I’m a stickler for spelling. In fact, I find great irony that in an electronic world where we communicate by text so much (more than ever?) that the care for and interest in correct spelling is seemingly at an all time low.

Various kinds of misspells irk me to varying degrees. Simple typos are easily overlooked. In fact, I’m quite a typo guy myself. A little secret about anything I may post – the more typos, the more emotion. When my posts are logical, methodical, thought out and left-brained, spelling tends to be in line. When they’re emotional, heartfelt, heated or something I feel strongly about, you’ll probably see more typos.

I’m not even that pissy over simple things like the “there, they’re, their” or “your, you’re” thing even if it shows a serious lack of language understanding.

I’m most peeved by misspells that reveal how a person incorrectly says a word – “rediculous” comes to mind as an example. I just want to yell, “It’s ridiculous, you fucking dolt…with an I! You know, a form of the word, ridicule!?”

The absolute worst is that the complete lack of care for proper spelling has made it’s way to what would normally be mainstream outlets. I see tons of newspaper articles with spelling errors. Like people who are supposed to be legitimate writers are misspelling words.

To make it even worse one place I get forced to see it a lot is the Road Runner page I have set as my home page. You know – the standard generic page that all ISPs seem to have with news, weather, horoscopes and crap like that. Literally, like once a week there’ll be something that just makes me shake my head. Tonight was the final straw. Enjoy this cropped screen capture I snagged a few minutes ago:

It’s clearly not a typo – long way between the B and P keys. It’s clearly not correct. It’s clearly the result of someone who incorrectly says the word thinking it’s spelled just as incorrectly as they say it.

Adobts. (for a real treat google it)

Jesus fucking Christ.