Spelling Woes

I hate spelling. I have already admitted that I read things and pronounce them wrong (chasm, macabre, etc.) I'm not much better at spelling.

I am surprised many of you, dear readers, have not commented on my spelling problem. Or, maybe you thought I was just trying to be clever/cute?

At any rate, while reading a book the other day, (Autobiography of an Execution by Dow, and I can't say that I recommend the book, but we're reading it for book group), I read the word. And I re-read the word. It looked funny to me. I then realized that it was because on my blog it was written "Symantics" and in the book it was "semantics". Oops.

So, I have corrected my error.


I still hate spelling. Isn't that what spell check is for? Especially since the new browsers actually check your spelling online when you're typing- that catches a lot of things. Still, the order of words, or spelling homophones (words that sound the same but have different meaning, e.g. they're and their, or thyme and time).

I hated spelling as a child. What was the point? If I could read it, why did I need to spell it?
I hate spelling even more now that I have to work on it every day with my 1st-grader. UGH! I didn't like having spelling tests when I was in school. I hate it even more having to be the parent making my child practice for the dumb things! OK, not dumb. But, I don't think my daughter is learning from them. She still spells words on her spelling test by phonics. Yup, she had words like "their" on her spelling test and she spells it "thar" or something like that. Darn sharp short term memory. Great for immediate tests, stinks for the long haul. I think she is her mother's daughter...