AgProv
Doctor of Disorientation Studies, UnseenUniversity
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this gave me a few brainfart moments.... the spelling of the word "vacuum" at primary school...Similarly, I once had a full on argument with someone about the spelling of vacum.
She pointed out that I'd missed out a "u".
I told her not to be so ridiculous; why on earth would it require two u's...?
One Google later, and I was profusely apologetic, though I still maintain that, in my original universe, it is vacum.
" Vee, ay, see, double-you, emmm"
Of course, sight unseen, I took Teacher's word and wrote it "vacwm", which is almost the phonetic spelling in Welsh (facwm) but doesn't cut it in English.
"But miss, you said "double-you!"
(Teacher does forehead-and-palm-of-hand thing)
"I know what i said..."
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