hi everybody and welcome back to love English today I've got a simple yet very
useful lesson for you all about 10 very common spelling mistakes that you really
shouldn't be making now English is a horrible language to spell because it
isn't a phonetic language so the way the word sounds is not how the word will be
spelt in most cases now I make a lot of these spelling mistakes myself so I do
really understand where you guys are coming from so in this lesson I'm going
to give you some of my tips and some of the ways that I've tried to remember
some of these tricky words to spell
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well ok let's get started number one number one is occasionally
occasionally now remember occasionally is 2 C's 1 s 2
C's 1 s it's very easy to get them confused I do this all the time I put
them the wrong way around 2 C's 1 s 2 C s 1 s 2 C's 1 s occasionally and of
course don't forget that double L at the end as well
number 2 is the other way round necessary is actually 1 C and two S's
it's very easy to confuse these and put them the other way round and put two
cs and 1s but it isn't it's one C two S's so think about it like this guy's
only one C is necessary in necessary okay number three is definite definite I
used to spell this word wrong all the time when I was younger and I had to
learn to remember it as def fine night so that was the way phonetically I
remembered that there was actually two eyes because I wanted to put a set the
second i I wanted to have that as an E because it sounds like it definite okay
but it's definite so definite number four is February difficult words to
pronounce and a difficult word to spell February the month we're in now actually
so in February you need an R after the b February
actually if we were going to say it how it is spelt February but of
course guys you must remember that the pronunciation is February we don't
pronounce that are and that is why the spelling is so confusing but there are
two R's in February try to remember it like this guys February is a romantic
month it's the month of Valentine's Day and February needs two r s and
romantic of course it starts with an r number 5 is accommodation if I had
a pound for every time I've seen this word misspelt I would be a very rich
lady accommodation although it's a long word and there's double letters it's
actually easier than necessary or occasionally because both the letters
are double so CC double m accommodation CC double m and of course accommodate is
the same double m double c number six is alcohol alcohol and actually for a
change this one is actually quite phonetic alcohol it really is spelt
like how it sounds but don't start putting k's or double ls or anything
like that it is exactly how it sounds Alco hol number seven initiate and
initiative this is my nightmare word to spell I've always found this one really
difficult just remember with initiate there are three i s three i s and with
initiative there are four of course adding on that extra 'ive' gives you
another i so three i s in initiate and for an initiative with these guys I
would just listen to it initiate and you can hear at least the first two i s in
that word okay so hopefully that will help you remember three i s in initiate
number eight is receive and I'm also going to add in here receipt as you can
apply the same rule and I've seen the same mistake made with both these words
okay so with receive you can use the useful rule I before E except after C I
before E except after C however this rule does have some exceptions and I
will provide a link below to give you more details about that but in this case
we can use the rule so of course the e goes before the I as we have a C and it
is received and the same goes for receipt as well number nine is
conscience conscience the best way I've learnt to remember it is con science so
the word con the spelling of science putting those
two together of course the pronunciation is conscience but that doesn't help you
very much to spell it remember how to spell it by thinking of con Science
okay number 10 these are homophones so it's sometimes
really difficult to remember which spelling is for which meaning they are
stationary and stationary stationary is in still is in not moving like the
vehicle is stationary or stationary is in pens paper pads things that we use
was studying normally okay so stationary is in still is with a ry ending and
stationery as in pens and paper and things like that is e ry ending okay so
hopefully you'll remember that guys ery pens and paper ary if you're still do
share in the comments box below guys any tips or any ideas that you have about
how to remember some of these trickier Spelling's right guys thank you so much
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