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June 16,
Spellcheck and check for meaning!

If you don't, you could end up talking to people about their unique testes! It never fails to amaze me.

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July 15,
Poor spelling can be damaging to credibility

Poor spelling can cut online sales in half.  

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December 10,
Seasonal Mistakes

I saw this lovely little Christmassy snippet in the Shropshire Star:- Shoppers might not have believed their mince pies when they saw what a supermarket had on offer. For days a misspelt sign at Sainsbury's supermarket in Dartford, Kent, advertised packs of icing-topped 'mice' pies, instead of mince pies. It's a wonder they didn't have […]

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July 9,
Universities Misspell "University"

13 of the World's Top 20 Universities Misspell "University" on Their Own Website! An analysis by enterprise website spell checking platform spellr.us has revealed that on average, 14.2% of web pages on the world's most prestigious university websites contain at least one genuine spelling error. The annual spellr.us Higher Education Online Content Survey found that […]

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May 6,
Get it right!

There is a price to pay for having toys made abroad just because it's cheaper. Granny Suzanne Toulson bought her granddaughter ABC building blocks from Morrisons, only to find a series of spelling errors. Building blocks have a letter of the alphabet and a word that starts with that letter, but the Y block misspelled […]

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March 11,
We can all get it wrong

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently gave a gift to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It was meant to underscore the Obama administration's readiness to "to press the reset button" in ties with Moscow. But instead of the Russian word for "reset" (perezagruzka) it featured a slightly different word meaning "overload" or "overcharged" (peregruzka).

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