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Aaron Wherry covers all the goings-on in and around Parliament Hill. Follow Aaron on Twitter: @aaronwherry

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Today, we are all poor spellurs

by Aaron Wherry on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:03pm - 98 Comments

CBC reprints an e-mail distributed by PMO implicating almost everyone in that inadvertent reference to improper hygiene. Note that our Kady is nearly identified as her own independent media outlet.

Tags: dimitri soudas, Iqaluit, Kady O'Malley, Nunavut

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tobyornottoby

Look at the positive side … we all learned a new word we can use in political discourse. Next time I get a ten percenter I'm sending it back to the friggin Iqualuit who sent it!
chaimbitton

Speaking of spell & grammar check, there is a good program Grammar Check Anywhere (SpellCheckAnywhere.Com) it adds spell & grammar check to all programs.
Matthew Fletcher

The real lesson of this story, if there is one at all, is how unfamiliar most of us are with Northern Canada.

If the typo had been related to a trip to Vancoover, Edminton, Mountreal or Halifaxe I'm sure it wouldn't have passed by so many eyes unnoticed.

If we don't even know how to properly spell the name of one of our capitals, how much else are we unaware of?
Jules

The difference is that Kady has herself, and perhaps one other person who proofreads her work. The PMO has the powers of the entire federal government to make sure that they dont offend everyone they meet (which they manage to do every time the PM is let out of his office).
André

How can people ignore this typo when they're carbon-bonded to the tabloid stand to see if Brangelina will stay together for the kids!

It's not a silly story, it's pop-culture. If you critical elitists don't like it then find yourselves another tabloid magazine.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Stewart_Smith Stewart_Smith

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. Milne
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bad spelling on the internet comes from all the information we are swamped with all the time these days: we just don't take the time to slow down and spell correctly that much anymore.
http://intensedebate.com/people/sea_n_mountains sea_n_mountains

i voted but just to see if the position i was taking would pop up after i did Dot….. if that helps…you are down to 3