Word: speller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strangest feature of the book is Mr. Lindsay's own illustrations, mostly contained in the latter half where he goes maundering off after Egyptian hieroglyphics. They look like nothing or everything, according to the taste and fancy of the speller, my lord...
...think my interest in this comes from an observation made some time ago. In hiring stenographers, I have found that the careless reader is invariably the careless speller. One of the tests I have used in hiring stenographers has been to have them read perhaps out of the editorials of the day's newspaper. I find careless reading connotes sloppy expression, indifferent spelling, indirect mental activities...
...President spoke informally upon General Washington before The National Educational Association: "The end of Washington's school days left him a poor cipherer, a bad speller and a still worse grammarian...