Sometimes it was not because you don't know the spelling of certain words. For instance, I know exactly how to spell expertise and privilege, but somehow misspellings as embarrassing as experties and privelege can still creep into a copy.
It's okay -- at least, it's okay -- if the copies are for your own consumption. But what if they are sent out to your company's subscribers? Imagine having to pay for a service that contain kindergarten errors! Ah, you'd be disgracing to the whole organisation!
Perhaps it's a wise thing not to take for granted that you have check everything before sending out a copy. Here's what I'm going to do each time I work on a copy after those two embarrassing incidents -- check every word, check every sentence from top to bottom and then check again after corrections are made. Then repeat the process 10 times.
Entertain even the slighest doubt that you might have gotton things wrong. Here are some of the most commonly misspelled words according to Paul Brians:
absence, abundance, accessible, accidentally, acclaim, accommodate, accomplish, accordion, accumulate, achievement, acquaintance, across, address, advertisement, aggravate, alleged, amend, amendment, annual, apparent, appearance, argument, atheist, athletics, attendance, auxiliary, balloon, barbecue, barbiturate, bargain, basically, beggar, beginning, believe, biscuit, bouillon, boundary, Britain, Buddha, business, calendar, camouflage, cantaloupe, category, cemetery, chagrined, challenge, characteristic, changing, chief, cigarette, climbed, collectible, colonel, colossal, column, coming, committee, commitment, comparative, competent, completely, concede, conceive, condemn, condescend, conscientious, consciousness, consistent, continuous, controlled, convenient, coolly, corollary, correlate, correspondence, counselor, courteous, courtesy, criticize, deceive, defendant...
Click on the Paul Brians' link for the complete list.
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