[Ads-l] New to me: "deep-seeded"

Tom Zurinskas truespel at HOTMAIL.COM
Sat Jun 20 16:50:35 UTC 2015


Of course the word is pronounce "true" "spell" and from that pronunciation comes the spelling "truespel, "but what is this tendency to misspell it "truspel"when the "u" is short for all these wordstruck, trudge, truffle, trump, trunk, trust?

Tom Zurinskas,  Originally SWConn 20 yrs,  college Tenn 3,  work NJ  33,  now FL 12.The need for truespel phonetics - http://justpaste.it/truespelnow 


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