Ah, Spelling. Hated it in school, hate it now, never could do it, dispite my best efforts to correct it. Well, I guess I'm not the only one since if you do a search (I use Dogpile.com) you'll find many sites on Spelling reform. Some crazy, but some are valid, or at least make a valid argument. To Quote Spellingsociety.org Link English spelling is too difficult for most people. Even after 11 years at school barely half of all English speakers become confident spellers. Italian c...

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So my family has been discussing all this quite a bit lately. We came up with this, considering, there is no way to pay for things in N.O. (no check out clerks ya know). What would you loot if you had been there and stayed through Katrina. In my household there are two 50 yr olds, me (27), twin 4yr olds, and a 16 month old. No, we wouldn't have stayed anyway, but we were thinking, what if we had been there and "ended up" staying there for whatever reasons. We would loot, no more ...