Internet culture responsible for spelling mistakes

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In an article published recently in the Guardian, researchers blame the internet culture for an increasing number of spelling mistakes.

According to the Oxford English Corpus, a database of a billion words, dozens of traditional phrases are now more commonly misspelled than rendered correctly in written English, the article informs.

According to lexicographers working for Oxford Dictionaries, most common spelling mistakes include "Straight-laced" instead of the correct "strait-laced", "Just desserts" for "just deserts", "font of knowledge or wisdom" when it should be "fount".

Due to their popularity, some of the originally incorrect versions have it made into Oxford dictionaries alongside the right one.

"We have to accept spelling is not fixed and can change over the years,"  Catherine Soanes, of Oxford Dictionaries, is cited. "You only have to look back 100 years, when the word rhyme was spelled rime. But since then we adopted rhyme as the correct spelling because this is more like the Greek word from which it originally came."

Source Guardian Unlimited