Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Mon May 11 20:25:18 CDT 2009
Good for you! Once in a while people don't like to be corrected, but occasionally some do. This is reaching way back, to Grade Seven, when my teacher was Ms. Mosquin, and she magnificently gorgeous and I suppose the first love of my life (I was 12 and she was 20+ but that didn't matter to my young heart)... And one day in class she said "spasdomically" and I raised my hand and said "Miss Mosquin, it's 'spasmodically' not 'spasdomically'". To her credit, she looked it up and discovered that I was correct, and publicly admitted same to the class. And she went further. She told our class that if anyone has any questions on how to spell any word, consult Arthur! And that year I won the provincial spelling bee. I still posess the medal that proves that at that time and place I was the best speller in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Among other useless skills, I can also recite the alphabet backwards (which I learned from a magnificent Brit band called The Soft Machine, which was in turn named after a William Burroughs novel). A.