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When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.

'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'