Talking of things that irritates me, top of the line are people who do not take the trouble to spell words correctly. Don’t take me wrong, I can stand and excuse people new to the language or children, who make mistakes while spelling. They are after all just learning.

What I cannot stand are people who should know better.

Forget about others, number of college educated native English speakers who cannot write one sentence without making at least one mistake is simply mind bogglingly high. I know that from personal experience. For the life of me I cannot make out why they should be making mistakes. They have seen and read those words all their life.

When I see such writing I just want to scream my head off sometimes. I mean, even if they cannot spell, can’t they use spell checkers that are standard issue for word processors these days? Why do they not take the trouble of making few more clicks?

In fact such mistakes indicate that these people simply do not care how they treat others and how they themselves want to be treated. It is simply bad manners. They simply do not care and are sloppy, in the same way that people who litter or wipe their hands on upholstery, do not care about all the unpleasantness they are creating.

To an extent we are all responsible for this devil may care attitude in that we do not remind and caution people about their sloppiness when we observe it.