I hate this........

[StSapphire]

One of my pet-peeves is the misuse of: there, their, they're; your, you're; here and hear. It is not a sign of intelligence level, but of lack of education.

I have this poster (along with two others on apostrophes and semicolons) hanging up at my desk at work:

10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal

 

[TWA]

Deaf are better spellers because they are more practiced at it. Finger-spelling Names and Places etc on a day to day basis.

Actually, that doesn't have a whole lot to do with it. Even deaf people who do not sign have been proven to be better spellers than hearing people.

 

[AlleyCat]

My SO is, god bless him, the worst speller, ever !! And he's hearing. He spells everything phonetically. So when he is writing his school papers, he uses spell-check extensively. And sometimes he's so severely misspelled a word that even spell-check can't figure out what to substitute, so he asks me. I certainly don't mind. Not all deaf people are bad spellers.

 

[BecLak]

Actually, that doesn't have a whole lot to do with it. Even deaf people who do not sign have been proven to be better spellers than hearing people.

for mentioning that - of course, I agree, TheWriteAlex. Due to strong visual all the same.