My dad always maintained he had to sit down and learn by heart every word that he did know how to spell correctly. It never came naturally to him. However, he also used his very logical brain and the Latin and French and Italian he'd learned, to help him spell English words. As I do (well, not the Italian and I'm not sure Spanish helps at all, with its perfect simplicity of spelling), and I've always been a good speller. I do have to think about it but I can usually tell what is a 'correct' spelling and what isn't.
My best friend from school couldn't spell for toffee. She was such a talented non-speller that she could miss-spell the same word in different ways in the same sentence and not notice even if she checked. She got a two-one degree in English even so.
Neither of them were dyslexic.
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