ORTHOGRAPHIA

I can't spell.

I mean, yeah, I can spell well enough to write this.

But to spell a word like "pneumonia", I cannot even get close enough for spell-check to recognize it.

I must go to an on-line thesaurus (and to look up how to spell thesaurus, I need to use spell-check, but I can at least get close enough for it to recognize what I am trying to spell), put in a synonym for "pneumonia" such as lung inflammation - illness - cold - none of which bring up "pneumonia."

See what I mean?

Do you think I can get disability tags for my truck for this?

BLAME THE PROGRAM

This is an experiment of sorts.

Normally I write my blog while on my blog. This time I am attempting it on my regular word processing program.

Some advantages are immediately popping up, particulary with my absolute and complete inability to spell anything correctly. I can't spell my name accurately most days.

But in here Word picks up my lame attempts to convey a particular word and effortlessly fills in a completely inappropriate word that is nothing at all like what I am trying to spell.

It also refuses to accept words /names which I regularly employ (Najale, Wiltfong, Fordyce's sermons) and will offer substitutes such as captain for capable, grievance for groaning, and lithium for lightning.

And it's much easier to blame a computer program than my own shortage of writing prowess.