Originally Posted by dottientx
'Wordish' things drive me up the wall but misspelled words are just as bad and there's a lot of that. Didn't anyone learn how to spell during their 'schooling'?
My daughter used to come home from school (1st grade) with things like 'wuz' (was) and dun (done), spelled as she heard them. I asked if her teacher did not help her spell words she did not know. "No, Mom. She said to sound it out. She doesn't care if it is not like you spell them." No wonder people do not know how to spell! Kids are not being taught - and that was 20 years ago. We spent a few years home schooling our children to give them a good base - in a lot of things.