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Originally Posted by pdurrant
He may become a reader, but it's unlikely that his spelling will improve.
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I'm not so sure about that. I *am* 100% sure that many people spell words the wrong way because they are seeing them the wrong way all the time... and often, Google is to blame. Many of my friends use the spellings suggested by Google:
- Go to
http://www.google.nl/ncr
- Search for "luidsprekerversterker" (speaker amplifier)
Google will now suggest: "Did you mean: luidspreker versterker". Same with many 'spell checkers' on phones. The one on mine actually splits words up because it doesn't know the compound word, and the closest match are the two separate ones.
In Dutch, that is wrong. I'm 100% sure that seeing words spelled correctly or incorrectly, over and over again, will have a big impact on your spelling.
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For me, an incorrectly spelled word just looks wrong.
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For me as well, but I think that is because you have seen it spelled correctly hundreds, if not thousands of times.