The Cranky Professor

spelling is way overrated

.....well you WOULD say that. And you're my counter-example, of someone who I think is as well-educated as me (and better at lots of it) but has never, ever (since we were children) been able to spell. --MCT

Nave students trust their spellchecker apse to altar their spelling.

Do they really pronounce naive as one syllable?

Among the vast array of papers dumped on my desk, my favorite spellchecking violator switched the words genitals and Gentiles.

.....I hope there was circumcision involved. --MCT

That's why I said it - because I would! But please no false humility. I am a dilettante (I looked it up), and you are a scholar.

I was known as The Human Spell-Check when I worked in the dot-com industry. Yet I have otherwise found superhuman spelling to be an unmarketable skill.

I believe that it is a Freudian slip. Surely many naive individuals have made that trip to the altar. A year or so ago, I was asked to cast an eye over a student-written festschrift of essays on leadership. The prologue referred to "this copulation of articles...." I have since used it as an example of how spell-check will not necessarily save your arse.