Focusing (focussing?) on the English language
<p>The squiggly red line failed to appear. Apparently, both spellings were correct. But they couldn’t be, surely. I looked back at my handwritten notes, where “focusing” spelt with a single “s” looked just fine to me. At school, spelling was never my strong suit, but a love of writing (and the tendency to write on paper, without the benefit of spellcheck) means I’m now pretty good at it.</p>
<p>Still, I make mistakes, and it was comforting the day I found out that even the great <a href="http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/lovfrend.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Austen</a> didn’t always get it right. Maybe, even <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/unsuccessful-shakespearean-words/7296880" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Shakespeare’s famed invention of words</a> sprang from gaps in memory or inattention to detail.</p>
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