Spelling

Yes the grey matter has to work twice as hard. Have to really check now.

Definitely not but I do find I’m more pedantic about other people’s bad spelling and get really annoyed about it!

Well thank goodness I read this thread. Some comfort that I am not the on.y one.

A bit off thread but, I was looking at the outer sleeve of my fountain pen packaging and noted that it was £75
I'd admired it on a shopping trip and the friend with me, gifted it a few days later.
I also noted that it was made in China. Is there nothing which that country does not make? ??
I also Googled it and the current price is £84. Wow!
I shall wear white gloves when next I use it.

Yes, I was a brilliant speller at school. My father wouldn't put any answer in the Telegraph crossword until I'd spelt it so I learnt a lot that way. But now I have to think twice about endings in ant and ent, ly and lly endings. I still do quite a bit of hand writing so there's no spellchecker flashing up.

Well, I was a qualified proof-reader in a previous career but computer spell-checkers soon made me redundant. And lazy thinking.

Always have the well-thumbed Collins Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus at hand, I say......

Spelling I’m ok with. I love word games and have a couple on my iPad - wonder if that helps? My DH, on the other hand, is hopeless when it comes to spelling and is forever asking “How do you spell ...?” when he’s searching for something on the Internet. My hand writing, never the best, has, meanwhile gone down the pan - along with my ability to remember people’s names and a lot of my former good vocabulary.

I find my problem is relying on auto correct which, often, is defaulted at American English!