HarryW, I do most of my posts in WordPerfect, using the spell checker. I also review them before posting.

I am obsessive compulsive, and try to avoid typo's, misspellings, et cetera, but I deliberately misspell tough as tuff.

As a prank (perhaps to attract attention), I used to spell many words phonetically as a protest to the weirdness of the English language. Along with many other misspellings, I used reed and red instead of read ("I will reed PC Magazine tomorrow, yesterday I red some articles from Scientific American.").

Tuff is the only word left from that era in my life.

I still try to find reasons to put punctuation outside of quotes. In grammar school, some English teacher gave me a hard time, and I started looking for ways to show them up. Every time I had a new English teacher, I would manage to get him/her to claim that punctuation belonged inside quotes without exception. Then I would dream up sentences like
Are you the one who shouted "Fire, Fire!"?