Spelling

[JamesM]

As some of you might have gathered, I do appear on the forum fairly frequently (...was that boooing I just heard?). Well, I was thinking the other day about the spelling of certain words that occasionally crop up when I am typing, be it a technical term, object or constellation. Now call me dim (...settle down everyone!) but there are some words that I always have to remind myself how to spell no matter how many times I have typed them out. One frequent example is ........um......now let me see......hang on....I have got it.....Cassiopeia! Every time I need to write it I have to look it up, I mean how ridiculous is that! Well to be honest, I cheat and in fact I already have it on a sticky stuck to the side of my computer screen.

Now hopefully I'm not alone in this memory incapacity so, does anyone else have an astronomy word that always creates that little bit of doubt?

James

[John]

I have difficulty with the Seven Sisters .......... AKA the Pleiades - it's the P word that gives me the problems

Perhaps I'll just stick to calling the cluster Messier 45 from now on !

[Nexus 6]

pliadees guys always gets me

[Nexus 6]

also Albireo, think that's the correct pronunciation

[saturn4me]

Mooon gets me everytime!!

[damnut]

My chemistry master used to say 'your handwriting is not like a spider dipped in ink but in scotch first!'.. Word processors and spell checkers marvellous things...

Cheers

ps.

When he retired they had to get Porton Down staff to come and clear out his stock room, something to do with exotic isotopes :-)!

[LukeSkywatcher]

I always type Cassie, Seven Sisters. Those are about the only ones i can think of right now.

Oh yeah and................i type Beehive Cluster (or M44) instead of Praesepe.

[Dann]

I'm the same with Pleiades, I had to look it up again just now.

[pkrallis]

Spell check is a wonderful too. Is it hidden somewhere here? If not then use Note Pad or Word Pad to generate your message and paste it in.

peter...

[LukeSkywatcher]

It doesnt matter really. I think we all know what people mean when they spell astronomical things incorrectly.

[dweller25]

I definatley don't need to use a spell checker

[661-pete]

Star names offer a rich haul of spelling traps: I defy anyone to get - say - Dschubba - right without looking it up!* Or to pronounce it!

*Yep. I looked it up . Aka Delta Scorpii. I think I'll stick with the Bayer name, thanks, for that one!

[steelfixer]

i don't know about star names I have a job remembering how to spell my own name sometimes.

Demensia setting in I think.

[Gunnar]

Ouch I have some small problems to all of them! I whish I could spell like an englishmen.

And once gain splendid for my spelling.

[Alan_B]

Pleiades - (copy & pasted so if i got it wrong again blame Dann)

[angusb1]

Focusser or focuser? Focuser I think

[garethmob]

lol m45 is one major one, i guess alot of it is my dexylexic (yes i know i spelt it wrong:P its what i call it as a joke) i find i spell alot of the words how they get prounounce, like cassiopia, or the paledies....

[yeti monster]

Going off the general state of spelling and grammer in some posts, I Hardley (see Hawg thread) think it matters anymore....

[Pavel]

Zubenelgenubi (α Librae) - more often than not I lost my tongue.

[glowjet]

OK all you experienced chaps apart from spelling, how the H..l do you pronounce the Greek letter Xi, its shaped like Zeta but with an extra squiggle

John.

[wrinkly]

Mye Mca spoll Chukka iss exerlent.

[661-pete]

OK all you experienced chaps apart from spelling, how the H..l do you pronounce the Greek letter Xi, its shaped like Zeta but with an extra squiggle

John.

Ha! I have the advantage of you 'cos I did Greek (ancient Greek that is) at skule as any fule kno.

It's "Ksy": say "sky" but with the K and S swapped over.

[maej]

I find google a really useful tool. However badly I spell something in the search box, it always seems to say "did you mean..." which gives me the right spelling, or at least the majority spelling.

Spell check is a wonderful too. Is it hidden somewhere here? If not then use Note Pad or Word Pad to generate your message and paste it in.

peter...

[Charon]

Mooon gets me everytime!!

Same here:)

[glowjet]

Thanks Pete, but as the saying goes, its all Greek to me

John.