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Letter: my brother could spell almost anything, not me "You may complain about my spelling, something I'm famous for! Ed was as close to perfect with his spelling as anyone I've ever known. I was the only one of the six that could not spell." By Ralph Roy Waggener My brother Ed Waggener one time wrote about the city police, the mayor's men. He was setting at his nifty electric typewriter typing the story. The Late Pete Walker was to the left in front of him ad-libbing and Ed would nod his head and kept on typing without stopping. I was on the right side in front of Ed and was ad-libbing the same as Pete was. Still Ed would nod his head and just kept on typing! When the story was finished he pulled it out and made two corrections and sent it to press! The story was, if I remember right, "You don't pull on Superman's cape and you don't mess with the mayor's men." Ed could tell you how to spell almost any word, not only spell it, but could also tell you all the different meanings to each of them. If anyone would complain about Ed's misspelling of any word then no one is safe. You might complain about my spelling, something I'm famous for! Ed was as close to perfect with his spelling as anyone I've ever known, I was the only one of the six that could not spell. I grew up thinking I was not smart because I could not spell, My big brother Ed talked me into going to Celina TN for the Clay Statesman mail and to take some Polaroid pictures. He told me to get the names of all in the photo and added. "Get who, what, when and why to the photo." I did this and would bring the info back and someone like Gordon Crump would put it into a proper form, I did this for several years. It did bother me about my bad spelling but I found I was a natural at knowing what people wanted to read. Ed taught me a lot and got me into a field I would never, never gotten into had he not pushed me! Ed taught most all the people in the news business in Columbia at some time or another in their lives! Dyslexia I think is my spelling problem, yes, I'm defensive about my bad spelling because I held back for several years thinking I was not smart because of my bad spelling, just recently my Cousin Bob Chelf had taken a course on Dyslexia and has told me some about it and the many forms of it! I get Tuesday and Thursday wrong about 80% of the time, I have no trouble reading and I know what's right or wrong. Bulling comes in a lot of forms and I feel as I have been bullied a lot by people who can spell very good and like to show off their spelling skills. My thought is, if you can read and understand, then why worry? I've even had people tell me I should not write because I misspell words. How mean some people can get, brother Ed never once rode me about my spelling! - RRW Ralph's article is in response to Doug McCammish's comment on Ed's news item about "sighs" which rightly should have read "signs." Ed appreciated corrections being sent in, especially if a name needed to be made right for the public record. - LW This story was posted on 2019-02-14 07:29:01
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