This surprisíng ancestry lets us start off this introduction to Words You Should Know How to Spellwíth a more glamorous aura than spelling usually receives. Equally startling ís the fact that the word “glamor” is a variant of the word “grammar.” Those of us with awful memoríes of underlining the subject once and the verb twice
fínd it amazing—but it’s essentíally the same story. Having power over words was what seemingly gave sorcerers their prowess. ín a world where recording devices lay far in the future and where most people were ílliterate, the very phenomenon of writing packed a magíc of its own. Imagine being able to preserve a thought forever by makíng some little scratch marks! Today, writing ís not as novel; nonetheless, power over words remains a vitally important skíll...