I just want to say, if I see anyone not using spell check around here, with a misspelling that I can identify at a glance, I'll be taking you to task. Your name is mud around these parts.
Nurses with better spelling than mine, on the other hand, are obviously anal retentive perfectionists. Or else they are using spell check, the great equalizer.
Obvious grammatical errors will be pointed out immediately. And, I expect you educated people to know that:
Lose and Loose drive me absolutely insane!! I see it on here everyday. I do think that autocorrect is stealing my spelling powers, as weak as they are. It seems I question myself on the easiest of words now.
I will (shamefully) admit that I spelled "receive" wrong for years.. It's embarassing to admit that as an adult I forgot the i before e except after c rule.
I think it's high time for the word "whom" to be put out to pasture. It needs to go on the list of officially archaic English words.
Why? "To whom does this belong to?" "Who are you?" Just because someone doesn't understand in which context to use certain words, does not validate the removal of said words. :)
Why? "To whom does this belong to?" "Who are you?" Just because someone doesn't understand in which context to use certain words, does not validate the removal of said words. :)
It is disuse that makes certain words archaic. When is the last time you heard anyone utter the phrase "To whom does this belong"?
One of my nursing profs is perhaps the worst speller of anyone I've met who has a college degree. It's really bad. She'll mix up words like mnemonic/pneumatic. Fortunately she's pretty good with the skills stuff.
It is disuse that makes certain words archaic. When is the last time you heard anyone utter the phrase "To whom does this belong"?
Today in class. When certain words are not being used and are being replaced with words that make absolutely no sense, it scares me that the people responsible are those who just don't care about the language. Ever heard: "I'm finna eat that! "? Or the fact that AN actually wrote "conversate" on this site?
Some actually said, "finna"?!? I always just assumed people typed "finna" in the context you wrote because they meant "gonna" because the g and f and the o and i are together are the keyboard... OMG
I always just assumed people 
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Lose and Loose drive me absolutely insane!! I see it on here everyday. I do think that autocorrect is stealing my spelling powers, as weak as they are. It seems I question myself on the easiest of words now.
I will (shamefully) admit that I spelled "receive" wrong for years..
It's embarassing to admit that as an adult I forgot the i before e except after c rule.