Not so much a mispelling, but people really should learn what you do with dead people. You don’t inter them at the funeral home. The front lawn of Gates Kingsley Gates would fill up very quickly if you did that. Inter comes from Latin roots meaning “into the earth”, i.e.=“buried”. Also, you never intern dead people. Corpses make terrible interns, and lack that bright-eyed bushy-tailed aspect you look for in unpaid trainee labor.
(Yeah, I know, “to intern” someone really means to imprison them, but the other meaning of intern had more humorous potential.)
IMO one must allow some lattitude when it comes to proper names. McLaughlin and McLachlan are fairly similar, and people probably think it’s one of those things like Caitlin/Kathleen, that we’re told are actually supposed to be pronounced the same.
While on the subject of proper names I object to willful, bizarre mispronunciations, especially when propagated by the family that owns the name itself. I’m thinking of the singer Mary Gauthier pronounced go-SHAY. Even mine’s not as bad as that.
That looks like bad typing and then not previewing. According to my typing tests, I type about 60wpm. But I personally think I’m a dreadful typist, I’m always making mirror image errors and getting a word all scrambled.
I don’t mind people who can’t spelll correctly, what drives me bonkers is people who WON’T spell correctly.
When a person works in a business or professional (or bisnise :D) setting, really, memos, procedures manuals, things of this nature, if you’re not sure, look it up. And for Goodness sake, PROOF READ.
The gym I work at drives me nuts this way, they allow errors to go out in the damn newsletters to club members. Stupid ones too, like your/you’re type errors. I’m not talking some teensy little one man operation, this is a local chain with 14 locations statewide.
I just had one of those “briney spears” with my deli sandwich today! (For the sake of not leaving a spelling error stand in a bad joke, especially in this thread, I know the adjective form of brine is spelled briny. Spelling, I’m pretty good. Grammar, I do well enough. Until you’re accusing me of run-on sentences with too many commas.)
And there is another one, now that I think about it: grammar. Not grammer.
I just had one of those “briney spears” with my deli sandwich today! (For the sake of not leaving a spelling error stand in a bad joke, especially in this thread, I know the adjective form of brine is spelled briny. Spelling, I’m pretty good. Grammar, I do well enough. Until you’re accusing me of run-on sentences with too many commas.)
And there is another one, now that I think about it: grammar. Not grammer.
Probably going to double-post as a result, but there is a “briny spears” further down on the list. Live and learn.