Quote and Letter to the Editor

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5-Minute Memoir

Wordplay

by Lisa TE Sonne

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My parents encouraged me to use my imagination in writing, but not in grammar and spelling. • Until I learned to be more of a conformist for the sake of clarity, I was known to write across the top of my papers a quote by Thomas Jefferson:  “I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word only

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Writer's Digest responded via e-mail June 21,2016 8:54 AM:
Re: Reader Mail

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! The murky origins of that quote was an oversight on our part. We do our absolute best to be thorough, but unfortunately we don't get it right 100 percent of the time, and we appreciate our reader's understanding.

Best,
The WD Editorial Team

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When I went back to yesterday's post where I copied and pasted the LJ support's link, I discovered why my reference link did not work, but the LJ support person's did.

I am dyslexic. Instead of typing a href, I typed a herf AND read over the top of it repeatedly, automatically reversing it in my brain. I had no idea I was so tricky, LOL!

(AND I can remember without notes how to copy and paste successfully, a trick I could not teach many family members not on a Mac.)