[GingisK]

It just struck me that perhaps you may not be aware of them.

I think I owe you additional comments. I have implied admission of guilt in being an atrocious speller. That is par for engineers, and everyone who has ever worked with engineers knows this. Spell checkers rank high among our greatest achievements. ;-D

Spelling is not a strong asset in the conceptual thinking we do, nor in the implementation of the design. Once the concepts and designs are ready for public consumption, engineers are rarely asked to write the documents or make up the advertising flyers: enter the other skilled people.

I've never seen a technical writer or a market manager who can write software or solve equations for electric servo motor dynamics. I don't criticize them for those obvious shortcomings. We work as a team, each providing a piece of the total product.

[discostu]

Poor spelling makes it a lot harder to get your code to compile, that would mean you spend more time fixing your code than a better speller, which makes you less productive. Being a better speller would improve your job prospects, especially if there's a problem on your resume or letter of intent, when I do hirings a misspelling is an automatic rejection.