>>>A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was an assembler programmer who spoke hex as almost a second language. At one out of control launch party we actually had a hex spelling bee. Clearly there were not enough women there....
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>>I can remember when "hex" was what The Red Witch threw at baddies :-)
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>That art is called spelling, and is the basis of the local literature.

Spelling is often the basis for the local literature I read too (except for Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban).