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"University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell."

To kickstart his proposal, Smith suggested 10 common misspellings that should immediately be accepted into the pantheon of variants, including "ignor," "occured," "thier," "truely," "speach" and "twelth" (it should be "twelfth").

I am by no means a grammar nazi, and spelling is, in all honesty, one of my weaker points. But why the hell would you want to make it "okay" to allow people to be stupider? I can (maybe) buy the argument that you should change how some words are spelled (facade has always stuck me as particularly weird... and yes, I know it a foreign word), but to accept multiple variations?? That man should be ashamed to be in an institute of higher learning.