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  1. I too struggle with this and even after reading it over and correcting several times, may find an error after I’ve posted the comment. Then there’s words I’ve actually spelled correctly, that my tablet ‘corrects’, that I may fail to catch. And finally, my less than perfect written grammar, exemplified by my overuse of commas.

  2. I know you are a poetry lover, neo, so you should enjoy this little ditty, if you haven’t yet seen it.

    Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
    by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar

    I have a spelling checker,
    It came with my PC.
    It plane lee marks four my revue
    Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

    Eye ran this poem threw it,
    Your sure reel glad two no.
    Its vary polished in it’s weigh.
    My checker tolled me sew.

    A checker is a bless sing,
    It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
    It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
    And aides me when eye rime.

    Each frays come posed up on my screen
    Eye trussed too bee a joule.
    The checker pours o’er every word
    To cheque sum spelling rule.

    Bee fore a veiling checker’s
    Hour spelling mite decline,
    And if we’re lacks oar have a laps,
    We wood bee maid too wine.

    Butt now bee cause my spelling
    Is checked with such grate flare,
    Their are know fault’s with in my cite,
    Of nun eye am a wear.

    Now spelling does knot phase me,
    It does knot bring a tier.
    My pay purrs awl due glad den
    With wrapped word’s fare as hear.

    To rite with care is quite a feet
    Of witch won should bee proud,
    And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
    Sew flaw’s are knot aloud.

    Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
    Such soft wear four pea seas,
    And why eye brake in two averse
    Buy righting want too pleas.

  3. I usually let the minor errors pass without comment so that I don’t become too much of a pest. That said, you do a much better job than a lot of other bloggers!

  4. Any time I start typing the words “through”, “though”, or “thorough”, there’s not telling which one I’m going to end up with. “Thought” and “throat” can also get pulled into that vortex.

  5. A common error in US publishing is writing “that” when the right word is “than”.

  6. Nick:

    Not to mention “not” and “no” 🙂 (see the first sentence of your own comment).

    One of the many rules of grammar and spelling discussions is that almost every comment will contain a grammar or spelling error. When I write posts on grammar, I proofread them about ten times. And even then, some are likely to slip by. It’s grammar/spelling karma, or something like that.

  7. `Twas billing, and the smithy toes
    Did gyre and gamble in the wage:
    All missy were the brogues,
    And the mime rats outrage.

    “Beware the Jabber Wick, my son!
    The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
    Beware the Jujube bird, and shun
    The furious Bender Snatch!”

    He took his viral sword in hand:
    Long time the Manxwomen foe he sought –
    So rested he by the Tutu tree,
    And stood awhile in thought.

    And, as in offish thought he stood,
    The Jabber Wick, with eyes of flame,
    Came whiffing through the tulle wood,
    And burbled as it came!

    One, two! One, two! And through and through
    The viral blade went snicker-snack!
    He left it dead, and with its head
    He went galumphing back.

    “And, has thou slain the Jabber Wick?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    O crablouse day! Callow! Allay!’
    He chortled in his joy.

    `Twas billing, and the smithy toes
    Did gyre and gamble in the wage;
    All missy were the brogues
    And the mime rats outrage.

  8. Although not spellchecking, the following shows another foible of the human brain:

    How many F’s does the following passage contain?

    Finished files are the result
    of years of scientific study
    combined with the experience
    of years…

    The answer is 6. Very few people get it right the firs (or even second time)

  9. “Never thought much of a man who could think of only one way to spell a word.” Mark Twain

  10. “The answer is 6. Very few people get it right the firs (or even second time)”
    Or even the spruce time.
    Oh how I pine, for (the missing) t.

  11. I spend FAR more time editing my inconsequential and inane comments than actually writing them.

    And every damn time I hit Submit after gawd-only-knows-how-many-previews, is right when I notice the most glaring errors.

    And that’s just the grammar (because gawd knows the lack of rhetorical acuity is worse, sigh).

    …let alone those that are noticed by others. I’m sure others are better at seeing my mistakes than me. But too polite to say anything. But are laughing. I hear the laughter.

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