Thanks everyone for your responses to the original question.

While some folks found the criticism of my poor spelling disruptive (and it kind of was), I'm actually grateful for the debate.

Before now, I thought spelling was no big deal. I foolishly believed that the only people who cared about spelling were marketing and sales types. I actually wore my bad spelling as a badge of pride.

Now I know there are a good body of technical people who really really hate poor spelling. I'm a little surprised at myself for not realizing this earlier.

Because I'm a member of the camp who believes it's the communicators job to be as clear and accessible as possible, I'm going to try to improve my spelling.

Big thanks to BrowserUK for mentioning web browsers with built in spell checkers. I hadn't thought of that. I've just installed Spellbound for firefox, and I'm checking this post with it right now.

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