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Oct 21 2009

Lewis the poor speller

Posted by: Matthew in Uncategorized

Sometimes it’s nice to know you’re in good company.

It is of some interest that one of the most common changes in Lewis’s actual drafts is that words are crossed out multiple times as Lewis struggled to spell them correctly. Despite his blazing intellect and deservedly famous memory, he had a lot of trouble with spelling.

-Diana Gyler, The Company They Keep, p.132

Possibly Related posts:

  1. C.S. Lewis on Free Will
  2. Lewis bowing to political correctness
  3. Interrupting C.S. Lewis
  4. Why does Lewis seem so original?

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2 Responses to “Lewis the poor speller”

  1. SD Smith says:
    October 25th, 2009 at 3:30 PM

    I steal this. Great!

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