Where Would We Be Without Spellchecker?

Sep 21, 2011

I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to words and spelling, I suck.

No, seriously.

For instance, my last blog title? I had to google dilemmas to make sure I spelled it correctly. Yup that’s right. And it still doesn’t look right to me.

Though come to think of it there are several words that don’t look right when you spell them out.

Top on that list is convenient. I always feel like I’m missing an “e” or something. It’s pretty pathetic. I think a large part of that though is because of the way convenience is spelled. Tricky little bastard!

And then there’s obsessed. I often misspell this because I forget that there is an “s” that comes after the b. So usually it’ll read as “obessed”—embarrassing right?

Oh and then there’s the word embarrass – how many fucking r’s and s’s should there be?

I’m proud of myself because I actually spelled obsessed and embarrass correctly the first time (without the help of spellcheck, mind you)—okay more like I spelled embarrassing correct, not so much embarrass.

So what does this all boil down to? I’d be an absolute mess without spellcheck. It wouldn’t look pretty and I’m fairly certain I’d drive my readers (those who do actually read– half the time I’m fairly certain I’m talking to myself) mad. So thanks spellchecker, you rock!

What about you? Where would you be without it?