My mushroom post made it onto the WordPress front page yesterday – bringing a nice spike in my stats and with any luck some new readers who will stick around (hello!). And also exposed to the whole world the fact that I consistently and repeatedly can’t bloody spell ‘chanterelles’. I blame Google, naturally, because half the internet can’t spell chanterelles either so it didn’t did-you-mean me when I searched under the wrong spelling. But then half the internet can’t consistently put an apostrophe in the correct place so that’s no excuse. And as someone who pedantically punctuates her text messages I really should know better.
I’d go back and correct it but it’s too late – the damage is done. I’m leaving it up there in all its misspelt glory as a reminder to myself that the spell-checker in my toolbar is not there for decoration. And I did at least manage to identify them correctly, even if I couldn’t spell them…
September 3, 2008 at 12:53 pm |
Nothing pedantic about correctly-punctuating text messages. That’s why the punctuation characters are there, after all.
You should correct the spelling, really: you don’t want to add your authoritative voice to the wrong spelling, do you?
(And I just had some serious trouble with “authoritative”, I can tell you. Firefox 3 doesn’t seem to spellcheck any more.)
September 3, 2008 at 1:06 pm |
I do get the sneaking feeling that semi colons are overdoing it for text messages; they’re there for the winking smiley faces, surely.
I use the Google toolbar for spell checking. When I remember
September 3, 2008 at 2:35 pm |
Erm, and here’s me wondering if you deliberately mis-spelt “Fame” in the title of this post since you were talking about spelling?
September 3, 2008 at 2:38 pm |
hmm. Am I going to have to flag my jokes more obviously?
September 3, 2008 at 4:26 pm |
The good thing about the Firefox spell-checker is that it is automatic. It also doesn’t think “Firefox” is a word.
September 3, 2008 at 4:30 pm |
he he. I hear that the blogger one doesn’t think ‘blog’ is a word either.
September 3, 2008 at 4:59 pm |
I recently had a similar spelling incident over Borlotti Beans – there are about a dozen different spellings on google!
September 4, 2008 at 10:31 am |
This is why nobody posts about brocol… about broccoll… about calabrese, I reckon
September 4, 2008 at 4:48 pm |
Lol, sorry Disgruntled, i was having a baaaad day!
September 4, 2008 at 4:59 pm |
That’s all right – and if some bugger had only pointed out my typos on the original post, none of this would have happened