Kathy Edens

1. “He said” and “she said” are stilted when overused.
2. Only use dialogue tags every three or four lines.
3. Use action to show who’s talking.
4. Use dialogue to tell your reader who’s talking.
5. Final thoughts.

How to use the “that being said”

1. With that being said, I left the room.
2. While that being said, I was driving.
3. In that being said, I jumped off the roof.
4. As that being said made me fall to my knees and cry.
5. That being said, she locked the door and turned off the light.

Enunciation is the act of clearly speaking in order to allow someone to understand. What is the difference? You can mumble a word and pronounce it correctly, but you are not enunciating it. If you properly enunciate a word, but cluster the letters wrong you are not pronouncing it properly.

The only word that’s always spelled incorrectly is “incorrectly”. The question above specifically says “always”, which makes it totally obvious. For example even in the dictionary, the word incorrectly is spelled as “incorrectly”.

Here are the top 10 most misspelled words in the English language, according to the Oxford Dictionary:

1. Publically. Whether you use it privately or publicly, this is one you want to make sure is correct.
2. Pharoah.
3. Definately?
4. Goverment?
5. Seperate.
6. Occured.
7. Untill?
8. Recieve?

The 25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words in America

• Accommodate.
• Liaison.
• Lollipop.
• Beautiful.
• Tomorrow.
• Which.
• Unforeseen.
• Idiosyncrasy.

AT Experts reviewed the top-searched “how to spell” words by state from March 24, 2020, to March 24, 2021, using Google Trends. “Quarantine” was the most widely misspelled word, most searched in 12 states, the data revealed. Many people even thought it was spelled “corn teen.”