Ok, I’ve been one of the lucky ones. I have yet to be attacked by any of the Vocabulary/Spelling Police.

I’m not saying I never will (knock on wood) but maybe I’m just lucking out due to being so darn funny!

(I barely could say that with a straight face!) 

I’m not saying I’m really bad, but I do mess up. I have lots of excuses, I mean reasons.

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• I could blame it on genetics…. that whole apple not falling far from the tree stuff
  • But that would be an easy cop-out and unfair
  • Besides, one of my sisters has already taken that one

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• I could blame it on spell check…. God only knows how much I LOVE my red squiggly line! They are so pretty
  • But being that I’m 46, the spell checker can only account for my bad spelling the past 15 – 20 years if I’m lucky
  • But I will say, it sure hasn’t helped it any!

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• I could blame it on the dictionary…how many times have we heard this…“Look it up in the dictionary!”
  • I’m still trying to find phone under the “F”s
    
  • And Psycho under the “S”s
  • I’m just saying……

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• I could blame it on how lazy we are as a country
  • I’m pretty sure having 26 letters in the alphabet allows for a gazillion (just saw a red squiggly by the way) …a gazillion combination of letters to create new words
  • Is there a reason we have so many words that sound the same but are spelled differently?
    • Do we really need – there, their, and they’re?
      • Even when offering sympathy we can’t really go, there, their, they’re….

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• I could blame it on my Honor’s Classes
  • Yes, I’ll admit it. I was an Honor’s student my whole 18 years.
    • GATE, MGM, HONOR’s, whatever the name was in each district or level, I had them
  • Or as I like to think of it, I was the stupidest smart kid in my class
    • Why? I really hate studying
  • In Honors they taught me how to read. Not spell. Sorry, it’s true.
    • Probably why I hate reading so much as well now that I think about it.

Yes, I could blame it on all of the items above. But the reality is, it probably is a combination of it all. Plus sprinkle in the fact that I am just not fascinated with words and language like some folks. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good Scrabble or Words for Friends game. But my reality is, I read so fast my mind knows what it is Suppose to be reading and not necessarily what was typed or hand written.

I bet most of you do too.

Read this….

Ok, by a show of hands…

How many of your read – A Bird in the Bush?

Now, how many of you read A Bird in the the Bush?

Some of you are still reading the same….I’ll wait for those folks to catch on…..

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OK, I’m out of time. My point is this….

Sorry I’m not a great speller, but let’s face it, in some cases (not all) spelling might be a little over rated.

Oh yea, and please Spelling Police…..Don’t attack me!  

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This is a humor blog……I was trying to be funny….

Plus I fixed all my read red squiggly lines!

LOL

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~~~till we laugh again~~~