Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for April 22, 2024

This sounds like something that happened when I was a kid too

Vicious circle, Charlie Brown!

Ah, CB, I remember it well. Even in first grade. The teachers saw our written work every day, why they thought we could look it up in the dictionary is beyond me. Some of the kids were extremely creative in their spelling, leading to the response, “Teacher, it’s not there.”

Just read the dialogue balloon, it’s right there!

D-oh!

There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Patty, dear Patty…

My mother was a regular letter-writer, sending letters & cards for all occasions. She would usually write at the kitchen table. Just a few feet away was a hutch, and our dictionary was on top of it…and easy reach. However, whenever she couldn’t spell a word, instead of looking it up, she’d yell to me (usually in the living room), “How do you spell ‘[word that needed spelling]’?” To this day, when I hear that phrase, whether it’s addressed to me or not, I automatically spell the necessary word.

Excuses, excuses!

Teacher once told me to look up the spelling in a dictionary, and I spent the next hour looking at the dictionary, until she asked me what I was doing. I told her I was looking for the word and hadn’t found it

At the twelfth hour there will be no pardon from the governor for YOU Charlie Brown!

Simple. Just read the whole dictionary.

Try goggle. That’s what I do..

Thank goodness for speech recognition, or it’d still be happening. At least, to me.

Yep. It’s the ’ol catch 22.

Very similar to a standard situation in old movies, where the phone is out, and someone says “Call the phone company!”

Mom wanted to know how to spell psychic (or one of those kinds of words) and her dad told her to look it up in the dictionary. Of course she looked in the wrong place because it doesn’t sound as it is spelled.

No stripes?

This Charlie is what we call a paradox.

This was my dilemma. In school no one took the time to teach me phonetics, or I was to dull from my circumstances, I would ask how to spell a word and was told to look it up but I didn’t know how to spell it. My school career was soaked in tears. I spent most of the time staring into space, disengaged from life, my teachers called it ‘daydreaming’.