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BabyBanana	Sep 11 2008, 10:39 PM Post #1
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 708 Joined: 13-June 04 From: UK Member No.: 1505	How do you spell "cordal".. or is that right. as opposed to contrapundal.. [or is that wrong too ? ] Thanks anyays. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Cyrilla	Sep 11 2008, 10:47 PM Post #2
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 11902 Joined: 9-November 03 From: Croydon, South London/Surrey Member No.: 99	Chordal. Contrapuntal. Anyway! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

BabyBanana	Sep 11 2008, 10:54 PM Post #3
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 708 Joined: 13-June 04 From: UK Member No.: 1505	QUOTE(Cyrilla @ Sep 11 2008, 11:47 PM) Chordal. Contrapuntal. Anyway! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Oh (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) . I was way off woth the chordal. Thanks a lot would of embrassed myself tomorrow giving a presentation. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Cyrilla	Sep 11 2008, 10:58 PM Post #4
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 11902 Joined: 9-November 03 From: Croydon, South London/Surrey Member No.: 99	No probs, glad to be able to help. Would 'embarrassed', 'with' and 'would have' be helpful, too? Very best of luck with the presentation! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/fingersCrossed.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

A.U.K	Sep 12 2008, 06:12 AM Post #5
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1629 Joined: 17-April 07 Member No.: 10759	Cyrilla you kill me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Knowing what a stickler you are (and quite rightly so) that peeps use the correct spellings can you help me out as well..I know how irritating it is when I spell something incorrectly.. and would appreciate you or anyone setting me straight. Ryhthym is that correct...I always have trouble with that.. Accompanist ???? Embouchure or Embochure Ta ever so ducks... Andrew

briantrumpet	Sep 12 2008, 06:25 AM Post #6
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 779 Joined: 24-June 07 From: Exeter Member No.: 12403	QUOTE(A.U.K @ Sep 12 2008, 07:12 AM) Cyrilla you kill me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Knowing what a stickler you are (and quite rightly so) that peeps use the correct spellings can you help me out as well..I know how irritating it is when I spell something incorrectly.. and would appreciate you or anyone setting me straight. Ryhthym is that correct...I always have trouble with that.. Accompanist ???? Embouchure or Embochure Ta ever so ducks... Andrew Cyrilla's not the only stickler round here.... rhythm - I remember this by saying it in 4/4 - rHy tHm, with the H in the middle of both groups embouchure - comes from the French for 'mouth' - la bouche accompanist - correct! (Have you noticed how many people say accompanyist?)

maggiemay	Sep 12 2008, 07:21 AM Post #7
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 18065 Joined: 12-January 04 From: S E England Member No.: 413	here's another --- Rhythm Helps Your Two Hips Move (credit to my school Head of Department for that one ) Have you noticed how many people say accompanyist? Yes ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) joins sticklers' club

HelenVJ	Sep 12 2008, 07:27 AM Post #8
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 947 Joined: 3-May 04 Member No.: 1265	Wow - people actually asking for spelling corrections! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I do hope someone will come on soon and ask for the correct spelling of 'definitely', the mis-spelling of which seems to be one of the more frequent solecisms on these boards. Off to sharpen some red pencils.

AnnC	Sep 12 2008, 07:31 AM Post #9
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2649 Joined: 8-February 06 Member No.: 6097	Diarrhoea is the difficult one! Luckily we musicians don't use that too often! Joins sticklers' club, too. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) QUOTE(HelenVJ @ Sep 12 2008, 08:27 AM) Wow - people actually asking for spelling corrections! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I do hope someone will come on soon and ask for the correct spelling of 'definitely', the mis-spelling of which seems to be one of the more frequent solecisms on these boards. Off to sharpen some red pencils. He he! I remember a teacher once writing at the end of one of my essays, "Watch your speling! (sic)".

Maizie	Sep 12 2008, 07:37 AM Post #10
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 4862 Joined: 5-February 07 From: Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire Member No.: 9360	QUOTE(A.U.K @ Sep 12 2008, 07:12 AM) Accompanist I rarely have to write the word, but if I do I always want to put an extra I in - accompianist. Because they play a piano, so there's "pian" in it. A logic-induced misspelling, but incorrect all the same! Phase instead of faze is the one I find ~~greats graits gr8ts grates~~ most bothersome (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

AmandaL	Sep 12 2008, 07:50 AM Post #11
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 3477 Joined: 18-November 03 From: Hampshire, England Member No.: 149	QUOTE(A.U.K @ Sep 12 2008, 07:12 AM) Cyrilla you kill me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Knowing what a stickler you are (and quite rightly so) that peeps use the correct spellings can you help me out as well..I know how irritating it is when I spell something incorrectly.. and would appreciate you or anyone setting me straight. Ryhthym is that correct...I always have trouble with that.. Accompanist ???? Embouchure or Embochure Ta ever so ducks... Andrew I'm in the sticklers club too. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I would rather be told straight if I've spelt a word wrong, or indeed used incorrect punctuation. That little book by Lynne Truss, 'Eats, shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation', comes to mind. A funny but also informative book it should be mandatory reading for school kids these days, few of whom seem to have any grip on punctuation whatsoever, let alone the use of capital letters or correct spelling............ (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

fsharpminor	Sep 12 2008, 08:21 AM Post #12
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 12234 Joined: 7-June 06 From: Wirral (originally Keighley, Yorks) Member No.: 7089	Yes I get qwite uppset wen I sea bad speling. Verbal dyarrear. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Cyrilla	Sep 12 2008, 08:51 AM Post #13
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 11902 Joined: 9-November 03 From: Croydon, South London/Surrey Member No.: 99	WOW! Feels a new club coming on A.U.K., I seem to have been beaten to answering your questions (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) ! Bagpuss did start up a 'Spelling Police' thread in the CafÃ© a little while ago - very humorous (naturally!) but it was removed without further ado.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) . I am DEFINITELY the founder of 'The Sticklers' Club' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) . Members so far: briantrumpet maggiemay HelenVJ (Red Pencils Monitor) AnnC AmandaL primrose Miss Ross skylark Edwardo Thank you, BabyBanana, for having made a lot of Old, Grumpy People Very Happy Indeed!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

AmandaL	Sep 12 2008, 08:53 AM Post #14
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 3477 Joined: 18-November 03 From: Hampshire, England Member No.: 149	QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Sep 12 2008, 09:21 AM) Yes I get qwite uppset wen I sea bad speling. Verbal dyarrear. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Proffetional as opposed to the correct spelling, professional, is one of the words that gets my goat on this forum. Grrrr! As a youngster I was told to never guess a spelling, let alone just write it down as it sounded and leave it at that! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) If I was uncertain I was to ask for help in looking the word up in a dictionary. I guess a problem in school these days is that some of the very young teachers haven't got a clue either - some of them are no more than five or six years older than the children they are teaching. It reminds me of the computer screen wallpaper I once saw, which mimicked a scrawled note saying: 'i kant tipe so i jus rite on th scren wif kraon.'

petrat	Sep 12 2008, 09:02 AM Post #15
Unregistered	Our machine has a built-in spellcheck and does some very strange things. I find that it changes I into i at the drop of a hat and have to go back over all of my replies to check for this before posting them. If i forget i have lots of editing to do.

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