America’s spelling problem

It’s a well-known fact that Americans have a huge problem with spelling; it’s plenty evident when one reads comments on line, receives emails or electronic messages of any kind. 

Just like Trump, her boss, Nancy DeVos, proved woefully ineffective as his secretary of education. Take for instance this roadside sign, put up by a Provo developer that plan to build an office building near the Park City cemetery and headlined: “Build to Suite”.

I assume that he meant a commercial complex under which the developer or landlord agrees to build a property according to the lessee's requirements. 

No, buddy it shouldn’t be written “Build to Suite”, but “Build to Suit”. You’re a developer for crying out loud, you ought to at least know that. Likewise, the sign-maker that let that mistake go isn’t much smarter. 

This is why, to put an end to this blatant public display of ignorance, I packed a large marker pen on my walk today and effected the overdue correction. Now, thanks to my intervention, the developer can say that he “stands corrected!”