From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: Maestro Debit Card
Newsgroups: uk.finance misc.consumers uk.people.consumers
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:59:20 GMT

usenet@isbd.co.uk wrote:

> In uk.finance Greg Rozelle  wrote:
>> On 14 Feb 2006 23:38:21 -0800, "Peter King" 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >Your post is almost completly out of date and wrong, and also your
>> >spelling and grammer make little sense.
>> 
>> There is nothing wrong with my spelling.  I use a spell checker.
> 
> Er, yes, but that doesn't guarantee that words are spelt correctly.
> It will allow 'their' for 'there', 'on' for 'one' and lots of other
> similar errors.

In particular, 'are' for 'our', was one which caught my eye, and which
helps to render the missive pretty incomprehensible until you put
some effort into understanding what might have been meant.  This is
just not good enough.  The effort should be made by the writer, not
the reader.

There really is no good reason to use a spell checker *ever*, if it
leads to the practice of being lax when typing, on the basis that the
checker will catch all one's mistakes.  Far better not to make them
in the first plaice.