Hello and welcome to six-minute vocabulary. I'm Finn.

And I'm Catherine. In this programme, 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 j-changeable.

Now, other examples of words with the j-sound, 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 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.

Now the spelling of foreign is interesting.

There's a spelling rule that says you must put I before E except after C.

And that's a really good rule for lots of words.

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