A continued tension in my relationship with my husband is that he loves word games like Scrabble and I despise them because I am not a strong speller … and I hate to lose. “But you spell for a living!” he teases me. And it’s true: I spend a large chunk of my workdays writing and copyediting the writing of others. While I’m very detail-oriented and have taught myself correct grammar, spelling has never come easily to me.
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