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Yesterday Liam came home with his spelling words and one of them was favourite. He had written it down as favorite and I said to him that he had missed the u.
"I wrote down exactly what was on the board."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is my biggest pet peeve, Canadian teachers who can not spell words the Canadian way. Would it kill them to take .000001 seconds to add a u to the word? I shouldn't think that the little bit of added labour would harm them.
I asked Taylor's Grade 2 teacher (oh, so many years ago!) why they seemed to flip flop between o and ou. She said that a lot of their computer programs came from the States and therefore used only the o. My feeling is that when you are writing the words out on the whiteboard you should use the ou and point out that there are two spellings, but that in Canada we favour the ou version.
Seriously, is it that difficult?
11 January, 2007
It's an ou, not just an o
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That must be terribly confusing. Here in the UK we have American versions of word and it annoys the hell out of me when it tells me I have spelt words like colour and centre wrong and I'm like "no I haven't!"
I just noticed your expat badge - so do you come from the UK too?
I think it's just annoying to people like me.
I do, from Birmingham, but I moved here when I was v. young.
complain to your school board trustee. There is very little reason why Canadianised software can't be mandated, given the buying power Canadian school boards could and should exercise.
Completely agree! Plus, the software thing is bogus. Almost all of them have different "languages" available including British English and Canadian English.
Tell them to stop finding stupid excuses or move to the US.
My computer software is American and I get so annoyed with it when it points out errors which are in fact correct!
I love my "u". Love it, love it, love. I will make sure my daughter loves it too. Dumb ass teachers.
I had no idea that Canadians spelled those words differently. Now if I ever happen to teach those words I'll have to point out that Canadians spell them with the ou.
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