Why is the word "answer" spelled differently from what it is pronouced??
436435
A clue can be found in the German word for answer, which is Antwort.  The "wort" part is the equivalent of "word" in English.  So it means "response + word."  The "w" got softened over time and eventually disappeared entirely.
625491
That always happens to me and it pisses me off!! LoL. but by the next time i sign in, my avatar is all good. LoL. I also HATE it when people freek out about spellin somethin wrong. i mean, i ask a reasonable question, and thye gotta answer like "learn proper grammar!!" people are ****** up!! LoL.
954626
It is capable of different meanings according to the perception of the answerer. Please make your question more specific.
345871
if you stress the d making it "raddait" it would mean "i replied" or "i answered" in arabic.\nIf you give me some more detail on where you heard it and how it was used i'd be able to understand it better.
175733
What a shame. So many incorrect answers.\n\nJim and I versus Jim and Me\nFor some writers and speakers, the case of a pronoun becomes especially troublesome when that pronoun is compounded with something or someone else. When the pronoun is being used as a subject, there is usually no problem:\n\nJim and I are playing tennis this afternoon.\nJim and she are playing tennis this afternoon.\nWe learn this lesson so well — getting cuffed on the ears and being forced to stand in the corner when we say "Jim and me are playing tennis. . . " — that when the object form of the pronoun is truly called for, we're apt to come up with the subject form instead, as in "Grandma left Jim and I her rocking chair," which is bad form, indeed. \n\nThere is a simple rule here that seems to work very well, at least in writing. Ask yourself what pronoun form you would use without adding the other person — "Grandma left me her rocking chair" (coming up with the correct form for the indirect object) — and then, when you add the other person, don't change the form of the pronoun: "Grandma left Jim and me her rocking chair." \n\nThis rule works whether the pronoun is being used as an indirect object, as above, as a direct object — "The policeman stopped Jim and me" — or as the object of a preposition — "Grandma gave her rocking chair to Jim and me." Some writers and speakers will mistakenly say "This is just between Jim and I," not realizing that the preposition "between" calls for the object form of both pronouns, including "me."\n\nThe rule also pertains to sentences in which a pronoun is compounded with yet another pronoun: "Grandma gave her rocking chair to him and me, but that's just between you and me."\n\nNotice that when "I" is compounded with another subject, the "other person" or people get first billing: "Jim and I are playing," not "I and Jim." This is one of the very few polite forms in English.
1117345
apostrophy. dont forget i answered first.
142265
I don't usually proof-read answers until after I submit them (as there's an edit button it's not such a big deal), but I do check questions pretty carefully as I can't go back and change them later.  And when I'm not sure how to spell something I always look it up before I type it!
285079
when the answer is "greater then" or "less then" use a dotted line\nwhen the answer is "greater then or equal to" or "less then or equal to" use a solid line.\ni don't know why.\nthats just what we do.
1058495
Okay - I'll answer your question if you promise to get spell check or learn how to spell.  Right above this box I'm typing in, it says to "check spelling."  There's a reason for that.  It's because I can't understand what you're saying.
171870
Your guess is good. I would have a better answer if you were sure of the spelling.
1060741
It's tabou to answer a question with a question so I must just STATE that I don't know what a whesite is even though I know you have trouble with the word 'website'. However, to give the devil his due - your misspelling  has a nice 'ring' to it if you pronounce it: whess-it-tay. No es verdad?
1035285
Please check the spelling in your question...
1141279
One is, as I am sure you know, the contraction for you are while the other shows possesive case. There, I wrote that for all the yahooites who might read this and do not have a clue about proper English. While I am not perfect myself, some of the spellings are simply too strange at times so it is little wonder that some are confused by the two words. It is a sad sign of the times I am afraid.
275964
Thank You!  I thought I was going crazy.  The same exact thing happens to me when I use spell check.  If it finds a word that is misspelled,and you change it, it doesn't change the word, but some other word and messes up the text. I don't use it anymore, I have a link to www.dictionary.com on my toolbar now.
188156
I don't know. Maybe that's because they think people should be able to understand them. Personally, I only shorten laughing out loud, you know, lol, or curses "WTF?" If I'm responding to someone who contacts me, I shorten because to b/c, with to w/, an without to w/out because there are only so many characters you can use. These type of abbreviations are okay on question since there is also a limit of characters. However, I think there are some people who just don't realize there's a "check spelling" right there. It's amazing to see how many totally illiterate people there are out there.
714294
Good question, bad orthography. I can't wait to read the answers
546822
It ain't a word, either you have mis-typed it or you may want to re-confirm the source (from where you got that word)