steiroid <<< That still isn’t how you spell steroid, @dxs!
Actually, the way she pronounced could have been a clue. My poor son was horrible, just horrible at spelling. We’d spend a lot of time, hanging out on our big, covered front porch, going through his spelling words. “Stee-roid withonee” might have been how I taught him to spell the word.
“Seperate: SEP, Er, ATE. In SeptembER she ate.”
After we started working together he almost always got 100%.