Spelling Flaws Cost Careers and Profits in 19th Century Tales
A ragged string of anecdotes shows spelling mistakes harm hiring, promotion, and business deals. Examples include a candidate for school mastership missing with a salary of fifteen hundred dollars and later two thousand, and a college professor whose reputation suffered from poor orthography in correspondence. Additional vignettes cover a bak keeper turned secretary rejected for mis-spelled entries, and a Massachusetts meeting where mis-spelling sparked social friction among speakers and audiences.
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