Comment by omegote
12 years ago
You'll find that people that have english as their first language tend to make that kind of mistakes more often than people who have it as a second language. In my case, for example, my first language is spanish, where everything sounds as it's written. When I see mistakes like writing "manor" instead of "manner", or "should of" instead of "should have" I can't help but think that I would never make that kind of mistake, because of the way people learn english as a second language in comparison to a first language.
This might be also because you learned English when you already knew how to read, which isn't the case for people learning it as a first language.