How many words are in your vocabulary that you’ve never been sure how to spell, that you have been too lazy to look up, and that have irritated you to no end? Well, that’s all right, don’t feel too bad, that’s why you’re reading this! Here’s the answer to all your spelling problems!

Let’s take a word that could cause some confusion when one tries to spell it. How about “Perestroika”. Perestroika is Russian for openness. It is the policy that Gorbachev has followed that has opened up the communist nations towards self-determination. Generally, when we forget how to spell a word, it’s two or three letters within the word
that are confusing to us, not the whole word. For example, maybe we are having trouble remembering ii “Perestroika” is spelled with an “I” or an “io”.

The first action we take utilizes the technique that is frequently used in names to convert words to pictures that one is already familiar with. If we can not even prono unce the word correctly then we need to take the preliminary step of causing ourselves to surmount this obstacle. Keep in mind that this problem (of not being able to pronounce the word correctly) is deadly to correct spelling. We must first convert the word
“Perestroika” to a picture Some words that would help us get a picture of perestroika are PAIR, PEAR, deSTROY, CUp.

Now, we know that the word “Perestroika” is spelled with an “oi”, so now think of words that have “oi” in them boil, coil, doily, foil, oil , soil, oink, boink, coin, asteroid, deltoid, android, . . . you only need one.

Now, picture one of the “oi” words chained/linked to a made up phrase. . . . a PAIR of. . . ( ) destroyed.. CUp. For example: a PAIR of OInkers deSTROYed the CUP. Now if you’ll hold that made up phrase in SIGHT for a few moments you should have solved the problem of spelling perestroika correctly.

So, in essence, when there is a word you don’t know how to spell, change it to a picture, then chain the picture to words containing the letters that you usually misspell. Voila! Now you have no excuse to ever misspell a word more than once!

Taken From: Mega Memory Book