I capitalize playfully when I want a word or concept to be taken Seriously.

I don't know the causes of workplace Pooh Case, but I'm willing to blame business schools.

Tangentially, my entirely unscientific observation leads me to believe that the majority of poor spellers didn't read [books] a lot growing up. That goes double for homophone problems.

So is Duck Dynasty scripted or "reality"?

It's reality, I thought, but bon said a friend of hers is applying to write for it, so ... Clearly I'm not up on what "reality" means anymore.

I work with a couple writers who do that. "And when the children are old enough for School, be sure to take them to the Doctor for a checkup first." NO.

Sounds like Winnie the Pooh capitalization is like what Piglet's agent would say during movie negotiations: it's too much to bear.

My rising 5th grader Poor Speller reads a ton of books. But she was slow to learn to read, and probably would not be such a happy reader if I wasn't, you know, a librarian. I would bet a lot of poor spellers have brains wired in such a way that makes them not-great readers as well, so their lack of reading books a lot may be a symptom of their problems rather than a cause.

I read a ton of books as a kid and was a horrible speller. (Or, at least, I was a horrible speller when I was writing. I won a bunch of spelling bees. No one ever figured out how that worked.)

Speaking of my rising 5th grader, Hil, she got measured recently and is now as tall as you.

Sara is a great reader and an awful speller. In her case, I think it's mostly that she can't be bothered to worry about it.

Franny is another creative speller. I've noticed that she does well on spelling tests, but as soon as she's writing a story or an essay her spelling goes awry. I'm working on a theory that the brain stores the spelling of the word in one slot and the meaning in the other, and her brain hasn't quite laid down the wiring to access both at once.

E is like that too. She does well on spelling tests, but otherwise is horrible at spelling, much like I was/is. I think it's because she simply memorizes the spelling test words rather than using phonics.