I can say with certaintity that even when I was 19 months old and had just learned what a pen was(I know this because my mom was a videocamera nazi) I never spelled the word women "wimen". I'd have given him a bonus point for spelling it wimin, though. wimen is just stupid. i understand when people think that i is the only vowel. for example: someone asked me if they should get their nipils pierced. I was amused.