spelling and voice

Joe-the-office-roomie pointed me to this great op ed piece about spelling.

Weren't dictionaries and spell checker created because variant spelling got too confusing? I mean, really!

And this was a neat article on writers' voices. It's perfectly true - sometimes the voice you hear isn't the one you expect. I've heard Dorothy Parker's voice, and it sounds a bit shrill and harsh to me. And Sylvia Plath's has an ever-so-slight warble-in-the-throat sound.