http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2009/07/09/teling-peple-howe-too-spellr-rite/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:11:15 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2009/07/09/teling-peple-howe-too-spellr-rite/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Down and Out of Sài Gòn Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:36:12 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/?p=1510#comment-407 I see I just wrote "their us" instead of "their use". Would their software have caught the error? I see I just wrote “their us” instead of “their use”. Would their software have caught the error?

]]> http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2009/07/09/teling-peple-howe-too-spellr-rite/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Down and Out of Sài Gòn Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:34:46 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/?p=1510#comment-406 The spellr.us folk may be spelling pedants, but their us of grammar leaves me uneasy. Take this sentence from their front page: "9/10 websites have spelling errors". It took me a couple of seconds to comprehend what they were trying to say. The spellr.us folk may be spelling pedants, but their us of grammar leaves me uneasy. Take this sentence from their front page: “9/10 websites have spelling errors”. It took me a couple of seconds to comprehend what they were trying to say.

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