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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
Having to learn to spell correctly is just as important . . . Also, what is the "memorizing word lists" thing? I don't remember thinking I was memorizing anything. . . Being an avid reader helps.
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I was trying to point out that spelling can be and often is as poorly taught as American history. I got phonics, my three-years-younger brothers didn't, and they had an awful time trying to get spelling right, where I can if necessary just visualize my word as if on a projection screen on the inside of my forehead -- memory is definitely visual here -- and am something close to a spellchecker on legs in consequence. My brothers are also nowhere near the readers that I am.
Yes, it does, though nowadays you have to make some effort to read material that has been competently edited, and the general standard of editing in American writing has visibly declined. A shame.