Originally Posted by
Peckish
Nuclear. New-clear, not nuke-u-ler.
I always have to look twice when spelling "separate". I get it wrong nearly every time.
Real-tor, NOT re-la-tor!!! Please, as a former one, it is worse than nails on a blackboard to me
!
Peggi, maybe the hint that "separate" is "apart" from something will help you remember that the word is se-
par-ate.
My personal bugaboo is the lie/lay, laid, lain group. Must have missed that week in grade school -- probably with severe poison ivy, which happened several springs in a row!
Jan in VA