How do you spell balloon or balloon? The article discusses how to remember the spelling of dictionary words with a double consonant once and for all.
Where and when doubling letters
In Russian, doubling of consonants, in particular, occurs in the following cases:
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The prefix ends with the same consonant that the root begins with.
For example: dawn, story, threshold, uprising, seedling, pallet, heartless.
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The root ends with the same letter that the suffix begins with.
For example: foggy, long, columnar, tone.
Summarizing, we can say that the spelling of words with doubled consonants obeys the rule: we keep the same spelling of each morpheme.
The same rule applies to words in other languages. During the transition of a foreign word into the Russian language, the doubling of consonants, most often, is preserved. But since it is quite difficult to trace the history of the origin of foreign words (it takes some time), their spelling can only be memorized.
"Ballon" or "balloon". Where did the word come from
So, "balloon" or "balloon", which is correct? In order to deal with this, it is necessary to turn to the origins of the word.
The word "balloon" is borrowed from French, where ballon means a balloon. The French ballon is a derivative of balle - a ball, which, in turn, is borrowed from Italian, going back to the Indo-European root bhel. We see that the original word ballon, which served as the basis for the Russian word "balloon ", had a doubling of consonants, which could be preserved when moving into our language.
To accurately dot the i's, you should refer to the spelling dictionary. Indeed, the word in question has a doubling of consonants.
How to remember the spelling of dictionary words
Over time, the spelling of an already parsed word can be forgotten. And again there will be a choice: how to write, “balloon” or “balloon”? In order not to be frightened when meeting a dictionary word, you can use certain memorization methods.
Method 1. This is where previously created associations come to the rescue. In general, a balloon is a container for a substance. By memorizing the phrase: “There is one gallon in an Apollo balloon,” you can kill two birds with one stone by learning the spelling of several words at once. A gallon, by the way, is an English measure of volume.
Method 2. For people with a good visual memory, there is another way to memorize difficult words. The essence of the method is to visualize the desired word with the correct spelling as best as possible. The part of the word that causes difficulties should be presented especially vividly and unusually. In this case, the two letters "L" can burn like New Year's garlands or rise above the word,like two mountains.
Method 3. This method is for patient and diligent people. It is necessary every day for a week to prescribe a given word twenty to thirty times. Most likely, this will bear fruit, and in the future there will be no more doubts between the “balloon” or the “balloon”.
What does a balloon have to do with it?
Many languages intersect thanks to words that have common roots. By finding such "crossroads", you can forever remember the spelling of the right words.
The English word balloon, well known from childhood, has a double letter "L", because it is formed from the French ballon. It was it that in the Russian language turned into the already well-known "balloon". Everyone is used to it.
When doubting between "balloon" or "balloon", you need to remember how "balloon" is translated and written in English. Even better, link these two images into one plot. The funnier and weirder it gets, the better.
For example, you can imagine a bear from a cartoon about Winnie the Pooh who wants to eat honey. To do this, he rises in a balloon directly to the beehive, singing: "I am a cloud, a cloud, a cloud …". And now the same bear decided to change the sky to the depth and took up scuba diving. Instead of a balloon (ballon), he now has a balloon with air. To conquer the deep sea.
Having dreamed up and presented the most original paintings, the next time, faced with a dilemma: “balloon or“balloon”, a person confidentlywill make a choice in favor of the first.
Where else can these methods be used?
This article discusses memorization techniques using the example of one of the dictionary words, which often causes internal disputes: "balloon" or "balloon".
Of course, these techniques can be applied not only in grammar. They will serve as a good assistant in the study of geography. Thanks to them, you can remember the complex names of capitals, rivers, mountains. They can come to the rescue both in learning foreign languages and in memorizing formulas in physics.
Of course, these techniques, depending on the task, are able to transform and combine with each other in the most unexpected ways. However, before memorizing any information, it is worth trying to understand it. After all, it is easier to understand the rule once than to memorize what it applies to many times.
If attempts have already been made to understand the material, but they have not been successful, or there is very little time to master knowledge, you can use the memorization techniques that are given in the article or come up with your own.
