Cary Chamber of Commerce hold your head in shame (Raleigh: houses, community college)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I received the Cary Chamber 2008 Election supplement in the mail today and was appalled to see that on the two inside pages they spelt 'candidates' as 'canidates'. Maybe I am just old fashioned about spelling and would expect a prestigous organization such as the Cary Chamber not to be so sloppy in in it's communications to the community at large. No doubt at the next meeting someone will stand in the corner wearing a Dunces cap
attached is the online version with exactly the same error - please wake up Cary Chamber
I received the Cary Chamber 2008 Election supplement in the mail today and was appalled to see that on the two inside pages they spelt 'candidates' as 'canidates'. Maybe I am just old fashioned about spelling and would expect a prestigous organization such as the Cary Chamber not to be so sloppy in in it's communications to the community at large. No doubt at the next meeting someone will stand in the corner wearing a Dunces cap
attached is the online version with exactly the same error - please wake up Cary Chamber
Spelt is actually an acceptable version of the past tense of spell, though it's not as common as spelled. However, it's should have been its, and Dunces should have been dunce's. There should have been a hyphen in between old and fashioned, and, as NRG pointed out, prestigious was misspelled.
First rule of being a Grammar Nazi - make sure your own posts are clean. Especially the ones pointing out the grammar mistakes of others.
As someone whose fingers sometimes strike the wrong keys when typing, or the correct keys in the wrong order, I wasn't certain if your spelling mistakes were intentional, accidental, or a test for the rest of us.
But "Yes", I am also irked by incorrect spelling and poor grammar in publications.
Before everyone tars and feathers Beermat, I'd like to risk a similar fate and agree. I think it is sloppy on someone's part to allow a typo like that to get through in a publication.
I once worked for the adult education department of a community college whose brochure contained several spelling mistakes and a couple of grammatical gaffes. I was absolutely horrified. The head of the department was a supposed PhD who literally could not string together two grammatically correct sentences. She was not at all pleased that I pointed out the mistakes.
Both Cary and Beermat should be called to task. Tighten up, peoples!
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