As a company with several Afrikaans engineers, the English spelling on our solutions has been an issue from time to time and part of testing has involved checking spelling.

Spelling errors on web sites, blogs, intranets etc. can be rather embarrassing as they undermine credibility of both the organization and the engineers.

I find the best way to check spelling on web systems is to simply copy the web page and paste it into a word processor and run a spell checker before publishing to the repository.

I was made to feel a lot better about the odd spelling error that creeps through the cracks, when Andy D pointed out a spelling error he found on the Google Maps API FAQ this morning. Lets see how long it stays up there