McWriters

I realize it’s just a little sign for a basketball tournament. But, is it really unreasonable to expect a sign that is hung within a school to contain the correct spelling of such an important word? I certainly don’t advocate reliance upon word processor program spell checkers, but at least they will alert you that [...]

I saw this on Facebook this morning and I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to use it. I think the best thing to do is just let it speak for itself:

Definition of Faux Pas:
(fō pä’)
A social blunder.
[French : faux, false + pas, step.]
Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, [...]

“So tired of rich people forking over $6k to cry at #TED for 3 days a year. Their so moved but their just their to do business networking.”
This was actually tweeted on Sunday by someone who has almost 95,000 people that follow their updates on Twitter. Unbelievable! He’s zero for three in using the correct word [...]

This can’t possibly be good news for that school district…

This past Saturday I received a letter from a prominent university in Spokane, WA. The letter, on official university letterhead, detailed a piano sale from their music department. The letter was fine…until the very last sentence. At that point, they blew it.
Credit cads? Sigh…
This is the problem with relying on a spellchecker. The word ‘cads’ [...]

My laptop ran one of its annoying updates the other day and this unsightly little dialog box appeared on my screen. My initial reaction was, “good grief, I can’t believe they missed that mistake.” My second reaction was, “hey, I need to save that for the blog!” So, I quickly did a screen capture and [...]