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Leaving Cert English Spelling!

Wardy92 · 2010-01-27 20:53:00

Just wondering if it matters if the american spelling for words is used. Or is it counted as a mis-spelled word??

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27-01-2010 9:53pm

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Wardy92

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Just wondering if it matters if the american spelling for words is used. Or is it counted as a mis-spelled word??

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#2 27-01-2010 9:56pm
Jay P

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Considering this is Ireland, and we use Irish/British spellings, American words wouldn't be acceptable.
Or so I'd imagine.

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#3 27-01-2010 10:29pm
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American spellings are considered errors.

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#4 28-01-2010 6:57pm
pfannkuchen

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Except if quoting from poems with American spellings, for example, Eliot's "Prufrock" - "like a patient etherized upon a table" or something like that.

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