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Mordecai and Rigby
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#1 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 12:56 AM
Default What is the worst misspelling you have ever seen?
Once I was on a website that had flash games. One of them was obviously supposed to be My Skating Class, but instead of a K there was a C.
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#2 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 1:00 AM
Driving in the country I saw a sign

Cauliflower's
Potato's
Carrot's
Free.

I personally was delighted, because I had no idea that all these innocent vegetables had been arrested in the first place.
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#3 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 1:12 AM
"Donuts" Is a common misspelled word that infuriates me. The spelling of the word has literally been changed from doughnuts because of trendy stores like "Dunkin Donuts." Now whether you see doughnuts advertised on television, bakeries or in stores, they are spelled "donuts."
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#4 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 1:54 AM
There was a girl in my class in high school who, shall we say, struggled with WWII states, no matter how many times the teacher corrected her... "Nazi" was pronounced "nay-zee," and if she had to write out the name of the National Socialist party, it would invariably be spelled "Knotsi." I was so glad to get into college-level classes after experiences like that...
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#5 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 2:09 AM
Whenever I see "noone" instead of "no one", I read "nooner" which is a whole different kettle of fish.
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#6 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 2:24 AM
Every time my mother types ridiculous to me, she spells it rediculous. Drives me crazy.
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#7 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 2:50 AM
Multiple people I have on Facebook think 'nethew' is the correct spelling of Nephew, so much so that I keep forgetting how to spell/pronounce it.
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#8 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 3:08 AM
"Hermione stood in the centre of a cloud of minges, all of them trying to bite her."

Midges are biting insects. Minges are vaginas.

Also, spelling "viola" as "wah-la"
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#9 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 3:48 AM
Me. Bad speller. Also bazaar; I'm forgetting how to spell 3rd grade words, but remember how to spell med school words. I often realize I'm misspelling something (on MTS) but am just too lazy to look it up. That doesn't stop me from wanting to correct every else's syntax.
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#10 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 3:56 AM
Quote: Originally posted by hugbug993
Also, spelling "viola" as "wah-la"

Spelling voila as viola? I kid, honest mistake
Anyway, the worst spelling mistake I've ever seen was when the lunch lady at school put an E at the end of "go"
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#11 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 3:57 AM
One of the ones that makes me wince I saw lately when I watched a splendid Facebook argument between a seller of a hideous pair of boots and the unfortunate buyer - The buyer was winning the slanging match hands down, using all manner of dreadful text speak until her messages were barely legible to me, until she rage-quit the thread with the parting shot 'chow' ...

I so wanted to write: *cough*ciao*cough*
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#12 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 4:47 AM
My mom once wrote a business letter dealing with something 'public'... but she forgot to put that l in there.
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#13 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 4:52 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Eronel
Spelling voila as viola? I kid, honest mistake
Anyway, the worst spelling mistake I've ever seen was when the lunch lady at school put an E at the end of "go"


Actually, no. The author thought that "wah-la" was an acceptable alternate spelling for voila, and then confused voila with the instrument viola. So the text was littered with sentences like "I sat down with my wah-la and drew the bow."
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#14 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 4:58 AM
Quote: Originally posted by hugbug993
Actually, no. The author thought that "wah-la" was an acceptable alternate spelling for voila, and then confused voila with the instrument viola. So the text was littered with sentences like "I sat down with my wah-la and drew the bow."


Wow! That's even worse!

I was asking my teacher about a math problem via email. I was about to say "I was about to do the math when..." But my iPad's autocorrect changed math to meth. Thankfully I caught it... School filters might slightly frown upon that kind of conversation .
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#15 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 5:15 AM
Quote: Originally posted by hugbug993
Also, spelling "viola" as "wah-la"


I read wollah...
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Mordecai and Rigby
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#16 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 5:34 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Eronel
Spelling voila as viola? I kid, honest mistake
Anyway, the worst spelling mistake I've ever seen was when the lunch lady at school put an E at the end of "go"

Reminds me of the time there was a sign in the school cafeteria that said monies. Sure, monies is a word but who uses that? It would have made more sense if it said "all money will be transferred to the student's account".
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#17 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 8:18 AM
Someone posted a picture of a farmer's sign on a linguistic group I was in. Only, instead of Fresh Veggies, there was an A in the second word.

My most embarrassing autocorrect moment was when I wanted to describe an enemy in my game. Kill-bot turned into kilobit. I decided to call the tiny kill-bots Kilobits in honor of the mistake.
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#18 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 9:03 AM
The autocorrect features of many computer programs are far from infallible. In fact, the word autocorrect itself is one word, yet the program here is underlining it in red, as if it were wrong.
Compound words are typically wrongly flagged by autocorrect bots, which is unfortunate, because it adds to people's confusion over spelling and usage.
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#19 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 11:02 AM
Quote: Originally posted by AmandieLove
My mom once wrote a business letter dealing with something 'public'... but she forgot to put that l in there.

Ah that reminds me of the recent Twitter meme about a girl saying once her boyfriend had left in the morning her pillow still smelt of his colon.
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#20 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 12:17 PM
I catch myself interchanging Definitely and Defiantly a lot
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#21 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 1:16 PM
The worst? Has to be the word one of my doctors wrote in a summary. He used a dictaphone (you talk, the computer writes - or tries to write, anyway). Unfortunately, I can't remember what the word was, but I still have no clue what he tried to write since it didn't even look like a word.

My aunt frequently misspells words when she's writing SMS messages. Sometimes I don't have a clue what she's trying to write. And in the word meaning "congratulations" in my language, she (and her kids) are always missing the last letter (it's like writing "congratulation").

Our newspaper tends to misspell words or write weird sentences all the time. I've gotten several laughs from that.
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#22 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 2:25 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Nillson
I catch myself interchanging Definitely and Defiantly a lot


Definately!
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#23 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 3:59 PM Last edited by TARLACHRed : 13th Jul 2015 at 2:30 PM.
Not a misspelling per se, but more of a verbal typo, I suppose. There was this girl from our club presenting at one of the club meetings... but every other word she tried to say, she mispronounced, whether it be of English or Japanese origin. Manga was turned into mango. Anime turned into "aaaanimaeeeyyy." Then, she started talking about drawing software. Photoshop, PaintTool SAI... and then FireAlpaca. However, she didn't say "alpaca."

She said "Africa." She was absolutely serious, too.

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#24 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 5:24 PM
I got called a snob for saying a word different to the way my friend said the word. can't remember what that word was, but we were talking about different dialects from different regions.

and on Thursday, I caught a bad grammar in a newspaper. then instead of than was used. pisses me off.
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#25 Old 12th Jul 2015 at 5:47 PM
What is my worst spelling error you ask? Oh, I know you said, "seen", but my own spelling and grammar mistakes are legendary, especially since modern times and with editing my remarks poorly and being in the internet too early or too late. There are too many to count, hard to pick a favorite. Maybe the best is when I misspell my own name or put an extra "e" after with. When I was younger and was unclear if a word had an "n" or an "m" in the middle, or if I couldn't remember how many, I'd simply make a row of loops and hope it turned out ok.
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