Spelling
Sir,—The display in “The Jeweller’s Window” this morning was a sad valediction to all of us who appreciate good English; and the opening paragraph on spelling particularly attracted my attention. In the last few years I have scarcely read one book, out of several hundred, which did not have some 10 spelling mistakes (not just misprints) obviously unnoticed by author and uncorrected by proof-reader. 1 have a photographic eye for the written word which makes spelling an easy matter for me, and was reading simple books at the age of five. Judging from the curious oral and visual gymnastics which two successive generations have been put through in order to acquire this form of literacy it does not surprise me that spelling mistakes should be so common. Another cause of the “offense” may be attributable to the American language, which already differs a good deal from ours.—Yours, etc., REVIEWER. April 2, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31027, 5 April 1966, Page 16
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