Originally Posted by
Ferd149
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

Agreed.
<----- Smart (kind of) but cannot spell worth a darn. Still need to remind myself of those little sayings like, "I before E except after C."