Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for July 18, 2015

“It’s Catch 22 Charlie Brown.”

Obviously. Nowadays when you ask for information about something, your response is to Google it.

You know, I heard this from some of my teachers in high school when someone asked how to spell something. Never thought about it until now, but that was terrible advice. If you don’t know how to spell something to begin with, especially something with silent letters or where a particular letter, or set of letters, sound like a different letter, it makes it hard to look something up.

Though I do like what my 10th Grade English teacher would do. If you didn’t know a word, he’d give you the spelling and then tell you to look up what it meant. At least you knew how to find it in the dictionary.

Nowadays, we can use a spell checker. But, there are also printed editions of “Bad Speller’s Dictionary” that allow you to look up words by their most likely misspellings.

This from the same boy who would screw up spelling his dog’s breed in the National Spelling Bee Finals.

There’s a hole in my bucket, too.

Old Patty should have at least give him the first 3 letters…………………… or maybe she is “playing smart” and actually does not remember the spelling LOL

Ah for the days when dictionaries were books.

I was always an excellent speller. Even though we had a perfectly good dictionary, whenever my mother would write a letter, she’d inevitably call to me, “Karen…how to you spell [whatever word]?” To this day, whenever anyone asks how to spell a word, even if it’s not directed towards me, I’m quick to spell it.

I always say, “I got my spell-checker from Mrs. Passarella in the fourth grade.” But then, I read a lot— spelling’s not the problem, pronunciation is. The online dictionaries with the spoken pronunciation are wonderful.

G-O-V-E-R-N-O-R

For goodness sake, Charlie Brown, just look up. It’s right there in the balloon in front of you.

I like Dictionary.com. If you can make a guess at the first couple of letters it will predictively give you a list of words it thinks you want.

I have always been a good speller; not perfect, but better than many folks including my wife.

Back when I was a student at the U of M, and she at St. Cloud State, we would write to each other (you know, those things called letters where you use a pen or pencil and a sheet of paper). Her spelling was awful, so one time I corrected the spelling in her letter to me, and sent it back to her!

The next time we met face to face, I not only received a nasty stare, but also a very cold shoulder, so I never did it again! She did marry me back in 1971, and we are still together…

To be fair, Charlie Brown is still 4 at this point in the strip.

To this day..Every time I spell Knife or Knives I look at the word I wrote and say..“That still doesn’t look right.”(I didn’t look it up..Did I spell it correctly?")

CB could start by Googling any real governor, past or present. Then he could look at the search results and read them, seeing if any or all use the word “governor” with the information it gives about that particular governor.I learned how to spell “euchre” decades ago by looking up playing cards and card games in the encyclopedia.

Oh, come on, am I the only one who uses Google (or Bing in my case) to figure how to spell a word. The suggestions that pop up under the search bar will give you the answer as you type in the letters.