Kan Anyone Spel These Dayes?!?

[Houston Canary 0]

Murphy''s Law, what can go wrong, will?

[Chunky Norwich 0]

[quote user="Coelho"]I''m an editor, proof-reader and writer by profession, so it does irritate me when posts are riddled with poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. However, there are other areas of my life in which I probably have much lower standards than other people, so it would be a bit hypocritical to lay into people whose English isn''t as strong as my own. As long as the general sense of a post can be understood, that''s good enough for me.

And I just had to point out to Chunky Norwich – ''stadiums'' is perfectly acceptable; check the dictionary. I prefer ''stadia'' myself, but it''s down to individual preference.

My own personal nightmares are the erroneous apostrophe''s in plural''s (shudder!), and people who say ''less'' when they mean ''fewer''.
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Damn it! I was going to ask you for a proof-reading reference only to discover you name-checked me for my grammar [:''(]. While I''m checking the dictionary, I''ll also look up ''irony'' and ''bo**ocks!''

I''ll still use ''stadia'' though I think. As well as ''different from'' and never ending a sentence with a preposition. I''m just a Victorian English-teacher in a twenty-something''s body.

[SwindonCanary 455]

It''s

interesting to note what the human brain can handle.......but drives

the spell checker crazy!

Dont

stumble on these words...  just scan them like you are reading...

and be amazed at the power of the mind.

 

I

cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.  Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch

at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn''t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod

are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit

pclae.  The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a

porbelm.  Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by

istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.  Amzanig huh?

And I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!