What Does CQ Mean

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What Does CQ Mean?

• In a review of four months of corrections in 2000
  at The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, according to
  Managing Editor John Bartosek, editors found 85
  percent of them were preventable if wed been
  more careful. We were surprised to find nearly a
  third of them involved something as basic as the
  correct names of people, places and things.
  Another quarter of them happened when we did not
  follow procedures, such as checking with
  reporters on rewrites and cqing addresses, dates
  and phone numbers.
• http//www.asne.org/credibilityhandbook/detailsmat
  ter.htm

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What Does CQ Mean?

• If you run across an unusual spelling, fact, or
  whatever, indicate that you've checked it out and
  your version is correct by writing "cq" for
  "checked."

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What Does CQ Mean?

• Cadit quaestio, Latin for "the question falls,"
  is a legal term used to indicate that a
  settlement to a dispute or issue has been
  reached, and is now resolved. In English, there
  is a similar idiom when people say that "the shoe
  has dropped."

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What Does CQ Mean?

• Cadit is the third person singular indicative
  active of the irregular Latin verb cado and
  quaestio is the nominative singular form of a
  third declension noun. These two words, together,
  form a sentence complete unto itself.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadit_quaestio  

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Spelling Quiz

• Mindy McAdams List of 50 of the most misspelled
  words.

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TEN RULES FOR BETTER SPELLING
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1. Take Your Words Apart

• Break down your words into their component parts.
  
• For example, look at the synonym for rivalry,
  which is competition.
• Why is it spelled competition rather than
  compitition?
• A competition is a petition of two or more people
  for the same thing they seek the same objective.
  
• You get the correct spelling by dividing the word
  into its two parts com-petition.

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2. Identify Prefixes

• A prefix is a letter or group of letters at the
  beginning of a word.
• When a word has a prefix, imagine that there is a
  hyphen between the word and the prefix, and you
  will generally see the correct spelling.
• Examples
• Dissolve consists of dis-solve.
• Disappear consists of dis-appear.
• So, a word that is combined with the prefix dis
  is spelled with ss if the root word originally
  begins with s, but with a single s if it begins
  with any other letter.
• Other Examples
• dis-satisfy, dis-similar, dis-appoint,
  dis-believe, dis-locate, dis-regard mis-step,
  mis-understand over-rated, over-extend
  un-natural, un-necessary, un-interesting
  under-rate, under-estimate.

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3. Identify Suffixes

• When a word has a suffix (a letter or group of
  letters at the end), you can generally apply a
  test similar to the prefix test.
• Imagine a hyphen between the word and the suffix
• double the letter if the word ends and the suffix
  begins with the same sound
• but do not double when the two letters are
  different.
• Examples
• actual-ly, drunken-ness, soul-less sincere-ly,
  clever-ness, heart-less.

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4. Double Consonants Before Suffixes -- Part 1

• When a monosyllable (a word of one syllable) ends
  in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel,
  you double the consonant before adding ing, ed,
  er, est.
• Examples
• star, starring tap, tapped wrap, wrapper big,
  biggest.

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5.Double Consonants Before Suffixes -- Part 2

• When
• a word of more than one syllable ends in a single
  consonant preceded by a single vowel,
• and when the accent is on the last syllable,
• you double the consonant before adding ing, ed,
  er, est.
• Examples
• concur, concurring commit, committed forbid,
  forbidden compel, compelling.

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Thus

• Now, you see why the following words are spelled
  with a single instead of a double consonant
• beat, beating heat, heater conquer, conquering,
  soft, softest.
• Beat and heat end in a single consonant, but
  the consonant follows two vowels instead of a
  single vowel
• conquer does not have the accent on the last
  syllable
• soft ends in two consonants.

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6. Drop the E

• When
• a word ends in a consonant followed by a silent
  e,
• drop the e before you add ing.
• Examples
• bribe, bribing drive, driving save, saving
  urge, urging.

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7. Keep the Y Before Adding ING

• When
• a word ends in y preceded by a consonant,
• keep the y before adding ing,
• but change the y to i before adding es or ed.
• Examples
• cry, crying, cries, cried reply, replying,
  replies, replied.

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8. Use I Before E Except After C... Usually

• With words in which ei or ie are pronounced like
  the ee in seem,
• use ei after c,
• and ie after other consonants.
• This will not apply if ei is pronounced like the
  a in late.
• Examples
• receive, perceive field, believe, niece, siege.
• There are, though, a number of exceptions to the
  rule
• financier, neither, seize, weird.
• Other apparent exceptions are words such as
  eight, freight, reign, sleigh.
• Note, however, that the letters ei are pronounced
  like a in late.

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9. Know the Sedes and the Ceeds

• Only one word ends in sede
• supersede.
• Only three words end in ceed
• exceed, proceed, succeed.
• All other words ending with this pronunciation
  use cede
• concede, precede, recede, etc.

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10. Learn Homophones

• Words that sound alike
• Examples
• alter, altar
• threw, through
• to, too, two
• dew, due
• flour, flower
• fore, four, for
• write, right
• eight, ate
• steak, stake
• hour, our
• one, won
• there, their, theyre

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10.1 Avoid Mind Farts

• Words that sound similar (not alike) but are
  often misused
• Examples
• compliment / complement
• affect / effect
• accept / except
• winch / wench
• Drawn from Arizona State University Online
  Handouts

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Poem Spell Checker Blue It

• I have a spelling checker
• It came with my PC.
• It plane lee marks four my revue
• Mistakes I cannot sea.
• Ive run this poem rite threw it.
• Im sure your pleas to no,
• Its letter perfect in its weigh.
• My checker tolled me sew.