Spelling. I was really bad at spelling. So one day on the bus, about 20 years ago, I decided to count the numbers of letters in words, assigning them differen

Spelling. I was really bad at spelling. So one day on the bus, about 20 years ago, I decided to count the numbers of letters in words, assigning them different weights depending on being capitals or not. Why 9? It seemed fun at the time to have a secondary goal.