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Old 09-14-2011, 03:07 AM   #37
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... it gives my train of thought a real jolt in coming across a mis-spelt word or bad punctuation or poor grammar, which literally leaps off the page at me!
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I wonder, have you ever tried reading anything written in the "good old days" when spelling (or grammar come to that) was not codified at all , and you spelt/wrote as you thought ?
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I've been reading Quadrophenia, and it's a mix of both English and American. Colour is spelt right, but a lot of the words have a letter Z in them instead of an S.

And I always thought spelt was a type of wheat.
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