"Balloon" or "balloon"? How to learn something that defies the rules

How do you spell, "balloon" or "balloon"? The article considers how to remember the spelling of dictionary words with a double consonant just once and for all.

Where and when letters are doubled

In Russian, the duplication of consonants, in particular, occurs in the following cases:

• The prefix ends with the same consonant with which the root begins.
  For example: dawn, story, vestibule, rebellion, seedlings, pan, heartless.
• The root ends with the same letter with which the suffix begins.
  For example: foggy, long, columned, ton.

Summarizing, we can say that the spelling of words with double consonants follows the rule: we keep the same spelling of each morpheme.

Words in other languages ​​obey the same rule. When a foreign word is translated into Russian, the duplication of consonants is most often preserved. But since tracing the history of the origin of foreign words is rather difficult (it takes a certain amount of time), their spelling can only be remembered.

"Balloon" or "balloon". Where did the word come from

So, “balloon” or “balloon”, how right? In order to deal with this, you must 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 that, in turn, is borrowed from Italian, going back to the Indo-European root of 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 have been preserved during the transition to our language.

To accurately place all the points over i, you should turn to the spelling dictionary. Indeed, the word in question has a duplication of consonants.

How to remember spelling of dictionary words

Over time, the spelling of an already parsed word may be forgotten. And again there will be a choice: how to write, “balloon” or “balloon”? In order not to be scared when meeting with a dictionary word, you can use certain ways of remembering.

Method number 1. Here previously created associations come to the rescue. In general, a cylinder is a container for a substance. Remembering the phrase: “There is one gallon in Apollo’s cylinder”, 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 number 2. For people with good visual memory, there is another way to memorize complex words. The essence of the method is to visualize the right word with the correct spelling as best as possible. The part of the word that causes difficulties needs to 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 number 3. This method is for patient and diligent people. It is necessary to prescribe a given word twenty-thirty times every day for a week. Most likely, this will bear fruit, and there will no longer be any doubt between the “balloon” or the “balloon”.

What is common with a balloon?

Many languages ​​intersect thanks to words that have common roots. Having found such "intersections", you can forever remember the spelling of the right words.

The English word balloon (balloon), well known from childhood, has the doubled letter “L”, because it is derived from the French ballon. It was in Russian that it turned into the already famous “balloon”. Everyone is used to it.

When doubting between a "balloon" or a "balloon", you need to remember how a "balloon" is translated and written in English. Better yet, connect these two images in one plot. The funnier and more unusual it turns out, the better.

For example, you can imagine a bear from a cartoon about Winnie the Pooh who wants to enjoy honey. To do this, he rises in a balloon right to the bee hive, chanting: "I am a cloud, cloud, cloud ...". And now all the same bear decided to change the sky to a depth and went scuba diving. Instead of a balloon, he now has an air balloon. To conquer the sea abyss.

After fantasizing and presenting the most original paintings, the next time, faced with a dilemma: “balloon or balloon”, a person will confidently make a choice in favor of the former.

Where else can these methods be applied?

This article discusses the techniques of memorization on the example of one of the vocabulary words, which often becomes the cause of 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 aid both in studying 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 you memorize any information, it is worth trying to understand it. After all, it’s easier to deal with the rule once than to memorize what it applies to many times.

If attempts have already been made to understand the material, but they were unsuccessful, or there is very little time to master knowledge, you can use the memory techniques that are given in the article or come up with your own.