Agnes by Tony Cochran for April 22, 2021

First step in rescholarization is to officially change to spelling fonetically (sic).

She knows you, Agnes. There was very little chance that you would spell curriculum correctly, so she just jumped ahead.

Curriculum correctly, curriculum correctly. Sounds odd, doesn’t it?

Just wait till she puts her foot down. :-0

Why has the lettering morphed into boldface?

EVERYBODY stay calm, and back away slowly…we are entering Agnes’ mind.

It’s written above your head, Aggie…

(ºᴗº)

I see what you’re saying.

Although it is often attributed to him (in various forms), it may not be true that Mark Twain said “Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”

However, in his autobiography he included the following: “I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.”

Trout may not have noticed, but Agnes also should have used the plural: “kericula.”

Our granddaughter likes to leave us notes and some of her spelling is interesting

Ive thought about getting a red marker and returning them to her with the errors marked

Agnes, are you not aware that in your universe, spoken words exist in little balloons that everyone can see?