Re: OT: Spelling errors

Speaking of spelling in general, instead of in reaction to anyone's 
message, it might be an okay time to say that, having been a copy 
editor most of my life, the common error that irritates me most is 
the confusion of its and it's.  Which is pretty easy to remember:
It's is a shortened form of it is.  Without the apostrophe is the 
possessive its.  Its form, its branching....

So now I've said it.  Call me compulsive.  Thirty years of dealing 
with so common an error takes ITS toll.

Patricia Brooks


--- In iris-talk@y..., RYFigge@a... wrote:
>  Wendy,   It isn't that we can't spell,  it is just that our 
fingers don't 
> cooperate!  I guess I would be the Queen of the Rough Copiers     I 
used to 
> do the rough copies for my husband because the secretaries couldn' 
read his 
> writing (when he didn't use a dictating machine - don't forget this 
was 30 
> years plus ago!)   I find that the "thing" that pushes to the next 
line is 
> just above the cap key on this laptop, and that confuses my little 
fingetr 
> all the time.  And I also get the o and p ,  no, my finger gets 
them mixed up 
>  andthe delete key for going forward gets confused with \\\\]]] 
(whatever 
> they are) and the t and r get confused if I move my hands for a 
second, and h 
> has a hard time too.  I'm not a hunt and peck typist, but a self-
taught one 
> with hands in proper? position!    My grandchildren were horrified 
with my  
> typing results when I first started on this monster, because they 
had high 
> opinions of my spelling ability, so now I try to read what I write  
and 
> correct before sending, but ! ! !   Rosalie nr Baltimore, USA  zone 
7   
> ryfigge@a...      (My  other problem is  I aways seem to have 
something to 
> write that doesn't conform to "subject"  )


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