Thursday 22 March 2012

why you might annoy me in a spellathon.

As promised, today's post will be, almost entirely, a rant about people's inability to spell.

There are words in the English language that everyone should be able to come to terms with. I often feel like a snob for making a point of the fact that people don't know how to spell words that are just simple. I've always been a good speller; I was the slightly thick kid at the back of the class but somehow the phonetic alphabet was given to me; I'd love to know where from.

As I grew up I found myself able to write rants especially well. Why? Simple. My grammar is good. I know where particular words need to go to make a coherent sentence. How do I know? Again, simple, I listened in school. GCSE English was a goldmine of knowledge that would one day be applicable to me. It has proven to be so, especially considering I'm doing a humanity.

So yes, everyone should be able to spell.