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With the prevalence of chat-speak, spelling may already be undergoing fundamental changes. That soon there will be a netspeak dictionary to capture and formalize this shorthand, and become an alternative to the Oxford English Dictionary. I hope I am wrong and that tools like speech-to-text will save us.
 
My peeve isn't a spelling error but a usage error. It's the Advice/Advise paradox. When you are arrested you are ADVISED of your rights by the officer that proceeds to ADVISE you of them. If you are seeking ADVICE from someone then they will ADVISE you.
 

luvmysuper

My elbows leak
Staff member
Hough kan innyone mizpell anithing theze daze wyth spellcheck?

A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
 

luvmysuper

My elbows leak
Staff member
Hough kan innyone mizpell anithing theze daze wyth spellcheck?

A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
 
A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

This is excellent. But one day I do see computer dictating perfectly for us. One day.
 
A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Oddly enough, this poem^^ took me three times longer to read, than the blob of misspelled words below.
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I guess using the wrong word is a lot more damaging to a sentence than misspelling the right word.
 
I don't misspell it but I've noticed many people have a problem spelling "Merkur" and most commonly spells it like Murker or Merker :scared:
 
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