Joan - Oh yes! Grammar check has sometimes told me to write something that was clearly wrong. 

Patricia - I expect you're right about that. It's a new attitude: "I'll write it and you can see if you can figure out what I meant."

Unfortunately, prospective clients aren't going to go to that much trouble. 

Tom - That was a funny one, wasn't it? I expect someone had heard it, thought it sounded good, and just guessed at how to write it. Either that, or their auto correct did it for them! 

I think auto-correct makes it more important than ever to read before you send. 

Debbie - What seemed of little importance back in high school can seriously harm careers in adulthood. Too bad teachers can't make students understand that. 

Susan - I so agree about spell check. I like it, because it alerts me to my wonderful typos, but now and then it tries to tell me to use a word that is clearly incorrect. If I didn't know better, I'd obey. 

Belinda - I see the same thing on web pages. I know that some of my pages have errors that even my repeated readings have missed - a friend in the Rain pointed one out to me just recently. (Thank goodness for friends.) But some pages are so full of errors that you know you aren't looking at a typo. It seems to me that everyone should read what they've published - but perhaps some don't. 

Or... they don't know an error when they see one. 

Patty - some of those goofs really are funny. I think I should start a new collection. 

Thank you Vegas Bob - I'm beginning to feel like your resident nag. 

Kathy - What fun would we have in life without "oops" moments? We all have them - no matter how many times we read and re-read. I try to leave the work alone for at least a couple of hours before I read it for the last time - so that my mind won't "see" what isn't there because I think I just wrote it. Even then, I can miss things. 

Pat - Yes, you can come up with some funny mind pictures. I believe the cows in my neighborhood are all wholly cow, but I have heard of some that are not.

They're called "beefalo" and they're partially cow, partially buffalo. Some say they're better meat than a cow that's wholly cow, but I doubt if they're a better meet, because buffalo are known to be a bit ill-tempered. 

Donna - I agree! There's someone in my past who said that a lot, and it was annoying.

I can't think who it was - must have inherited my Mom's ability to "erase" people when I don't much like them.