McWriters

“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 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 [...]

My daughter discovered this sign recently on a local bike path here in Coeur d’Alene. The ironic thing about this particular sign is that it is near the front of a school (Woodland Middle School, by the Comcast Building)! You would think/hope that one of the teachers would have called someone about the error on [...]

Why is proofreading important? Here’s a great example of why you need to double check your work. It’s also a good example of a poor printing company. A company who produces material for other organizations really should be responsible enough to double check the content they are printing. Five minutes of time reviewing the project [...]

There, their, they’re
Your, you’re
Here, hear
We, wee
Add, ad
Tea, tee
Ate, eight
Seas, sees, seize
Mall, maul
Awl, all
Aye, eye, I
Flair, flare
Lone, loan
Sail, sale
Stair, stare
Minor, miner
Tacks, tax
Tale, tail
Heel, heal, he’ll
Hymn, him
Heroin, heroine
Sole, soul
Write, right, rite
Medal, Metal, Meddle
Seam, seem

The list goes on and on. The mistakes people make with them seems endless too.

If you simply rely on your computer’s spell checker to [...]