Eye thank taht wee shuld half a thraed soemday wear wee mispel evree wird jast two drvie the speiling Nazis crzay.
Ewe no waht maykes me agnry?
Wen I tpye on my Andriod it haz selph corection softwhere taht atuomaitcly corects werds taht I tpye corectly and it putts in a werd taht I dindn’t evan whant. Taht rally Pisces mehoff.
The following is a letter to the editor from the Times of Trenton, July 14, 1998. I have the author’s permission to post to rhf—and she had me correct a correction the newspaper’s typesetters had made, as well as a non-spellchecker mistake they had introduced!
The Shortcomings Spellcheck
I would like to apply fore a job as an editor of your paper. I halve a computer, and it has spellcheck, and it wood seam that this is awl I really knead.
I had originally intended too dew this last weak, but then I happened to reed my horoscope in The Times, and it said: “Put on the reigns before you lose control of everything. Of coarse, once I red this, I gnu it wood be better to weight four a more auspicious thyme.
Aye thought at first that maybe I should caul, but then I decided it mite be better to right. I truly believe that I would be a grate editor—know matter watt—rein or shine. Eye wood make accuracy inn spelling the mane ingredient of my editorial rain. Just to prove my hart is in the rite place, I maid sure this letter was perfect—I ran it threw Spellcheck.
I really due wont this job, and I no I could bee a reel asset, butt if yew don’t higher mi, I won’t whale.
[signed]
Before I retired, I was in a position to hire people. I read their resumes, and if I found one spelling error, they were automatically put in the “do not hire” pile. If you choose to expose your laziness and ignorance for the world to see, more power to you.
I make spelling/grammar errors too but when offered a tool to reduce them, I take it. Your unwillingness to ‘push a button’ shows me you would not go the last step in a project. A similar lack of detail is what cost the lives of a number of astronauts in the Challenger disaster. I worked on that shuttle and it pained me to see the death and waste of money that resulted from a failure to understand the need to follow up.