23 September 2006
Yum. . .
Made from one of the white bread recipes in Sara Lewis' The Bread Book. I mixed a little cinnamon in with the dough, and then rolled it out after letting it rise, and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Rolled it back up, let it rise again, and baked it. A person could go wayyy overboard with the cinnamon sugar (and maybe next time I will!), but I think this is pretty perfect. Wonderful warmed, with a little bit of butter.
Cinnamon is a word I'm never sure is spelt right. Also raisin. I'm generally okay at spelling, but I find myself looking in the OED (on my computer) an awful lot, just to make sure something is correct. I almost always double check 'receive,' even though I know that's how it's spelt -- I double checked it just now, even. It's not so much the e-before-i thing; there's just some part of my brain that is sure the spelling has changed in the last couple of hours. What other words? Separate. Acknowledgement (which I use more often than you'd think, on account of the publishing thing). Others I can't think of.
And while I'm on the subject of spelling things correctly (I'll almost certainly find this annoying -- if not pedantic -- when I reread it later), my spelling pet peeve has to be the word definitely (often misspelt 'definately'). I've never seen anybody spell 'definite' with an a (ie, 'definate'), yet somehow the adverb trips so many people up. Why? Nobody says 'definAtley,' do they? Almost definitely not.
What now? Oh yes, tasty bread. Ahem.
(You have no idea how many words I looked up just to be sure while writing this post!)
Ohhh I "definitely" have problems with that word and spellcheck always wants to make it defiantly. What is with that?
posted by Pam at September 23, 2006 03:28 PM
i too was going to mention definitely! it ALWAYS trips me up, always!
posted by stephanie s at September 23, 2006 05:58 PM
Stephanie -- But, see, I don't have a problem with definitely; it just bothers me when other people spell it wrong. So what is it that trips you up? It's not as if my 'problem' words have any rhyme or reason, but I wonder if there's something about definitely that's actually difficult to remember.
posted by Anna at September 23, 2006 08:36 PM
Independent/independence spelled incorrectly bothers me...I always think of the Rankin/Bass Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie when I read "independAnt".
I love the Google toolbar with the form field spell check! It keeps me from dining on a daily main course of crow, you know.
posted by Laura at September 24, 2006 02:12 AM
I just found your blog and wanted to let you know that I absolutely love (love!) your dog banner. Did you draw them yourself?
posted by Elizabeth K at September 24, 2006 02:47 PM
Hi Elizabeth! Yep, I did draw the dogs -- I'm glad you like them!
posted by Anna at September 24, 2006 06:56 PM
Looks yummy!
posted by Oiyi at September 24, 2006 08:24 PM
Could it be a bit of an American thing, perhaps? I have definitely noticed a LOT of it going on, together with "burgandy" amd "lavandar", but I am a loss to understand why the English language is being desecrated at a rapidly increasing pace. My favourite (aarrggh!) sentence of all time: "I definAtely would OF GOTTEN it" (if I had the money/brains etc).
It makes my head spin, but I feel better after looking at yourlovely drawing of the dogs - would look pretty cool as an embroidery, not so?!
posted by lorraine at September 25, 2006 10:43 AM
Wow that looks superb! I make yummy cinnamon and raisin bread at the weekends, maybe I should have a go at your version, it looks a bit special.
posted by jen at September 25, 2006 01:45 PM
The cinnamon bread looks really yummy...
My pet peeve is people who don't spell but say the word 'supposedly' as 'supposably'... perhaps it's a California thing? Not sure, but I have to stop myself from correcting them. Also, people who say anyhow as 'Any...Who' where does that come from?
posted by Mitchypoo at October 5, 2006 09:34 PM