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From: Raving on 9 Aug 2008 23:28
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Common spelling mistakes should be accepted into everyday use, not
corrected, a lecturer has said. ...

He lists the 10 most commonly misspelt words, which include
"arguement" for "argument" and "twelth" for "twelfth".

Mr Smith says his proposal, outlined in an article in the Times Higher
Education Supplement, follows years of correcting the same mistakes.

Mr Smith, a criminology lecturer, said: "Instead of complaining about
the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year
after year, I've got a better idea.

"University teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those
words our students most commonly misspell. ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7546975.stm
From: bubba on 9 Aug 2008 23:54
Raving wrote:
> Common spelling mistakes should be accepted into everyday use

won't win no spelling bees that way
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