This Spells Trubble; Can't get the word right? It's a corporate plot

The Washington Post | May 4, 2008| | Copyright

DID YOU KNOW Americans can't spell competently? It's true. They spell it "competantly."

Ha-ha. But, seriously, we don't know how to spell, and this deficiency is getting worse. A few weeks ago, a study came out showing that a shockingly high percentage of adults were stymied by such common words as "calendar," "accommodate," "questionnaire" and "definitely." The results were embarrassing (a word that, as it happens, 28 percent of Americans cannot spell).

The press release for the survey blamed this regrettable situation on cellphones, the use of which encourages semiliterate text messaging ...

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