OPHTHAMALOGY has 2 H's !

[ALCapshaw2]

My S.O. pointed out that OPH-THAL-MOL-O-GY has TWO H's and is pronounced af-thal-mol-o-gy. It was news to me too!

No wonder my 'spell checker' underlined "opthalomology".

Live and Learn...

'AL'

 

[ALCapshaw2]

OPHTHALMOLOGY also has 2 L's

Will I ever learn to spell it correctly?

'AL'

 

[Marguerite53]

amazing

amazing

hm. I rarely make spelling mistakes! You must have had to go on an archaeological dig to find that one. (my son's 5th grade teacher and I got into it one day about dropping the silent a in archaelogy, his preference was to move along into modern times, drop the a and make it archeology. Oxford's calls the lack of the "a" a US variance and sends you to the real word, archaeology, for the definition.

Thank you ever so much for the correction note! I will ask Rossman to fix it for me through an edit.

Being a natural blonde, I've worked hard at this one small thing to never be wrong at!! (proper grammar still eludes me, apparently!)

Marguerite

 

[Marguerite53]

Mr. Rossman??

Mr. Rossman??

hi Ross. Can you fix that itty bitty spelling mistake for me in the thread called "Opthamologist identifies gray curtain....."? You probably will want to respell the title of this thread too, for Al. Maybe by the time we're all done with this, everyone will have had a good lesson in OPHTHALMOLOGY!!!

OMG I also misspelled gray!!! PLEASE change it to grey! E, E, E, is the color. Am I misspelling misspell????? no, Whew!

The correct title should read Ophthalmologist identifies grey curtain/floaties....

Thanks Ross. Like any of this matters, really, I know. If you have time. If you care. THANKS!!

Marguerite

 

[tobagotwo]

Me, too! Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary agrees with you and Microsoft, Al. I have been spelling it iggerently, as well...

You're all right on the gray/grey controversy, though, Marge. When I grew up, both spellings were in common use. Now, they refer to grey as the "British spelling" of the colour...

Best wishes,

 

[ALCapshaw2]

hm. I rarely make spelling mistakes! You must have had to go on an archaeological dig to find that one. SNIP

Marguerite

Actually, I first went to the Yellow Pages (under Physicians, Ophthalmalogy), then my dictionary.

'AL'

 

[hensylee]

I think I knew it has two h's but I didn't know it's not op but of.

I, too, am a stickler for good spelling and try hard not to get it wrong. The older I get, tho, the less important it is - after all, we read only the first and last letter most of the time anyhow. As pointed our by our dear Nancy some months back. She's right.

 

[Marguerite53]

this is a silly little thread!

this is a silly little thread!

Bob, funny you should mention the English version of the color. I decided to check my refrigerator for my little jar of Grey Poupon(thinking of the silly Rolls in the old commercial), but the mustard is from the Dijon area of France. So, is grey English or French, or both? Ha! I will now at least have a memory device to choose which way I spell grey in the future!

Ann, I do remember that very fun little item from Nancy about how we only need the first and last letter to recognize words in context. And yes, having turned 50 last december, I really am starting to feel a waning of importance of many things. Could be the heart condition knocking, too. So far, it has not affected my desire for proper spelling, mostly just the amount of tolerable dust on my dresser!

Al, funny about the yellow pages. I have sometimes grabbed that, too, as it is always more available than our dictionary!

Marguerite

 

[catwoman]

Al:

Don't worry -- ophthalmology is one of the most misspelled words I've come across in almost 30 years of newspaper copy editing. I wonder how many ophthalmologists can spell it correctly??????

At any rate, we ALL knew what you were referring to!

Another commonly misspelled word is -- believe it or not -- misspell. Most people leave out an S.

 

[Nancy]

Several years ago, when I ran a commercial Interior Design business, using the AutoCad program, I had an ophthalmologist as a client, a really nice guy. He actually sat down next to the computer and made sure that when I typed in the word, it was done correctly, because it would have been on each and every page of his large design file. Hopefully, I haven't forgotten that lesson from the "man" himself. Had to put a spell checker to work within AutoCad.

Gee, did I spell it correctly??? Guess what, first pass, I didn't get it right, too many "a's". How about "eye doctor".

 

[hensylee]

speaking of CAD, Nancy - we had the first version in sister's real estate office. Took me some time, but I mastered it and was SO proud. Then brother showed up one day with a new version. Knocked my socks off; I couldn't work it at all. Then I came to hate the dang thing.

 

[Nancy]

I LOVED AutoCad! It was my best friend. I could do everything with it and it took the place of three drafters. I had a huge plotter, and even learned how to make it produce artistic things, needlepoint designs, invitations, you name it. Best investment I ever made. I did enormous jobs all by myself. It's been a long time since I retired, but I kept the plotter until last year. It was a pen plotter, and they don't even use them anymore. It was like getting rid of an old friend.

I had the DOS based version, so you know how old that was. Did the huge drawings with only two 90 megabyte interconnected hard drives. I had all kinds of shortcuts to keep the drawing small byte-wise.

You're right, the upgrades which came every year were a major PAIN in the rear, and they had a lot of errors and bugs which had to be figured out.

So, I'm sitting here with this huge hard drive, and wondering how I could ever run out of space. I only use about a tenth of it. How did I ever manage with 180 megs?

 

[hensylee]

we got by because we had floppies. Probably would be easier in many ways if we still had them. It might be 'no bugs m'lady', huh?

 

[Nancy]

Still have about a bazillion floppies, all different sizes. Remember AutoCad's auto-save, which kicked in every 15 minutes or so so you wouldn't lose all the hard work you did? And then there was the Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) that was good for 45 mintes to an hour. That thing was always going off because of little low voltages which occur anyway. It had a battery the size of a car's. I called it R-2, D-2 because it had little green and red lights and was beeping all the time.

Sorry to interrupt the thread.