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by rdsubhas 1296 days ago
Both can be true.

Educated, British retiree is one class of audience, who may need a different nuanced tactic (tech/ amazon/ gmail security like email with a professional English call center that can engage them).

The world is a big place. There are also other classes of audiences (where the engagement effort is much lower) and this purposeful spelling mistake does look like a good way to weed out some of them.