Letters to the Editor
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It's the not minding
That I mind, when I see GWB make a fool of himself consistently and never blink an eye, never show the slightest bit of embarrassment. Just the opposite he seems proud to bursting of every little moronic utterance.
About spelling, it's also something that's become unimportant. I read misspellings in magazines and webzines all the time. I don't mind it in the letters sections, but the actual publications? It's awful. My 16-year-old daughter and I were in an antique store weeks ago and found a spelling book for 8th graders from the 1930s. It was definitely no frills, no pictures, just page after page of lists of words and questions about the phonetic sounds and their letter equivalents, and the meaning of the words, the words used in sentences. My daughter said it looked very strict, (I know) but looking at it you could see they meant business and you would learn to spell from that gray little book. Most of the old people I know are very good spellers, maybe that's why. And yes I've heard people say tough road to hoe, irksome. They must have been brought up in barns.