I know we've all seen this poem before, but it always makes me smile:
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Grammar and spelling have always been the line of demarcation between educated (and, therefore, reliable) information and uneducated (and, therefore, untrustworthy) information. I know it's hard to believe in this age of LOLspeak, texting, and casual plainspeaking, but in some ways it's even more important now than ever before! Information is so overwhelmingly and readily available, and sharing that information across hundreds or even thousands of miles takes no more than the click of a mouse. It seems overly simple to say "Check your spelling and watch your grammar," but anyone in a human resources or publication submissions office will tell you that this common sense approach is anything but common. Mind your p's and q's!
(And, if your project is truly important, don't hesitate to ask for help from your friendly neighborhood editor for hire!)
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