How does the internet encourage bad spelling ?
2009-11-25 06:25:46 I’m a bit of a spelling fascist, but still have blind spots over words like “privilege” or “separate” that cause me grief and shame; indeed, an inability to reliably spell words like “embarrassment” has long been a source of embarrassment to the English-speaking world. The Spelling Society reckons it’s nothing short of a curse, and one that’s not even our fault; it stems from a mass of illogical inconsistencies that were firmly cemented by Dr Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language in 1755…
