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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
One of my teachers once told me when I asked how to write "favourite": look it up in a dictionary, because that way you'll remember it. He was right, I never forgot how to write it (and I can even recall the exact setting and the face of the teacher when he told me that  ) So, whenever I come across a word I don't know and can't distill the meaning out of the text, I'll look it up and thus increase my vocabulary. |
My mom did that with me often when I was young. If it was a word I didn't know she'd help me look it up in the Dictionary.