Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-03

2Sanpie "aiA 'ulaAN infancy. NoA !
think ever put the e in before: That !
extra u fascinated ME. was con-
scious that it looked funny and orig
inal. 1t seemed 'ludicrous, and it an
noyea me. Then. after while, l did
not know whether it was right or
wrong. I had to call on my little girl
and ask her to spell many for me.
AS long as | live | never shall write
made and maid without shying at
them. The verb and the noun arc
utterly distinct, but nevertheless l
have to think whether The
Made Of Orleans is right as
far as it refers to Joan of Arc. It's a
trick OF forty odd years standing. De
'spair' is another word. [ despair of |
,ever writing it without feeling Of |
uncertainty. want to make it de- |
spare l have pitch battle with my
pen before l can work in the i, and as
.often as not l put. in the after the |
word is written. I won't write 'des-
,perate' if ever can help it., but must
write 'despairate.' It's my worst case
of mixing words. l pause always at
whether and weather. thou gh I
never blunder there, but you might
put pistol to my head and not pre-
vent my writing 'hypocrite' 'hypocrit;,
that final g dropped out Of my head
| years on years ago. Do you want me
to expose my imbecility further? I
never could write aquatic or ,'aque
duct but properly, and would be inca
| pable Of blundering with aqua marine,
but the chances are ninety in the hun
,dred that if l wanted to write aquarium
I should make it 'acquarium.' | al
ways banker, too, after making quar-
ter. one-fourth, 'quater.' I have a
hatred for that interloping r. NJ:
slaughter coached me most heroically
!about agreeable with an "a, but when
| she found that l pushed the "a into
agreeament, she gave me up in de-
spare-no, 'd~e-s-r-a-i-r-e. l was
.shamed into Principal because had
to write to the principal Of school
about my lecturing before his class;
but an positive have addressed him
as Principle l speak French and
!German 1iuently, read Italian and
Spanish with perfect ease, delight in
the Roman poets, and am distinguished
for bad spelling in three languages. !
90 not brazen it out I do not say Il
don't care I rather solicit your pity
for very sad inirmity,'
In order to satisfy ones self how
strange are these idiosyncracies, it is
only necessary for the reader, without
going into the spelling bee
annoyance, to ask his friends
in regard to their peculiarities
of spelling. It is exceedingly rare
to find any one who does not tell me
that he halts over certain words. a
gentleman who in his professional duty
reads all the leading journals of the
United States declares that the words
most frequently misspclled are close
r and '>loose,' for both editors and proof
readers seem to be at sea in regard tc
= them. Working only on the threshold
! of this subject, the mental peculiarities
: are as various as curious, and are quite
! as marked among the individuals form.
, ing the staff Of a newspaper, from the
editor-in-chief down to the reporter, as
. any where else. Every body has a wore
=, Or two, some ANY quantity of them
: that they are always uncertain about
! and the word jstwritten by them a!
:. often wrongly as rightly, and what il
wolse, there seems to be no cure fo1
= such mistakes.
y Here is 4 final case, with Sigh
= tinge of romance to it. A college-bree
q man, . graduate with honors. addressc<
- u young lady, and was referred to tn
. young PERSONS father. Permission tt
press his suit could not be made verb
- ally to the father, who was absent, AM
:. accordingly the young man wrote
: letter. A reply came promptly enough
~ bat not OF q pleasing character. Th
- father, highly educated man, an
:; somewhat Of a purist, was shocke
y, with several bad plumbers Of speliin
" in toe letter, and he so informed hi
y daughter. Whether it was excitement
>. or what not, could not be determined
20 but the consequences to the sutton WEI
~ likely to be distressing. Subsequer
:" correspondence showed that the poss
*, bic son-in-law was really All educate
- man, and matters were arranged. 81
from an sep out Of place and a doub
's 49, or one too many ''ls," or n1ixin
% up an "sie' with ''cci, the fortune
=. Of two young people came near bein
., shipwrecked. !.
a after all, spelling is q mechanic
"a rather than a mental process, 81
~ those who make the mistakes.--N
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