Thank Gawd Fer Spel Chek

Reflecting back on my high school years I can honestly say that I was not the brightest student in any of my classes, with the exception of Art class and Woodworking. Didn't take much effort on my part to pass those two with flying colors. I hated Math with a passion, and it was only until the advent of the calculator that I was actually able to balance my checkbook. English was my second worst subject. Hell, I wanted to be a disc jockey and have all kinds of fun so my theory was, why the heck do I need to learn all of this other useless stuff. Then came my passion for writing. Were it not for the spell check function on all word processing programs in my computer, I'd be stoopid. So bear with me here.

I still don't understand the English language. There are way too many variations for me to comprehend. Take for instance the way certain words are spelled. Psychiatrist or Psychologist should be spelled Sychistrist and Sycologist. What's with using the "P" when it sound like it should be an "S." And those silent letters in some words, like "salve." Yeah, I know, if you drop the "L" it's save so who ever thought up the product figured they'd better throw an "L" in there so we'd know the difference. But there's more. Xerox, should be Zerox. The word "pray" means one thing while the other word "prey" means another. Drives me absolutely crazy. Then there's "liquor" and "licker." Aghhhhh!

I could go on and on but I think you get the point. Fortunately for spell check I can manage to write these blogs without looking up each and every word. The only other problem I have is putting them all in the correct context using the punctuation marks where they belong. That's where my editor comes into the picture. So at that point, when I'm finished writing each day, my editor cleans up my mess.

So, with that said, I'm quit confident dat whatever I spel wrong in my bloogs each day will be corected by my competient editor and therefore I wil not look like a complete idiot. Unless of course she has an off day too.