CORRECT SPELLING.
PUNCTUATION MATTERS MORE The Archbishop of York, Dr. Temple, thinks that correct. punctuation is more important : —intellectually—than correct spelling:. He said so when lip presented the school prize* at the Royal Infant Orphanage at Wanstead. "Jn writing essays," said Dr. Temple® "there are two things one has difficulty with—selling and stops. Nearly everybody says it is the spelling that matters. Now spelling is one of tlie decencies of life, like the proper use of knives and forks. It looks slovenly and nasty if you spell wrongly, like ti_vin«r to eat your soup with a fork. Kut, intellectually, spelling —English spelling—does not matter. Shakespeare spelt his own name at least four different ways, and it may have puzzled his cashier at the bank. Intellectually, stops matter a great deal. If you ate getting your -commas, semi-colons and full-stops wrong, it means that you are not getting your thoughts right, and your mind is muddled."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 8
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155CORRECT SPELLING. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 8
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