{"id":122,"date":"2006-09-03T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=122"},"modified":"2006-09-03T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T21:15:00","slug":"can-i-spell-or-cant-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/can-i-spell-or-cant-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I spell or can&#8217;t I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways, I&#8217;m pretty good at spelling.  I rarely look up words, and words that I write are normally written correctly, so I normally disable spelling correction &ndash; there&#8217;s no point.<\/p>\n<p>However, I sometimes write words that aren&#8217;t what I intended.  Today, for instance, I wrote <i>bath<\/i> instead of <i>bad<\/i>, and I recently wrote <i>at<\/i> instead of <i>and<\/i>.  Always correctly spelt words, just not the right ones, although they&#8217;re similar.<\/p>\n<p>I believe I do it occasionally when I speak, too, although I don&#8217;t remember any examples.<\/p>\n<p>What is this phenomenon called?  Not dyslexia, I think.  Does it have a name?  Do other people do it, too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways, I&#8217;m pretty good at spelling. I rarely look up words, and words that I write are normally written correctly, so I normally disable spelling correction &ndash; there&#8217;s no point. However, I sometimes write words that aren&#8217;t what I intended. Today, for instance, I wrote bath instead of bad, and I recently wrote at instead of and. Always correctly spelt words, just not the right ones, although they&#8217;re similar. I believe I do it occasionally when I speak, too, although I don&#8217;t remember any examples. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}