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[olderbutwiser]

Devise for device
Herd for heard
There for their (in 3 different articles authored by three different managers, including one about me 🤯)
Practise for practice
This years events

AARGH!

These are paid managers writing for a volunteer newsletter. A fair proportion of the volunteers are middle class recently retired snobbish pedants like me. It makes me want to scream.

They just think they’re snobbish pedants. They’re not

Sounds like dyslexia though… although in this day and age there is so much spelling and grammar software I am surprised nobody gets comms checked out these days

It’s unprofessional and it would annoy me too. I have also received many leaflets from local councillors and election candidates full of SPAG errors over the last few years, often about local schools and education.

I suppose they all mean well, though.

I don’t think those errors are typical of someone with dyslexia, apart from possibly, there, their, they’re.

Even if the authors do have dyslexia, all the more reason to check for accuracy, or ask someone to proofread, before sending out.