Y'know, I was a pretty good speller all through school, and I scored pretty decently on my ACT's (not super genius or anything, but well above average), and the highest of those scores was in reading and vocabulary. Yet the older I get, the more often I find myself referring to a dictionary, not only to check the spelling of a word, but to make sure I'm using it correctly. I used to tease my mom whenever she'd check with me on how to spell a word, and she always said that you tend to not retain that knowledge as you get older. I guess she was right, bugger it all.