I’m really thankful that I had such a great English teacher for my last two years of high school. She was witty, sarcastic, and borderline bitchy, but BOY you understood the language, and how to use it when you left her classroom. Or at least I hope so. (Makes mental note to run spell check on this post before publishing). Yes, she was a cool teacher.
So, thanks to her, I would say I generally have a good grasp of correct spelling (and spelling things the American way, is simply different, not wrong by the way) and of pronunciation (oh crap – anybody know how to spell pronounciation?). Unfortunately this has also left me with a very critical eye, and it pains me NO END to see in our local media i.e. newspapers how things are consistently spelled incorrectly (heck, is it spelled, or spelt? Damnit, where are you Mrs C when I need you!??) ANYWAY, as I was saying, I hate bad spelling. It bugs me that there are people who have jobs, where you’d think that spelling would be a key job skill, like a newspaper copy editor etc and there are spelling mistakes in the copy. It’s just not write. Ha haa. I meant right.
Even worse, if you run a restaurant, for gods sake, explain to your staff that when someone orders Quesadillas, and pronounces it correctly, saying Kay-SAH-Dee-YAH, that your staff don’t say back to the customer, “oh yes, the KWESADILLAS?”. Don’t even get me started on Tortillas. Or Renault. Or Peugeot. Maybe these companies should consider letting their employees do an online university degree to improve their work?
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