Comedy of Errors

November 11, 2011 / Melody Smith /

I confess. I am a grammar snob. And it has gotten much worse since I joined Facebook. If I see one more “that is a great ideal”, or “their is a bird outside” status update, I will scream. Even Word corrected the wrong choice of word when I was writing this post. If Clippy knows better, why don’t educated professionals?

So when Grammar Monkeys, a blog by The Wichita Eagle copy desk, released a taxonomy of typos recently, I was fascinated. Titled “When spell-check won’t help: How typos sneak into writing,” the post referenced words that when misspelled, still make words. Which means, what you really need is a grammar-check, not a spell-check.

This interesting piece was found on The Christian Science Monitor in their article, “The wages of typos – in pounds and pence.”

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

1 Comment

  1. Alice on November 11, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    Good piece. Embrace and revel in grammar snobbery! Change from evolution in usage is one thing, but this doesn’t deserve that level of (begrudging) respect. Grammar snobs, unite in pride in efforts to maintain honorable linguistic traditions.