OT: what's with the 'i'?

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/31/2013 12:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> I **AM** dyslexic and live and die by my speel ckecher.
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> Oops.
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> Really, without 4th grade remedial speach and reading (back in '59) I
> don't know where I would be today.

I'm not dyslexic, but my 4th grade teacher (in '59, IIRC) had a method 
of teaching spelling that ensured that if you ever fell behind you'd 
never catch up.  (By the end of the term, the best students were 
learning 35 new works a week; the worst, 5.)  I wasn't among the worst, 
but fell behind enough that the only thing that's "taught" me spelling 
is having the same words corrected over and over, and even then there 
are some I can't remember.  At least you and I use our spelling checkers 
and pay attention to them.  Those who can't spell and won't use them 
have no excuse IMAO.