X n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers and like them will doubtless last as long as the language.
I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
A synonym is a word you use when you can?t spell the word you first thought of.
X n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers and like them will doubtless last as long as the language.
I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When shes asleep I go over there and write misspelled words on them.