AIBU in thinking emails from a company should be spelled correctly?

I cant stand wrong spelling.I am fortunate to be able to spell, and have not had a problem with spelling.I feel sorry for anyone who cannot spell, a lot of people have this problem, my Husband has dyslexia and has great problems, which are often helped by his computer, when he asks me repeatedly to spell certain words I have to be patient,he is asking me to spell in HIS language, which is not my native language, but I am grateful to be able to help.

I was surprised that my DGD came home with a sheet of spellings with the heading 'Spelling Practise' but not as amazed as when I worked in a school office and a teacher said a child's spelling was 'abismal'.

Ah the English language ! kathyd It is designed to catch us out!!

I was advertising a room to let, in our house, so was looking for someone I could live with. The replies to the ad written in txt spk, I was ignoring until I received a really badly spelled message which I showed to a friend as if to say "Look at this, isn't it terrible" and expecting her to agree. Instead my DF suggested this person could be dyslexic and sure enough that was the case. He became our tenant for a year. Delightful chap - a musician and gardener.

Spellcheckers are more likely to work as you want if the software is configure to the language variety of your version of standard English. This can be difficult for those of us living in the UK since software at every level, from the operating system down to the individual document most often defaults to American English, which as the greatest number of users worldwide. I find that this also tends to happen when updates are installed. And autocomplete, autocorrect and other such ‘helpful’ shortcuts often seem to be immune to personal preferences anyway.

Disclaimer: Any spelling errors or nonsense words you see in my post are entirely down to peripheral neuropathy and a resulting hand tremor. I have never not been able to spell correctly, and other people’s typos leap out at me, but I often find that I miss my own, or else that a creative littlye auto-proof-corrector has replaced it with a correctly spelt but random three-syllable word which has nothing to do with what I thought I'd typed.

I received an email from a representative of a national organisation yesterday who used "there" instead of "their"! Appalling!

Eye have a spell in chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
It plane lee marques four my revue
Miss Steaks I can knot sea.

Eye strike the quays and type a whirred
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am write oar wrong
It tells me straight a weigh.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your shore real glad two no.
Its vary polished in its weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.

A chequer is a bless thing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right all stiles of righting,
And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The chequer pours o'er every word
Two cheque sum spelling rule.

Charleygirl5, it beggars belief, doesn't it? (Get well soon )

Grammar not brilliant either. Poorly written emails - I tend to worry about scams

My real pet hate. Stationary when it is for paper items etc, we were taught that you put an e for envelope! Never forgotten this. A lot of shoddy spellings around in all aspects whether email, letter etc.

I am a patient at a London teaching hospital where the letterhead has ophtalmology on it.

I hate poor spelling and think back to school having to learn spelling tests and in trouble if you got them wrong!

The spelling of the words Accommodation, Jewellery, Definitely, Separate, Embarrassing, Necessary, always seem to be wrong. We stayed in a holiday let recently and the visitors book was full of people spelling the word Accommodation totally wrong. But I suppose there are more important things to worry about.

I am a pedant, too and was well-taught as a child. We used to have to learn 5 spellings every night and were given a written test on them them the next morning. My father was a writer and poet, so he attached great importance to correct spelling and grammar, too. Surely, the whole point of writing is that other people can understand what one is trying to communicate and not have to guess at the meaning.

The trouble is, you’re castigated by so many people, if you point out spelling and grammar errors. You’ll be told that, as long as you can understand the gist, it doesn’t matter. To me, it does.

What I really fail to understand is spelling that will most definitely have a red line under it, indicating it’s wrong. I don’t vunderstand how people fail to see that and use the corrected version.

Nightsky2 , is missspell a deliberate mistake?

Lol...love this thread. I am such a pedant and love to find I am not alone. I know I should let it wash over me, that English is a living language and thus open to change, but it doesn’t half grind my gears!

I have a friend who recently posted on line a sentence in the phonetic system she was taught to read and write in. To me, it was completely unreadable, and no surprise to me that anyone taught this way struggles with conventional/correct reading and writing. So we should perhaps not be so quick to judge those who do not know 'better'.
She also posted that, having had to teach herself to write properly, she then went on to take a number of degrees, including a Law degree. So poor spelling is not necessarily an indicator of low intelligence.
I did work with this friend many years ago, and can vouch for the fact she represented our organisation in Court on a daily basis and was well respected.

My husband has recently been made redundant from a large company. An email sent started “Dear Paul” (his name is not Paul) and his postal address was stated as that of his son who works for the same company! I thought it was shocking!!

Bad spelling, punctuation, and in general report writing in media reports and newspapers drives me mad. I blame text messages and the way words are shortened. I also get very annoyed when I see the following words spelt wrongly
Descousting (disgusting)
Absoulitely (absolutely)
Just 2 of many.
There and their being used in the wrong context.
No real punctuation to make the reasoning of the sentence correct.
I feel like the correction police at times, as I count up the mistakes made in articles in the news or just in social media posts.

When I was teaching secondary English 20 years ago, we were not encouraged to mark spellings and punctuation much, because it was felt to dishearten students if work came back full of corrections. I was old-fashioned enough to ignore this (mostly!) but if a coursework essay was resubmitted beautifully presented but still full of mistakes, I had to let it go. The general feeling was that it was a teacher's job to draw out creative potential and that spelling and grammar were just minor technicalities which would be dealt with by spell checking programmes when composition was complete. In my next career, I sacked a PR agency whose grads kept sending me 'draft' media releases so full of errors that I had to rewrite them myself. The grads thought I was unfair and far too fussy. One admitted she didn't know how to spell.

I work as an HLTA in primary schools (and am a book editor outside of these hours). Grammar, spelling etc is something that just glares at me if it's wrong.
The trouble is that because of large class sizes and mixed abilities (SEN) within them, education nowadays is more about crowd control than learning. Some of the brighter children have developed the ability to ignore 'behaviours', others who could do well if they applied themselves simply join in with the disruption. I sometimes go in wondering if it will be my turn to be on the receiving end of physical abuse from a child.
We are told that inclusion is a good thing. Well, having seen standards drop over the past several years (with a government response being to up the testing - which is firmly tied to school failure - because of the behaviours), I beg to differ. Why should a child who does not want to learn and trashes the classroom/goes on the rampage receive preferential treatment? Staff have to see the positives and ignore the negatives. So children are allowed to do whatever the hell they want with no reprisals.
My heart bleeds for the middle of the road learners who, years ago, would have received more attention. Nowadays, if a child can get a sentence down on paper, never mind the spellings, it's considered successful.
It may surprise you to know that ESL children, some of whom start at school aged 8 and above, generally concentrate well and want to learn. They often do better in tests having only been in the country for a couple of years, than native children do. Sad to say I am currently finalising a TEFL qualification so that I can teach English to these children. At least at the end of the working day I will know I have achieved something positive and not have to dodge thrown chairs/punches.
I truly despair of what will happen to this country when these children are of working age. Ads for jobs will read 'Be a bilder wiv us' or 'secatry wonted in are cumpny'...

The latest howler I’ve come across was in a pre-op leaflet given out at my hospital.
‘If you are menstruating on the day of your operation please use a sanity pad not a tampon ‘
Made me smile, then annoyed at such a ridiculous error. What on earth would it mean to patients who do not have English as their first language. ?

Recently found out that my DGS is dyslexic and am finding this post exytremely annoying. His mum’s a consultant and his dad’s a lawyer. Can you all spell every word in your vocabulary correctly, are you sure?.

Pronunciation.
Logorrhoea
Missspell
Intelligence
Weird
Handkerchief
Pharaoh

Hope you all get top marks?

Poor spelling I can accept. Mispronunciation ? don't get me started on that one.

Trouble with spell checkers is if a word is correctly spelt then it won’t be picked on. There, their, hear,here and so on.

Many people are dyslexic and never master the spelling rules.
This by no way reflects a lack of intelligence even though it appears to be the case judging from the contributions above. However I do feel that with spell checkers available it should be possible to send out information in a way that does not reflect badly on the company.