> Perhaps the same percentage that care their grammar and proofreading? I have an excuse though. This is my fourth day on the colemak keyboard layout, so every

> Perhaps the same percentage that care their grammar and proofreading? I have an excuse though. This is my fourth day on the colemak keyboard layout, so every word I type is extremely painful. That particular error came from shortening the sentence from "What percent of people actually care about how they come across?" I accidentally edited out the about. Anything that has to do with typing right now is frustrating. > Knowing proper spelling is important if only to assist in word and term recognition when reading. What is far more useful is knowing _why_ words are spelled in a particular fashion and to know the history of the word and its roots. Not only does etymology help you know how to spell a word, it assists in selecting to proper word or term to get your point across in the most efficient and least ambiguous manner possible. Yes. You said it better than I did.