That’s right, if you don’t spell it correctly how are you going to find service centers, truck stops, or other fueling stations? Before you had to thumb through a dictionary or ask a friend, now that isn’t the case. Sometimes life has gotten a bit too simple, can tend to make us almost lazy. With spell check and autocorrect it has become a lot harder to misspell your words.
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But, I stress you can’t simply rely solely on the computer. Accuracy counts. With that in mind, another thing that a lot of people, with whom American English is not their mother tongue, have issues with is our spelling. Americans tend to spell our words different than even how it’s spelled in Queen’s English (honor vs. honour and labor vs. labour as examples). But the really tricky part that people have is the use of letters that differ with word, or are silent (strait vs. straight).
With that said, diesel is not pronounced the way it is spelled. Just like so many other words. Make sure when you are researching something, such as truck stops, you get your spelling right. A minor detail like that can save you a lot of headaches later. Imagine you were writing to the head of a company, you know his name but not how to spell it? You might think that isn’t hard… what if their name was Sean, Shawn, or Shaun? Would you just guess? What if all three worked at the same company?
