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kodiak

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SarahM777 said:
Now for some useless trivia. :)

Faced with the next-to-impossible problem of spelling Mississippi, millions of people around the English-speaking world fall back on that venerable children's rhyme:
M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I
Crooked letter-crooked letter-I
humpback-humpback-I.​
Others recite:
Mrs M, Mrs I, Mrs Double S I,
Mrs Double S I, Mrs Double P I.​
Even then, thousands of folk don't know how to spell the word correctly. On the Internet, Google lists an amazing 208,000 pages misspelt as Mississipi (with one p).
The single-p advocates go back nearly three centuries, as an 1718 French map in the Library of Virginia is entitled Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi. Maybe that was the correct spelling in those days.
To spell the State's name correctly, remember these lines:
Four simple words will get you by:
What you'll never MISS IS SIP PI.

Easy to Say, Hard to Spell – Difficult Spelling

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lol, I never heard any of these songs before....I just learned to spell it through memorization.....
Is the s evil now...crooked :p
 
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cmarieh said:
So...I went to my doctor appointment and all went well. He wants to give it more time and see where I am at. He also wants me to be taking Serotonin and I am a little nervous about using it.
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please feel free to ask any questions and voice any concerns.
remember....he works for you. :)
 
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psychomom said:
please feel free to ask any questions and voice any concerns.
remember....he works for you. :)
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I know he said there is nothing to worry about, but I don't like taking anything. It was just a stretch to see him.
 
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kodiak said:
lol, I never heard any of these songs before....I just learned to spell it through memorization.....
Is the s evil now...crooked :p
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Of course it is the first letter of snake and serpent. (but it's only part time evil) :)

I have heard this one before (My mom taught it to us) :)

M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I
Crooked letter-crooked letter-I
humpback-humpback-I.
 
SarahM777

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psychomom said:
*frowns*

you know my two youngest have an ongoing joke about 'useless trivia with mom'?
that hurts, Sarah, it really hurts. :p

you made up for it, though, by giving me another language geek site.
cheers!
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Are you really good at trivial pursuit? :D
 
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psychomom said:
*frowns*

you know my two youngest have an ongoing joke about 'useless trivia with mom'?
that hurts, Sarah, it really hurts. :p

you made up for it, though, by giving me another language geek site.
cheers!
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lol, I am full of useless trivia too....some think I am insane....I have to agree with them :p
 
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SarahM777 said:
Of course it is the first letter of snake and serpent. (but it's only part time evil) :)

I have heard this one before (My mom taught it to us) :)

M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I
Crooked letter-crooked letter-I
humpback-humpback-I.
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My light bulb finally came on and now I get it. Sorry, it takes me a while to catch on, now I am a little embarrassed.
 
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kodiak said:
lol, I never heard any of these songs before....I just learned to spell it through memorization.....
Is the s evil now...crooked :p
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uh-oh, sheriff kody's 'bout to arrest the crooked s. ;)
 
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Hump and back-straight letter-crooked letter-crooked letter-straight letter-crooked letter-crooked letter-straight letter-humpback-humpback-straight letter. :)

That was a pain to write. Phew.
 
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psychomom said:
we'd have to hop in a time machine and go back to the eighties to know. :)
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For sure. I was lousy at the entertainment questions though. (I never could get the soap opera questions,never watched them,I didn't have to I lived in one) :p
 
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I have a childish rhyme! HeeHee...ohhhh stop me pleeeez..I'm so out of form this evening...ahem..
A...sailor went to see CC
To see if he could see CC
And a few threads he did see in CC
Is where he won't be seeing me me me!

Whew!

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Reborn said:
Hump and back-straight letter-crooked letter-crooked letter-straight letter-crooked letter-crooked letter-humpback-humpback-straight letter. :)

That was a pain to write. Phew.
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It would have been easier to write if you wrote it like this Mississippi. :D
 
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Reborn said:
Hump and back-straight letter-crooked letter-crooked letter-straight letter-crooked letter-crooked letter-humpback-humpback-straight letter. :)

That was a pain to write. Phew.
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As I was told as a kid, "no pain, no gain". I despised that saying and still do.
 
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I'm not American and I never had any trouble spelling the word 'Mississippi' (but being an Aussie, nor did I have any real use for the word - haha!). I learnt this one from TV or a movie or something when I was really little: "M, I, double-S, I, double-S, I, double-P, I." Easy.
 
kodiak

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cmarieh said:
As I was told as a kid, "no pain, no gain". I despised that saying and still do.
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Same here, but there is one phrase I dislike even more....."boys will be boys"...I heard it so many times as an excuse for bullying.
 
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Tintin said:
I'm not American and I never had any trouble spelling the word 'Mississippi' (but being an Aussie, nor did I have any real use for the word - haha!). I learnt this one from TV or a movie or something when I was really little: "M, I, double-S, I, double-S, I, double-P, I." Easy.
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but can you spell Ypsilanti?

(oh, sure, now you can!)
 
kodiak

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Tintin said:
I'm not American and I never had any trouble spelling the word 'Mississippi' (but being an Aussie, nor did I have any real use for the word - haha!). I learnt this one from TV or a movie or something when I was really little: "M, I, double-S, I, double-S, I, double-P, I." Easy.
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all of these would have made it more difficult for me....I prefer just straight memorization...
I never could do the planet saying....and I preferred soh cah toa to the alternative of Some old horse caught another horse taking oats away....
 
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