5 spelling rules (and exceptions) to improve your English

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12/15 the one that I lost opener, niece and weird. But I'm still learning more thank you Lucy you are the best teacher tutor in YouTube.

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Hello Lucy I found the third question a bit hard because I didn't get the rule for this one

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Lucy, I just had to come back to this video and ask you this, because I saw something about English spelling that surprised me and caught my attention.

I'm Dutch and love not just playing board games, but also talking and watching videos. I think I was taught English by my teacher very well in the past, because he not only sounded very British, but had also something British in his personality. I don't know exactly what that was, but he somehow had the same kind of gentlemen-like and old fashioned joking 'class' I always associated with the somewhat older generation of British people.

I could blame the lecture books we used at our school when I was a teenager (I'm 46 now), and perhaps the way the word was spelled has been changed in the meantime, but I came across the word 'supper' as part of a title of a board game and its related video. I was a bit surprised by this spelling, because I actually thought that this word was spelled 'souper' and the same way as in (Old) French, at least in British English because of the language's strong connection with French. I did think it was supposed to be spelled 'souper' in US English as well (I say US, because I know Canadian English use British spelling with many words as well), but in that variation of English this kind of spelling is unusual.

Well, long story short: By reading these lecture books and other English text, I was always convinced that the correct spelling should be 'souper', and that 'supper' was either a more informal, but still correct spelling method, or just incorrect (at least for British English). What exactly is the officially correct way to spell this word? And how is it possible that this seems to appear in different ways in books, in particular lecture books?

I have to note that I think these lecture books were probably Dutch sources (the lecture method's material was called 'Catching On'), because the textbooks were (almost) entirely in English, but the explanations of exercises in the workbooks were in Dutch, because we weren't taught about terms like verbs, nouns, articles, etc. in English back then). I can't remember my teacher correcting me there once, which says a lot because he was very precise, strict and accurate on these things. He was a very good teacher. I don't remember anyone ever telling me that their teacher put so much attention and effort into teaching the pronunciations of difthongs/non-monotone vowel sounds, nor did I ever hear another English teacher in the Netherlands put so much detail into it. The compliments I received from native speakers for my ponunciations of the biggest part of (British) English are all achievements thanks to him. Once he told me that he went to England at least once every year, and that the people there talking with him actually thought he was both a native speaker and British himself.

There are a few other differences between British and American (US) English spelling you didn't mention and that I would like to learn more about, which are the suffixes '-ence' and '-ense'. I know that in British English the spelling of words with these is almost always 'ence', except perhaps when the emphasis it put on the suffix itself, which also causes the first 'e' to be pronounced as a shorter 'è' sound instead of as an 'ə'. In US English, it is a little less clear, and allthough this rule seems to apply there as well, there appear to be differences between the two variations. It looks like there are exceptions to the second case in particular (take 'defence' vs 'defense', for example).
And then there is also the issue I have with when to use suffixes like either '-ent' or '-ant', as well as either '-ence' or '-ance' (in all cases mostly with an R or L before them).
And finally, you mentioned dropping an L in words like 'skilful' in British English. I admit that I tend to still use a doubled L there, while I also tend to use a single L in words like 'cancelled', because North American English dominates the internet. However, would an S also be dropped in British English, like for example with the addition of the '-ful' suffix to words like 'success' as well? I know the S is doubled in US English, but I'm no longer sure about how it should be in British English. Also, dropping an L at the end of the suffix itself from such words always seemed weird to me, because the suffix is 'based' on 'full (of)'.

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Why are height and weight pronounced differently when both have the same spelling? What rules pertain here?

12/15

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What about the word play consonant + vowel + cosonent but we dont double y

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Hello Lucy,

I got 15/15. I must be honest though and admit that I am a native English speaker.

I am now a pensioner, but I taught English language to students in Italy for about 40 years.

This video would have been really helpful to me as a kid back in London because I was a bad speller. I can say that now that I am retired.

However, having said that, before I send an e-mail, I get it checked by ChatGPT.

There are still some words where I have to stop and think, though.

SINCE is spelt with a “C”, but SENSE is spelt with an “S”. I sometimes mess this up and write something like:

“Dogs have a great sence of smell.”


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15/15 thank you soo much

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13/15 because when i paused, there were the answers, but i know ladies already