Hooked on Phonics

I’m a meticulous sort about some things. I typo a lot in my blog, sometimes I go back and fix it and other times I do not. It depends on if I’ve managed to get my point across without making a person go bug eyed. For the most part, if I re-read my post and notice something I’ve screwed up on, I go back and fix it. Today, I was in a meeting with some individuals and noticed a typo in someone’s quote. The typo was the word “conceited”. They’d put the I before the E, which is actually not all that uncommon for anyone at all. The conversation when something like this:

“So, here is the hand out for today.” lady passes around the flier which contains a quote at the bottom. I can only imagine it was random, because it had nothing to do with the meeting topic.

I point out the error. “Were you aware of the spelling mistake in this quote?”

“Well here, give me your paper, Mr. Hooked on Phonics. I’ll correct it for you.” I hand over the paper as she speaks.

Of course you know what my reply is, “Actually, it’s Mr. Spelling Nazi. Spelling a word like conceited incorrectly is not a phonics issue. Conceited is a word that follows an exception rule, so it’s not an “ordinary word”; thus, phonics wouldn’t cover it.”

These are all friends of course and we had a good laugh about it, but yes I do take things too far on occasion. ^_^