Or, Microsoft Word and the angry little green squiggly line
This is a scene from my house in about 1995.
Mom: Maggie, you need to practice your spelling words so you can get a better grade on your test this week.
Maggie: Why? Spelling doesn’t matter.
Mom: Yes, it does. It’s important that you spell things correctly so that people know what you mean.
Maggie: Mom, I hate spelling words! Spelling doesn’t matter. Soon everything’s going to have spell check anyway.

Clearly, this is not me.National Spelling Bee by erin m
Okay, so I was right, but I was also wrong. (See, Mom, everything does have spell check.) I’m still a terrible speller. (Sometimes so bad that even spell check can’t figure out what I mean.)
So to spare all you lovely readers the time you’d spend scratching your heads, wondering what I’m trying to say, I type my posts in Microsoft Word before bring them over to WordPress to publish. (“Thank you, Maggie. We appreciate that you think of us.”)

revenge of the spelling be by postbear
Word is one of my greatest blogging aids, but it’s also one of my greatest blogging enemies. Why? That angry little green squiggly line. You know, the one that says, “That is not correct grammar.” And here’s the thing, a lot of the time, it’s my fault. (Somehow all the AP English classes didn’t convince me that sentences need both a noun and a verb.) Continue reading →
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