HOW TO LEARN SPELLING.
A good way of learning to spell is to write any word of which you are in doubt, on a piece of waste paper, in two or three different ways. Nine times in ten, the mode which looks right is right. Spelling, particularly English sjrelling, is more assisted by the eye than by the memory. There is no reason why “receive” and “believe” should be spelled differently, yet sounded alike in their second syllables. But write them “recieve” and “beleive,” and the eye shows you the mistake at once. Such writing will frequently render unnecessary any recourse to the dictionary. Another good way to spell common but difficult words-— difficult for the above reason —is to associate them in the mind with appropriate objects. For example, one may teach oneself to spell “piece,” and to remember orthography by associating it with “pie”; thus: pic- ce or pie. An ingenious mind can devise a great many such illustrations.
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New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1919, Page 45
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161HOW TO LEARN SPELLING. New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1919, Page 45
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