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Hello and welcome to six minute vocabulary. I'm Finn. And I'm Catherine. In this program,

we're talking about misspelled words.

Let's start by listening to Marcus. He's talking about his last holiday.

And here's a question for while you're listening. What was the weather like on Marcus's holiday?

Last year, we decided to have a foreign holiday. We travelled by coach to Rome and the scenery in northern Italy was beautiful.

Our hotel accommodation was great and we had some wonderful meals in restaurants.

The weather was a bit changeable until the third day but it didn't matter.

We got to practice our Italian and it's a lot better now. The

whole thing was a great experience.

We're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com.

We asked you, what was the weather like on Marcus's holiday?

And the answer is the weather was a bit changeable,

and that brings us to our first common spelling mistake.

Changeable is spelled

Z-H-A-N-G-E-A-B-L-E.

Yes, there are quite a lot of words with the letters,

G-E in them, and the E shows that the G is pronounced softly as

G-changeable.

Now other examples of words with the j-sound spelled G-E are manageable, management, knowledgeable and acknowledgement. And they all have the E after the G.

But what other words with tricky spellings did we hear? Have a listen. Last year we decided to have

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