wy cant peeple spel? I have recently discovered that people have a real issue with spelling. Yeah, I realize this is an epiphany that most people probably had in third grade when that fat kid lost the spelling bee because he thought "table" had a "w" in there somewhere. Well, things have gotten worse since I was in the third grade. People still can't spell, and now they're adults. At first we blamed spell check. "Hae, wy doo i neede too lern howe too spel win spel chek fixxes it fore me?" But then we realized that spell check works sometimes, but sometimes you end up with something like this: "Have, wee do I needed too learn Howe too spell win spell cheek fixes it fore me?" (actual spell check results for the preceding sentence.) But now people don't even bother with spell check. It's like we think we're too good for spell check. "Spel chek? Ha! Thats ownle fer loosers that dont no howe too spel!"

By far the most annoyingly misspelled word is "definitely." I've seen this word spelled "defintely," "definately," "definatly," and even "absolutely." Why is this word so hard to spell? I don't know, but I'm going to try to figure it out.

As today's fun exercise, please put a comment with the way you spell "definitely" and your excuse for not spelling it the right way. I need to get to the bottom of this. Anybody who doesn't participate will have to stay after class.
  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 12/15/2004