Try reading Thomas Jefferson’s letters as he wrote them. The obsession with spelling is a fairly modern thing.
I made some T-shirts for a friend’s kid’s spelling-bee team with this quote:
It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
~Andrew Jackson
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"If they can't picture me with a knife, forcing them to strip in an alley, I don't want any part of it. It's humiliating." - windsock