How's Your Spelling?

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    My old pal Newton and I used to discuss approximation theory all the time :old: :roflol:
     
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      I have started thinking, have I got to add a comma...or....This has not really done any good at all, although people have all meant well.
      My view has mounted more because often when I type an e it jumps to another letter and sometimes a whole line moves..it's done it 4 times during typing this....
       
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        While avoiding apples raining down on you :biggrin:
         
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          That's why I've just pruned all my apple trees :thumbsup:
           
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            You need to talk strictly to it :paladin:

            Words can be very unruly and wayward. As Humpty Dumpty said:-

            “They've a temper, some of them — particularly verbs: they're the proudest — adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs — however, I can manage the whole lot of them!"
             
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              A poem by the beautiful Benjamin Zephaniah
              Nature Trail


              At the bottom of my garden
              There’s a hedgehog and a frog
              And a lot of creepy—crawlies
              Living underneath a log,
              There’s a baby daddy long legs
              And an easy—going snail
              And a family of woodlice,
              All are on my nature trail.

              There are caterpillars waiting
              For their time to come to fly,
              There are worms turning the earth over
              As ladybirds fly by,
              Birds will visit, cats will visit
              But they always chose their time
              And I’ve even seen a fox visit
              This wild garden of mine.

              Squirrels come to nick my nuts
              And busy bees come buzzing
              And when the night time comes
              Sometimes some dragonflies come humming,
              My garden mice are very shy
              And I’ve seen bats that growl
              And in my garden I have seen
              A very wise old owl.

              My garden is a lively place
              There’s always something happening,
              There’s this constant search for food
              And then there’s all that flowering,
              When you have a garden
              You will never be alone
              And I believe we all deserve
              A garden of our own.
               
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                I'm very good at spelling, but when it comes to typing on a keyboard with three different words that come up at the top, have to check that it's the right one that i post. I have posted sometimes without checking if I've typed the right one.
                I use my phone to join in with GC and at one stage Samsung had done a update on the keyboard, then it didn't work properly so hubby changed it to google keyboard and it's better, he has his uses.:heehee:

                The thing about sentences how long or short do you make them? Can't start with an and.
                 
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                  Awwww....:wub2::imphrt:...that is so beautiful Dianne.
                   
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                    My spelling is good too....it's the ****** predictive text that I have trouble with.!!
                    It seems to have mind of it's own....even when disabled, it weirdly comes back on somehow to haunt me!!!:yikes:
                     
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                      Precisely. When I got my first smartphone I was signing a text (like older people do) and for some reason the phone decided I'm called Large. I kind of like that, it has a Chinese organised crime feel to it :biggrin:
                       
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                          Or end with them. :roflol:
                           
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                            We had better tell god then :heehee:

                            ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
                            And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
                            And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
                            And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
                            And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
                            And the evening and the morning were the first day.’
                            Genesis, Chapter 1, The Bible, King James version
                             
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                              Would it be reasonable to suggest that William Tyndale wrote those sentences with his interpretation ?!
                               
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                                Quite possibly - or his printer!
                                 
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