Show PERPENDICULAR SPELLING Theres no use talking said a literary man to a friend as the two were chatting in a restaurant It is hard work to spell perpendicularly What are you talking about asked the other That horizontal spelling is much easier than perpendicular spelling answered the literary man Are you crazy Certainly not I have tried them both I was counted a good speller 1 horizontal but since I have taken up the perpendicular method I make most egregious mistakes Will you please explain yourself asked his frond Thats what I nm doing When you write with a pen you spell from left to right on a plane but when you use a typewriter you spell up and down at right angles to the plane Then you have been talking about a typewriter Certainly Did you think I vas talking about a thrashing machine I have been using a typewriter for a I month and the pesky thing insists on turning out words In most ridiculous forms Sometimes they look as though the letters had been loaded In a shotgun and filed out they are all there but sofully mixed up Then the machine insists on dropping necessary neces-sary letters every now and then and again it will turn out twin letters with j provoking frequency Experts tell me that I will get over the trouble after a while but now the change from I horizontal to perpendicular mixes me all up In orthography 1 I I |