The Great One, Wayne Gretkzy: What Misspelled Jerseys Say About Learning to Read

A friend has sent me a post about misspelled names on the uniforms of professional athletes. It’s an old post but new to me. Such errors are amusing because they seem so colossal (shouldn’t someone have caught that??) but also familiar (who among us has not made similar ones?). They are also of interest because they illustrate some basic facts about reading and spelling that are relevant to…