Under The Spell

Have you ever noticed how some words just don’t look right when you see them in print? Even when you know that they’re spelt correctly?

For example, every morning when the alarm on my phone goes off, and I press the “Snooze” button, I am convinced that Samsung have spelt “Snooze” wrong… but it’s obviously right, because the spellchecker here hasn’t picked it up as wrong.

And the other one that comes to mind is “Glory”. “Glory” just doesn’t look right as a word.

Is it just me?

Ally 1, Boss & Flunky 0...

I had a moment of smugness and rare oneupwomanship on boss and flunky today... which I totally intend to take advantage of and remind them of as often as I possibly can...

Somehow or other we got on to the subject of spelling, and words that should be easy to spell, but aren't... and I said "I always have to be really careful with 'fluorescent', coz I keep getting my u and o the wrong way round" and boss said "Hah! It's easy... f - l - o - u - r... like flour"... and flunky scoffingly agreed... like how stupid was I to not know THAT...

I said "Eh!? No, it's not... It's f - l - u - o - r..." and they both laughed... replying, "No..." (at this point talking like they would to a six-year-old), "It's f - l - o - u - r... look, we'll get a delivery note or something and show you" (coz I was still arguing).

At that point, the phone rang, and I had to answer it... but I was vaguely aware of shuffling paper in the corner where the boss' desk is... and then both of them legged it out into the store, red-faced and looking decidedly sheepish... so, of course, I followed them... not about to let an opportunity like this pass me by... and they were both hiding!

So I just stood there and said "Apology accepted... I'm just going to wallow in this smug glow for a while longer, if that's okay with you two..."

Now, bear in mind that my boss has been a sparkie for just over 20 years... and he's only just realised that he spells "fluorescent" wrong!