“My spelling skills are a perpetual work in progress,” admits Kelly in Calgary. “When I told my sticky-note-happy coworker about my most recent spelling mistake caught by my boss, she decided to take action.”
related: A personal pet peive
“My spelling skills are a perpetual work in progress,” admits Kelly in Calgary. “When I told my sticky-note-happy coworker about my most recent spelling mistake caught by my boss, she decided to take action.”
related: A personal pet peive
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#1
weed store
dude you know what that dude just needs to chill
Aug 14, 2013 at 12:42 am rating: 90
#2
Miff
I spell it yield, you spell it yeild, let’s call the whole thing off!
Aug 14, 2013 at 1:23 am rating: 90
#3
Elle
I’m not gonna lie, the “yeild” in the title of the post makes me twitch like crazy.
Aug 14, 2013 at 2:25 am rating: 90
#4
Lindsay
the ‘i before e’ rule isn’t always true anyway.
Weird!
Aug 14, 2013 at 3:43 am rating: 90
#5
Poltergeist
YEILD! In the naaame of looooove
Before you break my heaaaart
Aug 14, 2013 at 5:11 am rating: 90
#6
Bob Roberts
Does the friend know that it’s “blah” and not “bla?”
Aug 14, 2013 at 5:55 am rating: 90
#7
CG
Maybe the coworker should be working instead of wasting time and office supplies on this joke.
Aug 14, 2013 at 6:25 am rating: 90
#8
Tard
Wierd.
… that should bring out the Spelling Nazis!
Aug 14, 2013 at 7:03 am rating: 90
#9
H for Toy
I hope in all this I before E nonsense, Richard isn’t forgotten. Kelly, don’t forget to message Richard!
Aug 14, 2013 at 7:28 am rating: 90
#10
jUstPunkin
I can see some of my coworkers doing the same thing to me, especially since I am the one they come to with spelling questions. I actually think it’s kind of funny, and had I walked into that on my desk, I would have laughed for a while, and then planned my fun payback.
Aug 14, 2013 at 7:35 am rating: 90
#11
Fireseeker
I totally thought that yield sign was a drawing of a martini glass at first
Aug 14, 2013 at 11:14 am rating: 90
#12
sara
I think the overall atmosphere of the offi e and your relationship w the coworker are factors asto whetherthis would be appropriste or not…..but i thought this was hilarious and cute
Aug 14, 2013 at 11:22 am rating: 90
#13
FatMan
How were the suggestions recieved?
Aug 14, 2013 at 11:31 am rating: 90
#14
Neeners
I just got dizzy, for a minute I thought I was on the freeway looking at all those yield signs and then got confused like in school with all the rigmarole about grammatical correction. PTSD starting to kick in.
Aug 14, 2013 at 11:46 am rating: 90
#15
Pierrette Carriere
i before e except after c – WEIRD
Aug 14, 2013 at 12:15 pm rating: 90
#16
Belle
One of my co-workers has to be reminded constantly of the ‘i before e’ rule and he makes an effort to comply. Unfortunately he can’t seem to understand that it doesn’t apply to certain words like ‘their’.
Aug 14, 2013 at 12:16 pm rating: 90
#17
GrammarDiva
Hey Kelly, give her this page!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17704386/The-Complete-I-Before-E-Rule-With-Explanations
Aug 14, 2013 at 12:26 pm rating: 90
#18
bob loblaw
Could be worse. You could live in Calgary ………
Aug 14, 2013 at 1:03 pm rating: 90
#19
Red Delicious
This is why I have extracted myself from the hell that is the office.
Never again do I want to submit myself to the agony of such psychosis and unfathomable stupidity.
Self-employment for the biggest win ever.
Aug 14, 2013 at 2:17 pm rating: 90
#20
juniper
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble but not you,
On hiccough, through, lough and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead–it’s said like bed, not bead.
For goodness’s sake, don’t call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat:
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there’s dose and rose and lose–
Just look them up–and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart.
Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I’d mastered it when I was five.
-T.S. Watt
Aug 14, 2013 at 3:31 pm rating: 90
#21
nodo
Learn to spell and put an end to this.
Aug 14, 2013 at 4:03 pm rating: 90
#22
Rach
What I don’t understand is why people don’t turn on and use spell check? It really works!
Aug 14, 2013 at 8:33 pm rating: 90
#23
Steve
Ima just leave this right here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_words_not_following_the_I_before_E_except_after_C_rule
Aug 14, 2013 at 9:42 pm rating: 90
#24
Raichu
haha…that seems pretty obnoxious.
Aug 15, 2013 at 11:51 am rating: 90
#25
Jon Bon Wonton
“I before E, except after C”
Yeah, like “science!”
Aug 23, 2013 at 12:09 pm rating: 90
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