I had to interview job candidates for my company not long ago. And writing is involved - being able to describe the products on the website for potential buyers. As part of the interview I gave all candidates a 10 word spelling exam, nothing too difficult, words like "dimensions", "beautiful", "large", "pictures", etc. If memory serves, 90%+ of the candidates were recent ASU graduates in non-engineering disciplines. I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that if you saw the results, you'd think the spelling test had been administered to a group of non-English-speaking Albanian exchange students. It was like that comedy movie "Idiocracy" happening right there in the interviews.
My biggest person online pet peeve is the word "lose", as in the opposite of "to find". Somewhere along the way, that word gained an extra "o" and if you don't win you're a "looser".
My biggest person online pet peeve is the word "lose", as in the opposite of "to find". Somewhere along the way, that word gained an extra "o" and if you don't win you're a "looser".