Spelling

[Eric Cantona]

I know the procedure on this site is to not draw attention to spelling mistakes just for the sake of it, so I won't. But having just read through a few posts, virtually none of which were spelt 100% correctly, I have a question. Does nobody care that non employees reading these forums must think that we are all a load of thick bastards?

If your that good and educated why are you working for Royal Mail?

[ElvisGaddafi]

I know the procedure on this site is to not draw attention to spelling mistakes just for the sake of it, so I won't. But having just read through a few posts, virtually none of which were spelt 100% correctly, I have a question. Does nobody care that non employees reading these forums must think that we are all a load of thick bastards?

If your that good and educated why are you working for Royal Mail?

I didn't say I was good?? and educated, only that I can spell. And, by the way, it's you're not your.

[ElvisGaddafi]

I NOW WHOT TOU MEEN GETS ON ME NERRVES WHEN PEPLE DONT SPEEL WRIGHT

I see what you did there. And people say that comedy is dead!

[krussel]

My spelling is quite poor but if i have time i will correct it. Its just the same on other forums as well.

I post on a watch collectors forum and some of the guys on there work in professional industries and can be a bit snooty, however their spelling is no better than ours.

[rhino49]

My observation is that the great majority of words on this forum are spelt correctly.
In posting on here I don't think any of us are expecting a literary award for our efforts.

They are all spelt correctly (apart from spelt) - they just end up in the wrong post or wrong sentence !!!
We need a lost or disabled word mod to ensure they are placed correctly or assisted to produce their intended meaning.

[George door to dawes]

Suppose you have to take into account we are employed to deliver letters not to write them Who cares if we can spell on an internet forum? I think if the general public were to stumble across this website they would be more shocked about what we have to put up with than our English proficiency. English is also an evolving language spoken by many different regions in the UK and many different cultures around the world so just because something is spelled differently in the oxford dictionary doesn't mean we are all retards!

Grammar Nazi alert

Sorry but I just had too..............................TBH my spelling is not the best but I have only little things to amuse myself

yeah cant argue with that one school boy error making spelling mistakes in a thread about spelling!

[Lounge Lizard]

I know the procedure on this site is to not draw attention to spelling mistakes just for the sake of it, so I won't. But having just read through a few posts, virtually none of which were spelt 100% correctly, I have a question. Does nobody care that non employees reading these forums must think that we are all a load of thick bastards?

If your that good and educated why are you working for Royal Mail?

There's many a reason why we might be working for Royal Mail, had enough of the rat race, want to be outside more of the day, want something a bit more worthwhile or challenging than pen pushing.

[Dorset Plodder]

Correct me if I'm wrong but we do have a spell checker on this Forum. If you get a red squiggly line under a word all you have to do is Right Click and it'll give you options for the correct spelling. I do believe in trying to write properly, just a matter of personal pride, BUT I've meet a few lads that couldn't even read or write, in previous lives, that were good mates!

Yes we should strive to do our best, BUT think of times gone by when the majority of working class folk couldn't even read! Try not to judge too harshly.

[Pinky 1]

Correct me if I'm wrong but we do have a spell checker on this Forum. If you get a red squiggly line under a word all you have to do is Right Click and it'll give you options for the correct spelling. I do believe in trying to write properly, just a matter of personal pride, BUT I've meet a few lads that couldn't even read or write, in previous lives, that were good mates!

Yes we should strive to do our best, BUT think of times gone by when the majority of working class folk couldn't even read! Try not to judge too harshly.

I think that spell checker you mention is from your internet browser, not from this site.
I didn't get one on Internet Explorer, but I've got one on Google Chrome

[taurus88]

I know the procedure on this site is to not draw attention to spelling mistakes just for the sake of it, so I won't. But having just read through a few posts, virtually none of which were spelt 100% correctly, I have a question. Does nobody care that non employees reading these forums must think that we are all a load of thick bastards?

If your that good and educated why are you working for Royal Mail?

I'm a reasonably educated man, yet I work for Royal Mail. I'm sure there are many different kinds of people working within RM for all manner of reasons. I work for RM because the choice I had was to accept the job, or else face more months of unemployment. I think it was a pretty straightforward choice in retrospect.

Regarding spell-checkers, I have one built in to Firefox, but I generally ignore it because I am lazy.

[ElvisGaddafi]

I know the procedure on this site is to not draw attention to spelling mistakes just for the sake of it, so I won't. But having just read through a few posts, virtually none of which were spelt 100% correctly, I have a question. Does nobody care that non employees reading these forums must think that we are all a load of thick bastards?

If your that good and educated why are you working for Royal Mail?

I'm a reasonably educated man, yet I work for Royal Mail. I'm sure there are many different kinds of people working within RM for all manner of reasons. I work for RM because the choice I had was to accept the job, or else face more months of unemployment. I think it was a pretty straightforward choice in retrospect.

Yes. I'm sure that there are many reasonably/highly educated and intelligent people working for RM for, as you say, all manner of reasons. I think the fact that Eric Cantona suggests that all RM workers are poorly educated idiots probably says more about him than it does them.

[George door to dawes]

I know the procedure on this site is to not draw attention to spelling mistakes just for the sake of it, so I won't. But having just read through a few posts, virtually none of which were spelt 100% correctly, I have a question. Does nobody care that non employees reading these forums must think that we are all a load of thick bastards?

If your that good and educated why are you working for Royal Mail?

I'm a reasonably educated man, yet I work for Royal Mail. I'm sure there are many different kinds of people working within RM for all manner of reasons. I work for RM because the choice I had was to accept the job, or else face more months of unemployment. I think it was a pretty straightforward choice in retrospect.

Regarding spell-checkers, I have one built in to Firefox, but I generally ignore it because I am lazy.

I have Firefox and doesnt work for some reason even though its turned on in the option menu.

Why is spelling being discussed as a indicator of intelligence anyway? Albert Einstein had dislexia so that throws that theory out of the window. And intelligent or not we all have to eat and pay the bills so whats wrong with working in Royal Mail? I know a few lads at the office with degrees doesnt mean anything when the economy is screwed and all jobs are scarce.

[ElvisGaddafi]

I know the procedure on this site is to not draw attention to spelling mistakes just for the sake of it, so I won't. But having just read through a few posts, virtually none of which were spelt 100% correctly, I have a question. Does nobody care that non employees reading these forums must think that we are all a load of thick bastards?

If your that good and educated why are you working for Royal Mail?

I'm a reasonably educated man, yet I work for Royal Mail. I'm sure there are many different kinds of people working within RM for all manner of reasons. I work for RM because the choice I had was to accept the job, or else face more months of unemployment. I think it was a pretty straightforward choice in retrospect.

Regarding spell-checkers, I have one built in to Firefox, but I generally ignore it because I am lazy.

I have Firefox and doesnt work for some reason even though its turned on in the option menu.

Why is spelling being discussed as a indicator of intelligence anyway? Albert Einstein had dislexia so that throws that theory out of the window. And intelligent or not we all have to eat and pay the bills so whats wrong with working in Royal Mail? I know a few lads at the office with degrees doesnt mean anything when the economy is screwed and all jobs are scarce.

So you're saying that most of the posties on this site suffer from dyslexia?

[wiganpostie]

One of the problems with the Internet is that it can popularise a common misspelling of a word to such an extent that you start to believe that the misspelling isn't erroneous. "Definate" is a good example.

[RedBagMan]

Reminds me of a quote by Eric Morecambe ...

"I'm playing all the right notes ... but not necessarily in the right order"

(My particular 'bête noire' is "should of" instead of "should have", and all other variations of same ...)