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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOh the irony... "Apparently, 80 percent of Americans think their good spellers"
http://www.dailydot.com/lol/people-think-they-can-spell-but-actually-they-cant/This one is for the Grammar Nazis.
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Oh the irony... "Apparently, 80 percent of Americans think their good spellers" (Original Post)
Glassunion
Aug 2015
OP
ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)1. Tsk, tsk
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)2. Oh, no. I hate spelling errors.
I suppose that makes me a grammar nazi, but really, there is no excuse for being incapable of spelling the words of your native language correctly.
ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)6. What drives me crazy is...
when people misspell "its" as "it's"
I see it everywhere!!!
Along with, "Your welcome"
And many more
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)13. You welcome
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)7. Since I am a former copy6 editor, I am a grammar nazi.
If you are unsure of the spelling, DU has a spell check feature.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)14. Read your subject line again, copy editor
eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)15. Hen3ry ? Is that you ? nt
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)3. whoredurves!
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)5. Is that a verb or a noun?
They both frighten me.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. Their probly rite, yoo no.
Rilly. Series heer.
3catwoman3
(23,943 posts)8. Spell check has its limitations.
Ode To Spell Check
I have a spelling chequer.
It came with my PC.
It planely marks four my revue,
Miss takes eye cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
And I'm shore yore glad two no.
It's wonder full in every whey.
My checquer tolled mi sew.
(I wish I could take credit for this delightful bbit, but alas, I saw it somewhere years ago.
I have a spelling chequer.
It came with my PC.
It planely marks four my revue,
Miss takes eye cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
And I'm shore yore glad two no.
It's wonder full in every whey.
My checquer tolled mi sew.
(I wish I could take credit for this delightful bbit, but alas, I saw it somewhere years ago.
hay rick
(7,584 posts)9. "their good spellers"
Maybe "they're" not...LOL.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)10. Where are they? Point them out to me!
ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)11. Only he spells his name G-r-a-m-m-e-r
Figures. He's a repuke, you know
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)12. Get a Brain, Morans!