[Brucifer]

Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. It wasn't really that long ago that people who couldn't find several ways to spell the same word were considered very unimaginative.

[UpAllNight]

--Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. It wasn't really that long ago that people who couldn't find several ways to spell the same word were considered very unimaginative.--

Not a vry imagitive post. No missspelings at al.

[kinoxi]

I think the increasing reliance on the written (typed) word as a form of communication might lead to rise in certain reactions over misspelled words. Similar to the reaction of a group of people talking to someone who speaks the same language with a different accent as mentioned previously on this thread. BTW do you spell it aluminium or aluminum?
:)