Lovely Gdcs’ spellings

My son was a prolific writer at infants school but obviously there was some inventive spelling involved.
There was a policy at the time to only correct three wrongly-spelled words per page: so sometimes the same word would be corrected, and sometimes it wouldn't be.

Not a grandchild but my eldest son now 60, An octopus has 8 testicles. His teacher was impressed at right spelling!

After seeing comments about the apprentice I was reminded of a colleague many years ago she spelt Wesley, Whesley on a handout for children. When I pointed it out she said it did not matter, She also made a collage of the Arctic with polar bears and penguins it was my job to correct her ,again she just shrugged just like the Apprentices.
She ended up an Advisor!!

DD's spelling was coming along nicely, then on the way to school patiently spelled out Broad Lane off the sign & came up with 'Brode Lane'. Almost seemed a shame to correct her.

cwiyet - brilliant!
Very logical.

I do remember a neighbour having an argument with her DD's class teacher because the DD's spellings had been corrected in a story she'd written.
However, the child's spellings were correct and the teacher's were wrong.

I needed my son’s teacher to explain to me what he meant by cwiyet as it wasn’t clear from the context.
She always praised the children’s stories and never marked anything wrong. The result was a class of 5 year olds who were all enthusiastic writers and in time their spelling improved.
(If you still haven’t worked it out the word was quiet ?.)

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!

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.

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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!).

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!

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”…..

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. ?

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 ?

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!

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.

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 ?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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