I have a friend who's going to college and she was working on a paper on her laptop at church while waiting on a child's activity to end. I walked by and she asked me how many qs there are in acquire.
Me: ???? Um, one. (Is there any word with more than one???)
Her: No, I tried that and it still says it's wrong.
Me: You know there's a c in there, too, right?
Her: Really?
Me: Yes, maybe that's the problem. Acqu.....
Her: Nope, still wrong. It must have more than one q.
Me: (Trying not to laugh) Let me look.
I walk over.......
Me: Oh! You need an i, too. A-c-q-u-i-r-e
Her: That's is! Wow, that really looks funny!
As opposed to acqquire? lol
Then I taught her the neat trick of right clicking on the underlined word to get suggestions of how to spell it correctly. :)
2 comments:
LOL! I admit I'm one of those walking dictionaries too, much to my husband's dismay :)
This is exactly why texting and facebook drive me nuts! I want to correct everyone and of course I can't! Great post!
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