An excerpt from a conversation at work on an afternoon:
Spelling struggler 1: What is the spelling of neighbour? Neighbour or neighbor?
Spelling struggler 2: Neighbour is British English and neighbor is American.
Spelling struggler 3: This happened to me yesterday. I was trying to type 'beaurocratic' no
beurocratic, no boreaucratic, no? Ok, red tape!
Spelling struggler 1: Let's get to the online dictionary and spell beauro- whatever...
Spelling struggler 2: Impossible! It says bureaucratic.
Struggler 3: If its boo- reou - cratic, why is it pronounced as beau- ro- cra-tic?
Spelling struggler 1: This happens to me with 'believe'. For a long time I spelt it as 'beleive'.
Spelling struggler 2: I can never write 'encyclopedia'.
Spelling struggler 1: I always spell sandwich as sandwitch.
Spelling struggler 3: I spell sandwich as sandwicth, if that makes you feel better.
Spelling struggler 2: This happens with one more word! I forgot...something to do with the army!
Spelling struggler 4: Leftinant (lieutenant)!
Spelling struggler 1, 2, 3: Now how the hell do we spell that?
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