More fun with spelling

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on November 28, 2007 - 10:40am.
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It looks like Beverly Perdue is not the only one who might lose a spelling bee.

The Scholar's Council of the University of North Carolina's UNC Tomorrow Commission put out a report on economic and workforce trends. Its subtitle:

"Implications for our State and the Unversity of North Carolina."

Unversity, eh? Is that like the Uncola?

Full Disclosure: Dome has lost spelling bees on the words soliloquy, kyphosis and accommodating.

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Re: More fun with spelling

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on November 28, 2007 - 11:48am.

My coworker said that I should remember that the word is "accommodating" enough to include two c's and two m's.

I think the best mnemonic is simply to misspell the word in front of an audience of your friends and neighbors. 

— RTB 

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Re: More fun with spelling

Submitted by JohnHood on November 28, 2007 - 11:42am.

Ryan,

My favorite professor at the UNC J-School, Phil Meyer, counseled his students to remember the proper spelling of "accommodate" with the following mnemonic device: Charlie Chaplin takes Marilyn Monroe on a date.

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