“The band Lynyrd Skynyrd came up with their name as a mocking tribute to Leonard Skinner, a physical-education teacher at Robert E. Lee High School who was notorious for strictly enforcing the school’s policy against boys having long hair.  The more distinctive spelling was adopted before they released their first album titled (pronounced ‘lĕh-’nérd ‘skin-’nérd).”

**How amazing is it that when you read the “pronounced” spelling of a word (the spelling with all the accents), your mouth magically spits out the correct pronunciation?  I don’t understand why we can’t agree to spell all the words in the English language this way, and we wont even need to include the accents.  Ou-er kur-uhnt spel-ing sis-tuhm iz fuh-king out-dey-tid.