Incorrect spelling

[Chapel]

Is anyone else bothered by the apparent failure of our educational systems? Basic grammar is a thing of the past, and correct spelling now seems to be optional in both written and printed text.

[B00]

This is brought home when you check your child's homework and the spelling is terrible. When I used to point them out to my daughter (when she was at school....errr....a long time ago!) she used to reply that her teachers were not bothered about bad spelling or grammar at all!

Hence she is now older and her spelling still makes me wince.

(and do you realise even though I've checked through my post, I will be mortified if there's a typo in it!)

[mycatis]

My spelling probably isn't perfect but I can't bear to write a text message with shortened words, I even put punctuation in it, (much to my friends amusement)  I do it on CB quite often but usually only when I've been writing a lot or are being silly

[puttycake]

I do typos, everyone does, but i try to use proper spelling and grammar. Have you noiced how many illiterate sign writers there are working these days? And magazine editors - "Hobby's" Magazine anyone? No it's not a kiddies' comic, it's an adult title about ... hobbies! DOH!  

[JackDanielsU]

Dunno wot u r talking about. I have been so well edukated its untroo. Skool wuz the bestest dayz of my life

[gen2]

I don't think teachers are entirely to blame for not correcting mistakes although there was a phase when it was thought that making pupils concentrate on spelling and grammar would stifle creativity. As mentioned above, texting is also partly to blame.

In my opinion another cause is the ubiqitous spell checker.  People don't bother to learn spellings because they think it will be corrected for them.  The truth is that these checkers are not foolproof and the user can often select the wrong word and not realise it.

[Narolines]

In the hope of reducing your blood pressure, Puttycake, "Hobby's" is in fact the name of a company which markets all kinds of hobby-related stuff and also publishes the magazine to which you refer; so, though it may be clumsy and unattractive, it's not actually grammatically wrong in this instance.  I suppose it's even conceivable that the firm was founded by someone with the surname "Hobby" who decided to cash in on their lineage........no, perhaps not........

[Aschenbach]

I searched answebank for 'definately and definate' and there were 80 references (in the questions alone).

Definitely room for improvement.

[Aschenbach]

(Forgive my spelling of answerbank. It wasn't an ironic joke)

[Grunty]

Narolines - If that is the same company that I dealt with as a child and teenager (centuries ago) it is indeed a family concern with the surname Hobby.

Some of the irritating errors would not be seen by a spellchecker.  Access and excess, continual and continuous, principal and principle, historic and historical etc.

[Eels]

Bothered?  It aches my very soul.