I particularly get annoyed when I see the word cemetery misspelled as cemetary. Or separate as seperate. (My teacher used to remind us that it’s two A’s separated by an R.)
I cringed recently when a dear friend of mine sent out an email to her co-workers and several professors at the university at which she works to thank them for the flowers that they sent for her mother’s funeral. She commented on how beautiful the flowers looked on the “alter”. Her job is editing the Law Review for spelling and grammatical errors, and she’s been doing this for more than 20 years.
There is a rat in separate.
I thought ‘cemetery’ could be spelled both ways.