If you have read many of my post you’ve probably come to the conclusion that I cannot spell. My inability to spell started very early in life. Do you remember the spelling bees in school? Yeah I was usually out in the first round. But not Moose. He usually pulled his arms in his shirt, flapped like a chicken, and finished at the top. Getting put out in the first round was not something I really shot for, but it did allowed me more time to sit and my desk and read SI. I always enjoyed Science and Math, but to this day I have a very difficult time spelling.
But then came the advent of the computer with spell check. Turns out I was born at the right time in history after all. Those of us who use PCs (not sure about MACs) have been indoctrinated to the Microsoft Office products which utilizes the F7 key to activate spell check. While it can correct the spelling of works, it unfortunately can’t read my mind for the word I’m trying to spell. Even after I run spell check – I may have all the words spelled correctly, but simply not have the right words on the document. Most of the time when I reread things I’ve wrote, I find myself reading over a wrong word (and not catching it), while saying in my mind what I wanted that word to be (don’t know if any of this makes sense). The conclusion of the matter is this. I know I have trouble spelling so if you see words that really make what I’m trying to communicate wrong or blasphemous let me know. In a day of “miss speaking” there are those of us who “miss-type”.
