Spelling Still Counts
NASA reportedly will send pressurized rovers and habatation modules with astronauts for the agency’s next moon visit.
This is a very interesting news story, but for this post, I am going to focus on the spelling mistake.
Habitation is not a word that many of us use everyday. There are by some estimates, as many as 75,000 words in a college graduate’s vocabulary. I think anyone who makes their living using the written word should use spell check as a matter of course. I use a spell check program that highlights misspelled words as I type. One drawback to this is that when I am rushed I sometimes make bizarre errors in grammar and sentence structure or type the wrong word entirely. I will sometimes publish a post with these mistakes and notice them a day later when I have time to admire my writing prowess. If I had felt it was necessary to review my spelling before posting, I would catch these other mistakes.
