atw: Re: Query: Deliberate misspellings

Steve, think about spellings this way:
Although your readers might not be able to pronounce the words correctly,
and they might not have a snowball's chance of spelling anything more
complex than their own names, they will often see a mis-spelt word and know
that there's something wrong with it.  They will be uncomfortable with the
word, even though they don't know what's wrong.  I've seen this behaviour in
machine shops, printeries and factories.

Probably half (more, perhaps?) of the population of this fair land can't
spell - some because English is their second language, some because they
didn't pay attention at school, and some because the schools didn't teach
spelling.  Many of them try to improve their English by reading signs,
newspapers and whatever documents are around them.  Someone needs to help
these folk, and It's the responsibility of signwriters, journalists, tech
writers and anyone else who puts documents in the public domain.

Do your customers a favour and spell the words correctly.

Allan
allancharlton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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