The Agony of Poor Spelling

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

We shall never surrender, Birdy. Besides, after five minutes in England during the season of mists and mellow sogginess you'll begin to wonder if it was worth coming at all.

However, I would like to point out, that the English language is phonetically challenging.

We've already been through the arguments concerning occasional small lapses. This thread is about the really heinous crimes against literacy, such as mis-spelled thread titles, which are indicators of a lazy and cavalier attitude towards writing.

Birdland, perhaps we Yanks, should teach the Brits how to drive on the RIGHT side of the road, while we're at it.

That's all right. We find it very easy to remember that oncoming lorries denote the wrong side of the road, regardless of what other meanings the word for that side may possess.

I'm nominating "ppl in fanfiction".

I second that motion.

This post was composed without recourse to a dictionary or a spell-checking program.