I was born into a family of "Yankees". We moved back to the south (thank Gawd) when I was five. (Okay, not the "real" south, but south Florida anyway)

I was born into a family of "Yankees". We moved back to the south (thank Gawd) when I was five. (Okay, not the "real" south, but south Florida anyway)
I remember my older sister coming home from school in a fit. She had lost the spelling bee on a three syllable word. Dock-tore-in it seems was NOT spelled (as she thought) DOCTRINE ???

"Young lady", they told her. "Any fool knows that it's spelled DOCTORING
http://www.spellingbee.com/