I used to have some skills. Basic skills that enabled me to get by in the world. Skills to pass as a literate person. Chief among these skills was spelling. Yes, I used to be able to spell. Well, you can see many words here that are spelled correctly (or so l believe) but every one in awhile my brain runs amok and I cannot spell. You, I hope, spotted my misspelling of “plague” a fairly common word that I had to look up to reassure myself that I had typed it correctly. I seem to have regained the skill of spelling plague correctly. In another piece for One Typed Daily, I misspelled “dumb”. I am resting assured that most people can spell dumb correctly. I don’t mean “dum” as the misspelling. I had started typing the word as “bum….” As I realized something was wrong with it. But the correct spelling? l struggle with it. Well, at least I know it was wrong. Getting it correct, getting it right was tough. For some reason I could not sound it out. Dumb is pretty easy to sound out, provided you can.
I am reasonably sure about the cause for this problem. It is not related to computers and the highlighting of misspellings, alerting you to a mistake. That brings its own set of problems. What with people accepting the correction but never committing a word to memory. People with that affliction never have a cure for it, unless they are committed to getting it right and jot the word down for review.
I am reasonably sure that my problem is related to my inability to remember some words. it is related to that. There I am talking along and I stop. Because I cannot remember the word for whatever it is that 1 need to say. 1 would give an example now except the cause is self evident, I cannot recall that words that I cannot remember. This is a (side??) effect of the stroke I had. It used to be much worse. We talked about it in therapy. We talked about stratifies for working around the problem. Now 1 have an occasional problem with spelling. Hopefully the reader can figure out what I am attempting to get right. Until then I keep trying to get it.
— MichaelRpdx :: ih3k