>>These days it seems in print you see the tortuous "more well-known" and "most well-known" instead of "better-known" and "best-known".
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>>Also, a new tipping point. With the exception of large advertising campaigns (where mistakes would bring ridicule and be expensive to fix), it seems that "its" and "it's" are used improperly more than half the time. The other day I saw a single sentence that contained both "its" and "it's", and was dumbfounded that both instances were correct - it's that rare these days. Far more common in that circumstance is for the writer to get them both wrong.
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>It is also quite worrisome to me that I've been noticing a general trend toward increasing number of spelling and grammatical errors in "hardcopy" media (e.g. magazines, newspapers) -- something that I don't recall seeing when I was much younger. One would assume that since most of the time the articles in question would've been entered into a computer at some point, that a simple spellcheck would've caught these simple mistakes, and as a result, should make such mistakes a rather rare occurrence. I've also received numerous examples of business correspondence with (what I would consider to be) an unusually high number of spelling and grammatical errors -- from people who evidently use English as a primary language (and most of the time, English happens to be the *only* language they know). I'm dreading the day that I start seeing cover letters and resume that read like Lolcat...

That's why I said "large" advertising campaigns. I, too, have also seen errors in small to medium hardcopy and online media.

Maybe spell checkers are getting crowdsourced; a high enough prevalence of errors starts appearing as acceptable "secondary" results :(

As for LOLCat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCat_Bible_Translation_Project