| I'm fanatical about correct English too, whether written or typed. My wife moans constantly about my correcting our children's grammatical errors, as she also suffered from brainwashed Lefties at school. I might just be pedantic, but every time I read something, the first things to register in my head are any spelling/grammatical mistakes! It does matter in the real world.
I never use spellcheck for two reasons; I don't need it, and I'm sick of English words being questioned because they don't conform to American misspellings.
I think it strange that teachers insist correct spelling is unimportant, when they know they would never have been employed themselves under the same criteria. |