Spelng & Grama

I was in the newsagent this morning & overheard a lady about my age telling the owner about yesterday's paper, within she found some spelling errors.

I joined in to say it is not only newspapers, I am reading a book "The Power of One" and I keep finding spelling and grammatical errors within its hollowed pages.

This is not the first nor the last book I have & will read with these.

Austar often has them on screen.
And I also find them in the newspaper.

I even followed the back of a bus with a full size ad for a Internet Provider.
There was only a handful of words on this ad with most of the ad a family of Afro hair do's. There in colour was the main words 'Internet rovider'.

Now I would not say that I am brilliant at English, though I did come top of my class in year 12 English.
Though I am sure that was because I did not just looked up Miss Flett's dress all the time but also listened to her voice, while the rest of the all boy class only watched the show.

If we finally get our young to read, the Newspaper, a Book and if only the TV screen shouldn't we hope that with all the editors and others proof reading, that what was presented to us be correct.
If not they will think what is written is correct and the slow downfall slides on.

A cause of this error slide is the trust we put in 'Spell Checker' we happily push the button and correct what ever is presented, shock & horror, it misses words, the word could be spelt right, but have the wrong context.

We need to look and READ what we write before sending.

Though I am sure I did not have this talent before, it has only grown with age, but here is another example of me saying this did not happen InMyDay