It’s All Just English, Right??

On El Reg today (thanks, Brett, for the link!):

Brits and Yanks struck with embarasment embarrassment

“It’s official: English is going directly to hell in a handcart because more than half of native speakers of the lingo can’t spell ‘embarrassed’ - and even more have entered the new millennium without the foggiest idea of how 1,000 years pan out in our beloved mother tongue.…”

Make sure you check out the Times’ “Spelling Bee” and the comments, both at the end.