ORIGINAL: HunkaJunk
I think spell checkers have ruined us. I remember back when we didn't have all these gizmos, I was a much better speller than I am now. Or maybe I'm just getting old??
I respectfully disagree. I've always been a fairly good speller, but there were still a few words that I had trouble with. Since I've been using a computer to write, it became easy to use a spell checker rather than to "Go look it up". After repeatedly having a spell checker correct my commonly misspelled words, I have learned to spell them correctly.
It's the people who DON'T use spell-check that repeatedly misspell words.
Now I use it more to catch typos than spelling.
ORIGINAL: outdoorhunting
I've noticed a lot of the bad spelling is from people in our own country. The people from overseas, (usually) have better spelling & gramar than us. '' I think it's embarassing. There's a couple of guys that have to be total idiots by the way they spell.
Yea, it's a sad commentary on the state of our education system. And BTW, it's "grammar" and "embarrassing"
But those (to me) are acceptable misspellings. I have seen things like, "Hammydown" instead of "Hand-me-down" and "I mise well" instead of, "I might as well"