OK... "meteorological" is a difficult word to spell. It's one of those tricky words with a letter repeated in the middle ("o") that allows you to think you're further on in the word than you are when you're writing very slowly. That's how this happens! Rules when disaster strikes. 1. Don't panic. 2. If going for an attempted rescue, write the correct letter in place, then once everything's really dry, only the "wrong" strokes need removing. 3. Learn from your mistake. Anyway, this piece continued to grow (it's very large), but in the end other factors meant this version got abandoned - more on that in another blog entry, I feel. So the right thing to do was to rule up and start again. Surely I wouldn't make the same mistake again.....? Oh no - I managed to make it WORSE! I'll let you know how the sorting out of the mess goes....
(And tell you all the other tales of woe, and maybe even show you a finished piece!)
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Bridget Lloyd
18/2/2012 10:17:51 am
Glad I'm not the only one ! XX
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Meteorological would have given me a panic attack...and I would have spelt it thus: Meteororological. I might have cheated and might have written in in very light pencil and gone over it - although this doesn't always stop me from making mistakes, and I've also found that if a word trips me up then there is a very strong likelihood that it will trip me up again when I do a re-write.
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Janet
23/2/2012 01:38:47 am
I was 100% confident the second time that I knew how to spell it - that'll teach me! If I have to write it again (and it is possible, as the Shipping Forecast is one of my favourite topics) I shall employ every trick I can think of for spelling correctly.
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