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Old 01-19-2010 | 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by hockeypilot44
It never ceases to amaze me how pilots manage to find new words to misspell. "Huge" is four letters for crying out loud. How does someone mess that up?
It's easy....my wife with her masters in reading explains it as no phonics. I grew up with "see dick run, run dick run". Sight reading, no phonics. A whole generation of men my age that don't spell well, drove my secretary in the USAF crazy. In fact, on my masters degree comp (I know, a what? not Ferd) one of the readers commented that someone at this level should be able to spell better.......but he still passed me