Ok neato - now I had to think a little extry on that last coded message. That is amazing though, that you only need the correct number of letters in the middle, along with the right first and last letters, and I could still understand. Weird. I goiss it's bibuaze i'm so smivt?

Oh, I was always a good speller in grade school, and was extremely disappointed to learn after grade school that there were such things as spelling bees, and our school didn't participate in them. I think my spelling ability is related to my somewhat "photographic" memory - I can tell that a word doesn't look right. (When asked to spell a word, I'm best off if i can write it down, but I can picture it in my head if necessary.)