Beth's Ponderings
Ever forget how
to spell a word? Not just any word, but
a really simple common word?
That happened to me
the other day. I can’t remember now what
the word was, but I can tell you it had less than 6 letters, and was one I tend
to use a lot, but at the moment I needed it, I could not remember how it was
spelt at all!
When that would
happen to me as a child, my mom would always tell me to just go look it up in
the dictionary, which used to bug me to no end, because if I knew how to spell
the word enough to look it up, I wouldn’t need to look it up!
Sounding out the
word didn’t always help either. I
confess, that in high school once I completely blanked on how to spell “is” and
sounding it out SHOULD have worked to help me figure it out, but it didn’t. Ever try getting a school teacher to tell you
how to spell “is” - trust me, it’s pretty much impossible because they don’t
believe you!
Thankfully, we have technology now that will tell you how to spell a word when you speak to it, and it doesn’t care that you can’t spell the word, or tell you to go look it up.
Beth
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