Great input to my original post. Thank you very much for your insight. I still have to ask the question though:
In order to graduate from high school in the United States, we are required to prove (through testing) that we understand and can communicate using "American" English. This means that we should be able to spell correctly.
Nobody is required to attend college here in the U.S.; it is completely optional. Everyone here must complete twelve years of free education where basic math, spelling and common sense are instilled.
It just seems crazy that the handful of items that we as contractors or installers deal with on a regular basis are so difficult to spell. I once got a promotion and a raise from my boss and part of my job was to correct errors on handwritten invoices. Why should he have had to pay me to do what any high school graduate should have been able to do on their own?
