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Here's a good site for the bad spellers out there.  http://www.harmonize.com/probe/aids/manual/spell.htm or this one for the common spelling mistakes  http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors

Book 6 Page 23

                                  

I’m a bad speller                        

 

I’m a bad speler and I think

you should know.

But this doesn’t mean that I’m bacward,

O no!

 

I can speak my mind,

I can even write.

But my speling is so atrosious

you may think it tripe.

 

For speling to me

is like a mistery.

Sometimes it’s an 'E' beefore the 'I,'

and other times, it’s the ‘I’ beefore the ‘E’.

 

All those speling rules!!!

 

And when you learn them then they go and tell you the rules

at times should be broken.

I’d much prefer to expres miself,

spoken! 

 

Now I could never write

a university thesis,

cause in the speling alone

they would pick it to pieces.

 

I reckon miself,

I've got a mild touch of dyslexia.

That’s spelt, d-y-s, l-e-x, i-a, I think!

Or is it, I-a,  l-e-x,  d-y-s.!?

 

At any rate

I know that me speling’s rather atrosious,

for when it comes to spelling

I’m not at all precosious.

 

Yes I succeed; I’m a bad speler

for when it comes to the written letter I must admit,

There’s much room

for me to get betterer.

 

 8/10/99 © Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au