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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the dictionary

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your best friend when it comes to spelling words correctly it's not [Girl hugging a dictionary]

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exactly the most fun at sleep overs though probably worth your while to have a few [Girl putting makeup on the dictionary]

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non book friends there too all right which of the following words is spelled

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incorrectly and here are your potential answers all right

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All right so we've got just the sort of situation here where a [Boy flicking through pages in a book]

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dictionary can help a ton much more than when you take an unintentional dip in [Man jumps into a pool]

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the deep end of a swimming pool in that instance a dictionary is no help at all [Man shouting for help to the dictionary]

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all right well let's start by taking a

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gander at D now this word might have a lot of letters in it but its not too much of

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a nuisance to spell, looks good to us so D is out what about C looks like every letter [The answer D is crossed out]

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is in the right place so no need to worry about misspellings or barbarians at the

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gate so C is out how about B yep another perfectly spelled word so we don't have [The answer C is coressed out]

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a real fiasco on our hands not unless we invested heavily in option B in which [Woman has pile of papers put on her desk that are labelled B]

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case we might have some explaining to do to our clients all right what about A, oh oh [Angry man walks up to the womens desk]

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this word does not appear to be listed in the dictionary of Google and at all [Magnifying glass running over a dictionary]

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bad news for option a good news for us the closest we can find is suffrage [Upset looking letter A next to a girl with her thumbs up]

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which means the right to vote in political elections it's only off by one E

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but it's enough for a misspelling so by unanimous vote a is our answer after [The answer A is ticked]

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that virtuoso performance the dictionary might be our actual best friend thank [The dictionary smiling]

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you google Sorry Melissa tell us when you can

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spell chrysanthemum properly...

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