Inertial Invites on Nostr: James Monroe couldn't spell his own name. True story. There's nothing particularly ...

James Monroe couldn't spell his own name. True story. There's nothing particularly wrong with being illiterate, and many people have become successful with literacy problems, and I'm not judging at all, but James Monroe wasn't illiterate, he just couldn't spell his own name. He blamed this on a brain injury he'd suffered when he was a child, but it was actually because he never bothered to learn how to spell his name. That says something about his character, I think. So, when he had to sign his name, he made a bunch of flourishes and hoped that no one would notice.