Pet Peeve

Throughout my life, there has been one thing that has always bothered me. When I was younger, I wrote it off as the inexperience of youth, thinking that it would go away when I got to high school. After I got to high school and learned that it was still a problem, I figured one must break out of it when one gets to college. Now that I am in college, I'm realizing that this problem never goes away. What is this problem? Well, I will tell you.

Spelling.

Spelling, spelling, spelling!!!

It isn't just the fifth graders spelling "too" and "to" wrong to me anymore. I can sometimes write off text messaging spelling errors, but when sixteen people reply to me the word "definitely" spelled in any combination of incorrect letters (for instance: "definately," "defenitly," or "definitley"), I start to get frustrated. T9 predictive text is not a good way to spell check something! T9 recognizes all sorts of letters that definitely are not words. However, many of my friends think that if T9 recognizes it as a letter combination, it must be a word. False!

Ah, the agony.

I think the worst part about this spelling pet peeve is that my professors can't even spell. Oftentimes I sit in the back row of my English class, shaking my head, because another word on the board is spelled wrong.

Alas. At least I can make my best effort not to spell things wrong.

We'll go from there.