Re: general topic of spelling

[hls_ut -at- comcast -dot- net]

Philip Taterczynski said:
>  ...my personal experience with technical writing as been "Dictionary?  I 
> don't need no steenking dictionary".  I'd be interested in hearing from 
> others who were early readers   

Not a particularly early reader (5?), but always a voracious one--and a naturally fast one as well.  I often experience that write & spell but not pronounce phenomenon.  People use me like a walking dictionary.  

Is this weird?  Often I can't spell a word aloud--the process of having to speak the letters slows me down and they get jumbled up.  But if I write it down quickly it's usually correct, and then I can call out the spelling.

BTW, I dig your name--my surname, while long and ethnically similar, is not quite as challenging.  Growing up in New England, I often saw names like yours and I can usually pronounce them fairly well--but spelling them correctly is another story!

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