Spelling

Is it perhaps because we don't spell words or write them out the way we used to, because of our clever phones and tablets and computers in general?

If you wrote the word out by hand you would probably get it right like you used to. Being challenged by two or three alternatives by predictive text or a spelling program, makes it harder.

DGS is just starting to learn spellings and the glories (confusions!) of the many homophones even in simple reading books are causing him some grief.

How many of us actually remember phone numbers any more, because we don't have to? I struggle with my home phone number when asked. (Moved home too often!) My mobile is the same number I have had since my first phone and I have no problem with that.

I fear use-it-or-lose-it applies to spelling just as much as everything else they tell us about.

Glad it's just not me, ladies.

I always got 10/10 in spelling tests at school. We were talking about how we spell at Knit & Natter the other day. I can still spell very well and have no trouble remembering words. I do, however, have to spell in "baby letters", not the letter names, if you understand me. It takes me ages to spell a word out using letter names.

Totally agree with all that has been said.
I'm embarrassed, as I was the go to person by colleagues querying the spelling of a word.

Yes, I now have to think before spelling a word.
It used to be immediately obvious, but some words now take a lot of thought.

I was always good at spelling but it has deteriorated in the past few years. I blame predictive text!

I was officially champion speller at school. But occasionally now I have trouble with words I never had a problem with before. ( like 'occasionally'!