their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.”
– G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, Preface
“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
“A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.”
– Napoleon Buonaparte
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
– A. A. Milne
“If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell ‘friend’, I say to them that something’s the matter with the way you spell ‘friend’.”
– Richard Feynman 1963
Peter Woronoff is a Master Practitioner in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). With Doug O’Brien, personally designated by Tony Robbins as an NLP Master Trainer, and Rob Marton, he has designed: http://www.spellinglab.com to teach 3rd graders a fun and easy way to spell. All ages can benefit.
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