Spelling Words by Cari FerraroSpelling Words is the last of a series of three books to explore the meaning of the word "spell." My search for the sacred in Western calligraphy led me to ponder its appearance in words such as "gospel" ("god's spell"). I discovered that a thousand years ago, to spell meant to tell a story, rhyming to remember the correct order. Later, when stories were written down, spelling began to mean the proper ordering of letters. The magic of verbal charms