Re: Terrible, Awful, No-good, Very Bad...spelling?
My own feeling is that if you have sight, you see text everywhere all the time, and so build up a massive mental archive of correctly spelled words. If you read a lot, this archive is greater still. When you see a word that is spelled wrong, and you have lots of correct examples stored in memory, an alarm goes off. If you only have a handful of examples of a particular word in memory, and you spell it wrong, you get a little niggly feeling something isn't right, enough to cause you to look it up, but if you have no examples no alarm goes off at all. I think blind people who don't read tons of braille, are at a disadvantage when it comes to spelling. Especially with the English language being filled with homophones and words that aren't spelled phonetically.
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