teaching Alphabet system when she first went to school, then they had to learn the "proper" way, and I feel that this caused more problems in having to learn one system and then another.

Anyone else taught using ita?

I had the same experience as Karen, but with my French vocab tests. Each week I went to ballroom dancing the evening before the test. Never bothered to even look at the words. Managed five or six out of twenty if I was lucky.

Became tired of others thinking I was a sandwich short of a cut lunch. Took my vocab book to dancing and in between dances learned the words. Of course the other kids thought I was potty. The teacher nearly fell off her chair when she asked how many I had correct one morning. I was able to yell out 18 out of twenty.

Funny what things stick in your mind from so many years ago!!

I believe you can spell words ending "es" as "ez" if you add a "d" eg - "organized".
I still use "similar to" and "different from" although it does not seem to matter these days.
Liz

And the one which says, "never end a sentence with a preposition". I only discovered the other day that modern language conventions allow a preposition to the end of a sentence.

The children liked the playground they were going to.

The children liked the playground to which they were going.

When I think of the number of times I have retyped a sentence so it did not end with one of those little words.

Aunty, how would you rearrange the following sentence: What did you choose that book to be read to from for?

That is one my oldest sister told me about when I was much younger and I have puzzled over it ever since.

I agree with the dyslexic fingers. I am a touch typist and I think one of my hands must type faster than the other as I often have to go back to correct words that have had a couple of letters transposed. Like: adn and fro.

Huia who frequently has to 'bite her tongue' when reading threads.

I was taught forty and ninety. Also I, as in me, a capitol I

HuiaAllYear, Hi, that phrase about reading books is quite famous and if my ancient memory serves me correctly, has been previously debated on this site.

I think it has something to do with constructing a sentence ending with the most number of prepositions.

If I were to write that sentence I would probably phrase it:

Why did you chose that book to be read to you?

For what reason did you chose that book?

Both mean exactly the same as the original sentence but are not worded so clumsily.

You may of course put in one comma and take a breath before the word for. It almost sounds correct.

What did you choose that book to be read to from, for?

Ha, little finger left hand. The finger most likely to cause me to miss a capitalization or a letter when typing. And yes I touch type. Which reminds me....... I live like I type, fast with lots of mistakes!!!