Peeve! Huge peeve!

[jinian]

I like to think I am above petty peeves, but it's not true! I am not above them at all! I hate bad grammar, which I can justify somewhat by saying that there are learnable rules, but I'm also really bothered by bad spelling. I know people can't always learn to spell. And even the best speller is probably going to have a couple of words wrong now and then. I am reasonably desensitized to the common errors by now, but the one that really gets me is "idiosyncracy". (Rrrr. It is physically painful to type it that way.)

"-cracy" is a rule by something. It's "idiosyncrasy". Please to be abiding by my dictates.

(*looks for the obvious spelling or grammar screwup that's inevitably there in a post about accurate orthography*)