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ELA Drills, Advanced: Spelling. Which of the words is spelled correctly?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
- 00:05
jour brought to you by shepherds Some of them hang
- 00:08
out with sheep for the sheer joy of it Which
- 00:11
of the words is spelled correctly and hear the potential
- 00:14
answers our means The others are all spelled incorrectly So
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- 00:17
we've got four words here and all of them happened
- 00:19
have silent letters in their correct spellings Which of them
- 00:23
left in a letter that shouldn't be there We'll start
- 00:25
with option a campaign Egon don't ask us why but
- 00:28
they're supposed to be a g in that word right
- 00:30
before the end Yeah we know english could be a
- 00:32
real pain and that's pain without aggie next up as
- 00:36
the month Well hear The word isn't even pronounce correctly
- 00:39
when we try to say it is written so we
- 00:41
can pretty much well nix this one right away here
- 00:43
it looks like ashman which was probably when you have
- 00:47
trouble breathing around extinguished campfires after the seymour's air all
- 00:50
smoldering in there What about sea shepherd Now we're missing
- 00:54
a second age in this one It's actually spelled s
- 00:57
h e p h e r d as in hurting
- 01:00
Shape like shep herd sheep herd Wow that actually makes
- 01:04
sense One word that left its silent letter where it
- 01:09
belongs is thie heirloom We don't pronounce that age but
- 01:13
we sure do included when the word is written out
- 01:16
If you ever see it spelled this way then it's
- 01:19
possible Some maniacal sheppard got too close to it with 00:01:22.085 --> [endTime] the electric razor
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