And none of us have made the mistake of public vs. pubic?

I need to seriously proofread my emails sometimes.

I've seen spelling errors that wouldn't have occurred in such frequency 25 years ago. And these are from university-educated people where their first language or only language is English.

And I get super tired of spelling out my first name to unilingual, English speaking people --can't people figure out the gender difference between Jean and Gene? I never had to do this when I was a child...but now it's quite frequent.

It must creative spellings for other first names, that is causing this annoying trend.

I do find some of the English misspellings in non-English language countries quaint. But I can't laugh too hard, I already deal with a mother who doesn't know much English and I've lost a tremendous amount of my mother tongue, Chinese.

But hey, my French is truly laughable...and for many of you, it would be also...