The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-12-04, Page 10Facts NI Fancies
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Mr, & Mrs. Bruce Lee
Couple recently wed
reside in Willowdale
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During the inquisition the
editor held before hiring me he
asked me many pertinent
questions. He did not however,
inquire if I could spell.
I suppose he just naturally felt
that anyone applying for the
position of writer would have
acquired this skill.
Well, let this be a lesson to
him . you can't take anything
for granted these days.
I am a rotten speller.
Never have I been able to get
the hang of choosing between
practise and practice, principal
and principle and a covey of
other similar words.
I've never been handy either
in deciding whether some words
end with ence or ance, with ible
or able.
This is just to mention a few
things about spelling that have
frustrated me my lifetime
through.
I felt a little guilty about not
confessing this sin to my boss so
I confessed it to one of my
teacher friends instead.
"Why is it," I implored, "that
some people can spell with such
alacity and accurateness words
like "Perpisichorean' an d others
like I can't get by words with
more than five letters?"
. The teacher explained that it
was due to how sharp a person's
visual memory is.
"This capacity to retain what
you see," she assured me, "can
be improved by practising (or is
it practicing?) certain simple
memory exercises."
With this she presented me
with a book called, "20 Days to
Better Spelling."
"Hurray," I shouted. "This is
a god-send.."
I was sure I could bluff my
way through the job for 20 days
with the help of three
dictionaries, two thesaurus and a
set of World Book encyclopedia.
Well, the 20 days is up.
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And I'm very disappointed.
It's true the book is filled
with little tricks on how to
sharpen your spelling skills. The
whole theory is to remember
things that will help you recall
how special words are spelt.
But if you can't remember
bow the words are spelt in the
first place how can you
remember anything else?
For example, the book says
"to remember that embarrassed
is spelt with two r's and two s's
you first have to remember the
following piece of data: Two
robbers were embarrassed in
Sing Sing."
Now with my kind of
memory I would very likely
recall that,'" One thief was
disconcerted in Kingston," and
spend the whole day figuring out
what word I started out to spell
in the first place. The
troublesome decision of when to
use ie or ei has bothered me
since I first picked up a pencil.
Of course, there's that rule to
use `i' before `e' except after 'c',
or when it sounds like `a' as in
neighbor or weight. But then
there are the exceptions like
either, leisure, weird and inveigle
to mention only a few.
Tell me, pray, who would be
inveigled into putting their trust
in a rule like that? It's about as
dependable as a snow storm in
July and about as easy to see
through.
However, this 20 Day book
insists that if you will put your
trust in it, this ie, ei thing will
become quite simple. You have
only to remember about six
pages of stuff like this. "When
the enemy besieges your city
(the i in city tells you to use ie
in besiege) you will seize the
enemy by the neck (the e in
neck reminds you it's ei this
time). It's all as simple as falling
off a log.
Fallinuti off a log, my foot!
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Anyone who'd fall for
cluttering up their mind with
that kind of gibberish is off his
rocker.
Tossing the book aside I
turned to more research.
I am cheered by what I've
learned.
English is the only language I
found out whose spellings are
crazy enough to provide material
for a contest like a spelling bee.
I hope schools have done
away with that miserable
practice.
In my school days the strap
held no terror for me like being
chosen for a spelling team. At
the thought of it now my throat
gets dry and my palms wet. The
humiliation of being the first
one knocked down still haunts
me.
During my probing I found
an article by a specialist who
teaches children with learning
problems. He says that in his
opinion some people will never
learn to spell accurately.
That's the club I belong to.
This club has some pretty
illustrious members, Henry
Ford was an abysmal speller
having spelled words like very
(verry) and much (mutch). I
don't imagine he worried verry
mutch about it either.
The publisher of F. Scott
Fitzgerald's writings said the
latter was the worst speller he
had ever known.
Apparently the seventh
president of the USA, Andrew
Jackson, was in this category
too. When chided about his
spelling by a colleague he was
piqued to remark, "It's a darned
poor mind that can think of
only one way to spell a word."
My sentiments exactly.
A further resource book
informed me, "English spelling
is, without a doubt, the most
perplexing, most confusing,
most paradoxical, most
contradictory and the most
frustrating system of putting
letters together ever devised by
man. It's archaic, cumbrous and
ineffective.
I give up.
However, I've found the
perfect solution to my problem
It comes in the physical
forms of two wonderful proof
readers . . . Margaret and Olive.
I'll bet if it wasn't for there
compitance and loiatly you'd
hardly be able to reed a wurrd
I've ritten.
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The Exeter Times-
Advocate is pleased to
extend' Happy Birthday
wishes to members of the
Over 80 Club.
MRS. WILLIAM
ELFORD, RR 3, Exeter,
will be 80 on December
7th.
MR. BERT CLARK,
Huronview, will be 85 on
December 7th.
Add to the happiness of
their day by sending them
a card or paying them a
visit.
If you know of
someone who will be
celebrating an 80th
birthday or better write or
telephone the T-A.
A pretty summer wedding
was solomnized on August 23,
1969 at Newtonbrook Baptist
Church, Willowdale, Ontario,
when Barbara Rose McLeod
became the bride of Bruce Lee.
The bride is the eldest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McLeod
Jr., Parkhill and the
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ohlen Truemner, Dashwood.
The groom is the only son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Lee,
Willowdale.
Rev. Herbert Johnson
officiated at the double ring
ceremony assisted by Rev.
George Bradford, cousin of the
groom, before an altar adorned
with baskets of white and varied
gladioli, arranged by the bride's
brother, Douglas.
The wedding music was
provided by the organist, Mrs.
Herbert Johnson and
accompanied the soloist John
Norvell who sang "To the Bride"
and during the signing of the
register "A Wedding Prayer."
Escorted down the aisle on
the arm of her father, the bride
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by candle light
Greenway United Church,
decorated with fern and
candelabra was the setting for
the evening wedding of Rosalie
Irene Hicks, daughter of Mr, and
Mrs. Fred E. HK$, RR 8
Parkhill and Christopher Paul
Thatcher, son of Mr, and Mrs.
Ralph Thatcher, Dorchester.
Rev, H, Dobson was the
officiating minister and the
wedding music was provided by
Miss.Evelyn Curts
Given in marriage by her
father, the bride was lovely in a
white lace over satin gown. The
waistline was accented by a satin
bow. The dress also featured a
peter pan collar and long sleeves
trimmed with dainty ruffling.
She carried coral roses
attached to a white Bible. Four
bridal attendants wore dresses of
coral satin with wide sashes of
the same material. The
headpieces were matching bows
and they carried coral roses and
white testaments.
They were Diane Fraser,
London, Wendy Hicks, Corbett,
Jennifer Thatcher, Dorchester,
and Cindy Hicks, flower girl,
Corbett.
The groomsman was Philip
Thatcher, Dorchester, and the
ushers were Bryan Hicks and
Barry Hicks of Corbett.
After a wedding reception at
the Dashwood Community
Centre the happy couple left for
a wedding trip in northern
Michigan.
For travelling the bride
donned a chic pink wool suit
wore turquoise rosettes. They
carried white mums and pink
carnations. The flower girl
carried her flowers in a basket.
The best man was Robin
Dunsham, Toronto. Guests were
ushered by Don Smith, Toronto
and Douglas McLeod, Parkhill.
The bride's mother received
the guests at the Summit View
Gardens, Richmond Hill in a
pink dress of satin and acetate
lace with matching hat and
white accessories. Her ensemble
was completed with a deep pink
rose corsage. She was assisted by
the groom's mother who chose a
matching dress and coat in mint
green shantung'
For travelling to United
States and the West Coast, the
bride wore a matching coat and
dress in off-white trimmed in a
corded green and purple material
with green accessories and
corsage of deep yellow roses.
The couple are residing at 95
Avondale Avenue, Willowdale.
trimmed with white fur, and London. where the bride is a
black a.CcessCales, dental assistant and the groom is
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looked radiant in her
Princess-line gown of white satin
with lace bell sleeves and high
neckline. It was enhanced by a
chapel train which draped
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her bridal outfit a Guipure lace
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