![]() A big part of Boggs’ job is reworking and rehauling executive resumes, and she sees many professionals sticking in an ampersand - that is, an “&” - in the middle of resumes and cover letters instead of writing “and.” “This one is a pet peeve of mine,” said Debra Boggs, founder and CEO of D&S Executive Career Management. It isn’t like people are writing “andd,” but we still manage to screw up the word pretty often by not actually using it. ![]() It’s not that dumb, but it’s still pretty dumb. In fact, she has seen “alot” so often that she thinks it will be one day accepted into standard usage. She also writes professionally and says she has seen “a lot” written as “alot” a lot. It’s a lot, not alot, said Gigi Marino, a communications and public relations professional in Winter Park, Florida. “It’s a very different world from when I was in school, and the act of reading and memorizing vocabulary lists to learn spelling was just what you did,” she said. It effected all of the citizens.īut, generally, Williams said, due to spell check, she doesn’t see a lot of misspellings from her students. These sentences are not correct: The storm had quite an affect on the town. ![]() Williams said that she sees a lot of students using the word “affect” when they mean “effect.”įor instance, these sentences are correct: The storm had quite an effect on the town. Luellen Professor of English and director of creative writing at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and is not related to this author (as far as we know). So people aren’t misspelling as many words as they used to, but they often misspell words because they don’t understand which words are the correct ones to use. AffectĪs noted, most of us have autocorrect and spell check (which kept trying to fix the words in this article we were intentionally misspelling, by the way). It shouldn’t be hard with autocorrect and spell check, but apparently, it is. ![]() “I work with words literally all day long,” said Slade, who said that “accommodation” is a top offender for most-misspelled word. “Accommodation often misspelled as acommodation, accomodation, or acomodation,” said Haley Slade, CEO and founder of Slade Copy House, a digital copywriting agency based in Nashville, Tennessee. We asked a bunch of professionals who work with words every day, and, well: Get ready to feel even dumber. ![]()
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