I’m an editor’s editor and ain’t ashamed to admit it. I’m a perfectionist when it comes to grammar and spelling. (Disclaimer: I’m using “ain’t” in this post because my personal stylebook says I can.)

The first rule we learned when I was still a journalism major was that misspelling a source’s name in an article was a no-no, and the profs took this rule seriously. One misspelled name on an assignment was guaranteed to give the delinquent student an automatic F [on the assignment], no exceptions. When I make this mistake (by accident, usually) on something even as trivial as a journal entry like this or something visible to my reading audience, I’m pretty embarrassed about it and try to fix it right away.

So when I see people misspelling a blogger’s name in her own comments section, IT DRIVES ME ABSOLUTELY CRAZY.

One L, people. Is that so hard to remember?

P.S. And I’m picking on Michele because it tends to happen on her blog more than any other website I read. If that makes me a “link whore” to some people, that’s their problem.