Re: general topic of spelling

[Michele <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>]

In college I was called "dictionary b*tch." Which suited me just fine. I 
also read voraciously, and can spell on a dime. I don't need to write it 
down or think, it just pours out and not just English. A friend and I in 
college would go out to eat and spell our orders to the wait person and 
continue our conversation by spelling. We were such jerks. We upsets a 
lot of wait staff. I do it to my children all the time. I spell 
M-A-N-N-E-R-S when they are acting poorly in public. The two eldest are 
used to me switching language mid-sentence. Yiddish when I'm angry, 
French in conversation and a spattering of Spanish and German when an 
English word will not suffice. My five year old has a decent Spanish 
vocab., and when I speak Yiddish he tells me to stop saying words in 
Spanish that he can't understand, and I say, of course, "Sweetie, that's 
Yiddish, not Spanish!"

I can spell better orally than using the keyboard, so I continue to use 
the spell checkers.

Michele

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