It's fascinating how people who 'can spell' are amazed at those who can't, "You've seen these words thousands of times, how can you possibly not know hoe to spell them?" and conversely people who 'can't spell' are bewildrerd that those you can have somehow memorized the almost completely arbitrary spellings of thousands of words in the English language that are not not spelled phonetically. I remember my teachers shaking their heads in wonder at me "You're intelligent, you read voraciously, it's obviously not sheer lazyness - how can it be possible that you can't spell?" I dunno. I just can't.