Be careful of your spelling

One of my biggest pet peeves is misspelled words, especially those that present themselves in professional content. Perhaps it could be because I am a journalist by trade, so when I see grammatical errors or misspelled words my eye begins to twitch. The White House recently committed the mistake of misspelling the name of Frederick Douglass by forgetting an (s) at the end of his name.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

It was pretty embarrassing to see something like this come out of the White House, but with everything coming out of the news lately, this is probably the least surprising.

I often see some blog posts with misspelled words in the titles, and in the content. Usually when I see it in the title I immediately delete the email without even opening the blog post because to me, it screams mediocrity.

Just imagine if majority of your audience thinks just like me? Can you imagine how much readership you will lose in the end because you didn't pay attention to your spelling?

WA has a pretty good spelling and grammar checking tool on here. Another good tool I use is Grammarly. I highly recommend this tool because you can install it on your browser and it will check your work in whatever website you are working on.

When I write my blog posts inside SiteContent I use the built in grammar and spelling checker, then once I transfer the post to WordPress I check it again with Grammarly, because sometimes it may pick up something I missed.

Okay, I am off my spelling rant soap box now. Happy blogging everyone!