My father was a newspaper reporter.

The new journalists, recent graduates from college working at the same newspaper, frustrated him with their lack of spelling acumen. Now…

My father was a newspaper reporter. He taught my siblings and myself how much he hated misspelled words. “One misspelled word and the whole veracity of your story is questioned,” he complained.

The new journalists, recent graduates from college working at the same newspaper, frustrated him with their lack of spelling acumen. Now deceased (1985), he would be even more frustrated today with those who casually misspell.

The one that bothers me the most is when a couple gets married in front of the ‘alter’. Some journalists may loathe everything to do with religion, churches, mosques, temples or synagogues, but humans built altars, in one form or another, long before they were homo sapiens. There is no excuse for such misspelling or any other.

Thanks for writing this.