When Conversation Can Get You in Trouble!

One of my coworkers asked me how to spell a word for her. I get it all the time because I write, and normally, I'm a really good speller. I learned how to spell out things phonetically in school.

My mother said she didn't learn it that way and ended up writing some things with American spellings, some things with Canadian, and some--her very own special way. :)

She was Presbyterian, like so many Scots families are, but since she couldn't spell it, she said she was Methodist. Her father's side o...