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Old 11-24-2003, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by rcipema
No, I was not aware of that. Remember I was an immigrant, who started in grade six in Canada. It does explain a lot though.
ya but you started grade 6 in what year? this happened around 1975
but ya you would have been past that level by then.

Steve
That would have been in 1952. It is a fascinating subject though. I can't see how one could teach spelling phonetically when so many words sound the same, but have different meanings. An example would be "seem" and "seam".
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