And just so we don’t have any back-sliding: The President of the United States is Barack Obama. It’s Liza with a Z, and Barack with a C.
Given how often people get accused of hypocrisy on these boards, you’d think folks would be able to spell it.
It’s not:
hypocracy
hypocrasy
hippocrasy
hipocracy
or any of the half-dozen or so other spellings that i’ve seen at various times around here.
It has to do with spelling because you have NEVER SEEN THE WORD “DIEING”. Because it ISN’T A WORD. Generally speaking, one learns to write by reading what other people write. Decent books don’t have fake words in them if it isn’t on purpose.
For your enjoyment:
<snert> I love how Gaudere always hides in the bushes to jump out and grab you.
For some reason, the Firefox spell-check doesn’t check spelling in the title field. I copy and paste my titles in the post field to make sure.
(And yes, I know a spellchecker isn’t the be-all and end-all for the problem, but at least I try.)
What a bitch! Though I don’t generally get too annoyed at typos and in general, my spelling and grammar suck, so I do tend to be pretty easy-going on things like messageboards, Facebook and chat. When something is official or published, though, then I get annoyed!
What freaks me out is the Germans with imperfect English who use “heroin” for “heroine”. Makes for some really interesting plot summaries.
I dunno, I’ve definitely had some tortes that required reform…
Cemetery, not cematary.
I tought of another biggie: ie and ei in words with German roots.
It’s Wien and Wiener, as in Vienna.
On the other hand, it’s Weimar where Goethe lived.
It’s not that difficult, really, since they’re different sounds: Veen and Veener as opposed to Vymar.
Hmmph. Let’s see YOU spread yourself out on the floor groveling without the benefit of a special gland!
Sorry, but the spelling you protest has been enshrined in a classic pop song, “Mr. Dieingly Sad”, by The Critters, which compounds the horror by making “dieing” into an adverb. Or a compound adjective. Or whatever the hell it is.
I know that, but I always want to spell it ‘alchohol’ or something like that. Why is that?
Also, I don’t have spell check here, and so every time I have to spell ‘necessary’, I have to go to freakin’ research it.
Meh, if it was good enough for The Bard…
Is it really that hard to run your title through Google’s built in spell check?
No he didn’t. You don’t violate Gaudere’s law any more than you violate the Ideal Gas Law.
I may be a grammar nazi with slight prescriptivist tendencies, but I disagree with the OP’s premise here. It’s certainly possible to be an expert in some subject, who deserves to be listened to, but not have a 100% half-Nelson grip on the orthography of English. How about foreign astronomers and physicists, for example?