Creative Spelling ; Your Article On Professor Ken Smith's Opinion That There Should Be 'Variant Spelling' of Certain Words, Reminded Me When I Was a Classroom Assistant at Callington Comprehensive School.

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Your article on Professor Ken Smith's opinion that there should be "variant spelling" of certain words, reminded me when I was a classroom assistant at Callington Comprehensive School.

When I pointed out to an 11-year-old girl that she had spelt a word incorrectly, she indignantly replied: "That is not spelt incorrectly. That is creative spelling." Maybe she had a point.

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Creative Spelling ; Your Article On Professor Ken Smith's Opinion That There Should Be 'Variant Spelling' of Certain Words, Reminded Me When I Was a Classroom Assistant at Callington Comprehensive School.

The profes...

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