Can you spot the typo?
As you can see, typos can create a very different meaning! Sometimes it’s more embarrassing than others, but regardless of the embarrassment, typos (I think) always make you look unprofessional and (I also think), impact the way in which the reader perceives and receives what they are reading.
So, before publishing to the web, do a spell check.
Once you’ve published to the web, you can use tools like spellr.us to check for any existing spelling errors.
However, as you can see from the example above, a spell check wouldn’t have picked up on the typo, so there really is no replacement for a good old-fashioned human once-over!
But who knows – perhaps one day online spell checkers will be able to do contextual spell checks too!
Update
Here’s another typo I came across whilst visiting a restaurant website. Less dangerous, still embarrassing (it’s not a hard word to spell correctly!). If you see any other typos, take a screenshot and send them in!
Hey Steve,
Great typo’s I’ve been involved with… for our local police agency annnual report
Instead of ‘Executive Director’, my graphic designer typed in ‘Execution Director’. And the spell checker didn’t pick that one up.
Yeah Thanks for that.
Good reminder that the spell checker has limited powers!
> So, before publishing to the web, do a spell check.
And for this there is Spell Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Com). It adds spell check to all programs, and comes with an optional grammar check.