Nite Fight

It's irritating. Truly.

I hate it when people spell words incorrectly. But it really bothers me when they spell words incorrectly on purpose. You know, where they change the spelling of a word because it's "cute" or some other stupid reason? For example, there's a convenience store chain known as the Kum-N-Go when it should be Come-and-Go. Or when someone is chatting online and instead of using something, they type out sumthin. The list goes on.

Really. It's endless.

But perhaps the one I hate the most is when people use nite for night. There's Nick-at-Nite. A local bar offering karaoke tonite. A trucking company known as Over-Nite.

I once tried to count how many times nite was used in place of night. I lost count after 20 sightings in less than 3 hours.

Is it so hard to spell a word correctly? To stick in that one little letter? I just don't understand why the proper spelling of a word is frequently belittled and replaced with non-standard, poorly spelled substitutes.

It's highly unnecessary and wrong.

In other, unrelated, rants, has anyone heard Lonestar's cover of Marc Cohn's Walking in Memphis?? It sucks. Major. The arrangement is hideous and the vocals aren't that great.

Why do people take other people's work and butcher it?

Perhaps that is a rant for another day.