Quotes

Published November 24, 2012

My spelling is wobbly. It’s good spelling but it wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. — A. A. Milne

It’s a poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word! — Andrew Jackson

Sometimes you can’t look up the correct spelling of a word in the dictionary because you don’t know how to spell it. — Anonymous

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. — Mark Twain

“Correct” spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by school ma’ams than by practical men, neck deep in the heat and agony of the world. — Henry Louis Mencken

I type things into Google to see if I spelled them correctly.— Anonymous

Plagiarism is illegal, mispeeling iz knot. — Toni (U.A.C.)  

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