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Lovely Gdcs’ spellings

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Witzend Fri 04-Feb-22 11:10:59

Gdd (6) had evidently got the hang of right, night, high, etc., because the other day she wrote, ‘This morning I had a frighd egg.’
Any more?

Sarnia Fri 04-Feb-22 11:17:57

Tricky language, English. Words like cough, though, bough and through. All end in the same 4 letters but sound different.

Luckygirl3 Fri 04-Feb-22 11:18:32

I have a card from my DD which I treasure. It said - in her best new joined-up writing: "A cuddle and a piss to my lovely Mummy." I am assuming she meant kiss smile

Shinamae Fri 04-Feb-22 11:19:05

Luckygirl3

I have a card from my DD which I treasure. It said - in her best new joined-up writing: "A cuddle and a piss to my lovely Mummy." I am assuming she meant kiss smile

????

Yammy Fri 04-Feb-22 11:32:29

My DD always sent cards to her Grandmar. Now I am getting cards from DG to my lovely Grandmar. A family trate passed on, unfortunately. She also tries to type and she got a lovely pair of willies the other week she meant wellies and the auto-correct had changed it. My other GD has taken to calling herself .......the great, unfortunately, she put her name last on the Christmas card and wrote grate.smile

Nortsat Fri 04-Feb-22 11:39:24

All lovely.
Luckygirl, I am still laughing ?

Soroptimum Fri 04-Feb-22 11:40:20

Middle son once typed the menu for Christmas lunch on his new typewriter. We were surprised to see that the starter was’Porn Cocktail’ ?

kittylester Fri 04-Feb-22 11:56:49

When our youngest was about 6, she left a note for DH saying, 'pleese pump up me bike tries'.

Witzend Fri 04-Feb-22 13:28:51

Love all these!
I still remember a letter my very young brother wrote to a neighbour for some reason I can’t remember.

One sentence went, ‘As you can see on the uper line on the third last wird I broce my pensl well hee hee hee hee hee hee…’

My mother was so tickled, she kept it - never gave it to the neighbour!

ginny Fri 04-Feb-22 13:41:58

Having been asked to write about her school uniform DD1 wrote that she was wearing , a skit and a shit.

midgey Fri 04-Feb-22 13:50:49

My dyslexic daughter still produces brilliant spellings! She is frequently tiered at the end of a long day!

Baggs Fri 04-Feb-22 14:19:16

When DD1 was five, shortly after we moved from Edinburgh to Oxford she wrote to her Scottish granny to tell her that it would be my 'brfdi the di afd the di afd tmorw."

I still label my ginger spice jar "jnj". That was hers too.

Witzend Fri 04-Feb-22 14:24:20

I love the ‘jnj’!
We once had a batch of home made strawberry jam labelled STROR by my brother of probably 5 at the time.

BlueSapphire Fri 04-Feb-22 14:38:35

I love the one I had in a Christmas card from one of my junior pupils.
She wtote, 'Dear Mrs Blue, thank you so much for happying me.'
I knew of course that she meant 'helping me.'

Aveline Fri 04-Feb-22 14:50:51

I'm looking at a note my DS wrote in P1. It says ' cum a long to the school meting at 1 oclok the safternoon to see ***'s werk'.
I don't know why I kept it but I did! PS he's 39 now and his spelling has improved. A bit.

ElaineI Fri 04-Feb-22 15:22:49

Watched Apprentice last night and the losing team made an online game about saving animals in the Arctic from global warming. They called it Artic Saviour - the 3 supposedly highly intelligent adult candidates did not notice the mistake until it was too late.

Soroptimum Fri 04-Feb-22 16:57:25

ElaineI

Watched Apprentice last night and the losing team made an online game about saving animals in the Arctic from global warming. They called it Artic Saviour - the 3 supposedly highly intelligent adult candidates did not notice the mistake until it was too late.

And they also made the mistake of thinking that penguins and polar bears live in the same place ?

Ali08 Sat 05-Feb-22 03:22:31

Years ago, my DS asked if we could watch that film again sometime? Well which one? He called it 'Steer Of Eeches' and it took me ages to work out the daft lad meant 'Stir Of Echoes' with Kevin Bacon.

Ali08 Sat 05-Feb-22 03:29:25

My next door neighbours children used to message me if they were awake/awoken during the night, instead of waking mum. They knew I'd be awake. One night I was in stitches at one of them saying 'I'm really sacred, can I come to yours?'
Of course I told her to wake her mum if she felt scared about something!

V3ra Sat 05-Feb-22 06:39:42

BlueSapphire

I love the one I had in a Christmas card from one of my junior pupils.
She wtote, 'Dear Mrs Blue, thank you so much for happying me.'
I knew of course that she meant 'helping me.'

I read this as that you'd made her feel happy ?

Witzend Sat 05-Feb-22 07:28:42

ElaineI

Watched Apprentice last night and the losing team made an online game about saving animals in the Arctic from global warming. They called it Artic Saviour - the 3 supposedly highly intelligent adult candidates did not notice the mistake until it was too late.

Wish I’d seen that - one in the eye for those who say nobody cares about spelling any more - as long as it makes sense, that’s all that counts. ?

Margsus Sat 05-Feb-22 07:28:53

Ali08

Years ago, my DS asked if we could watch that film again sometime? Well which one? He called it 'Steer Of Eeches' and it took me ages to work out the daft lad meant 'Stir Of Echoes' with Kevin Bacon.

When DS2 was a little boy, he asked to see his favourite film “A Fight With An Alligator” - it wasn’t until he found the video and showed it to us that we realised he meant “The Flight of the Navigator”…..

Luckygirl3 Sat 05-Feb-22 09:53:51

Playing I-spy with my little sister in our bedroom, I was completely stumped by something beginning with J.

I gave up. "Jressing gown" she triumphantly announced!

Callistemon21 Sat 05-Feb-22 10:23:09

Aveline

I'm looking at a note my DS wrote in P1. It says ' cum a long to the school meting at 1 oclok the safternoon to see ***'s werk'.
I don't know why I kept it but I did! PS he's 39 now and his spelling has improved. A bit.

?

At infant school we had to sit in double desks, girl next to a boy.

I remember (very bossily) getting cross with the boy sitting next to me, telling him that it wasn't 'the safternoon' but 'this afternoon'.
John was the one who taught me to swear, saying bloody wasn't swearing but bluddy was ?

My DGD made me a Mothering Sunday token at Sunday School when she was about 6 and insisted to her other Granny, who was helping, that she knew perfectly well how to spell my name. She didn't, a lovely version though (not disclosing it on here!).

Callistemon21 Sat 05-Feb-22 10:26:09

ElaineI

Watched Apprentice last night and the losing team made an online game about saving animals in the Arctic from global warming. They called it Artic Saviour - the 3 supposedly highly intelligent adult candidates did not notice the mistake until it was too late.

Oh yes, cringeworthy! It's doing the rounds on social media amongst young people too who obviously aren't such numpties as the Apprentices!