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[Mike Warren]

> On 07/27/04, Steve Talkowski wrote:
>>> Think yourself lucky, a few years after I left school - the kids were
>>> taught to spell phonetically. These people are now in the work place 
>>> -
>>> cheering us up with mispelt words. I think if you are expecting
>>> everyone to spell and use words correctly then you are going to be
>>> upset sometimes. Ignore it or live with it.
>>> Its the little differences that make people interesting.

mispelt misspelt. Your use of eyerony made my day.

On Aug 5, 2004, at 7:31 PM, John Baltutis wrote:
> You've got it backwords. Learning to spell/read phonetically leads to
> correctness, whereas the whole language approach is the one leaving our
> youth illiterate, as demonstrated daily in education reports.

Backwords frontwords sidewords words words words. If it weren't for 
spell-check I'd be completely backwards.