Spelling?

[Jona Lendering]

The trouble is spelling tests stop in the older classes so although we can all spell "dog" and "water" some of us struggle with anything longer

I always thought it was rather unfair to criticize Dan Quayle for not being able to spell potato; the English language simply has a spelling system that depends on its past, not on usefulness. I would not be too harsh upon erroneous spelling. Had Quayle become president, he would have at least one point in common with the emperor Augustus.