BBC News The Word Matters project image captionThomas says bosses and directors have been "very understanding" Thomas left school at 16 and went to catering college because he wanted a vocation that wouldn't need strong literacy skills. A test at the college showed he had the spelling age of an eight-year-old and the reading age of an 11-year-old. Now a head chef in Cardiff at the age of 34, he runs a kitchen, but still feels flustered if he ever has to write in front of anyone. Leaving cards at work, he says, are his "worst nightmare". "People don't mind, people understand, if you just ask ...