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Best spelling mistakes
Just seen someone type torrential in their facebook status, except managed to spell it 'terenchial'.
Interesting use of phonetic spelling at any rate...
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06-02-2009, 13:34
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Do you want to hide in my box?
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Dyslexic? Looks very similar to how a dyslexic friend of mine spells it. His spelling is atrocious but it does sort of make sense as it's all phonetic.
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06-02-2009, 13:35
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Yeah that's definitely a dyslexic way.
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06-02-2009, 13:38
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Not as far as I am aware...
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06-02-2009, 13:45
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The Mouse King of Denmark
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Sweet Jeebus! 'Forget the dictionary, I'm spelling this shizzle phonetically!'
Apologies for once again pimping the Adam & Joe podcast, but they have an occasional feature called 'Eggcorns', which is kind of the spoken version of spelling mistakes. It's where someone has misheard a common word or phrase and thinks it's something entirely differently. A good one the other day was an email someone got saying "Do you say 'rocksack', or 'rupsack'?". I propose people post their favourite Eggcorns as well as spelling mistakes!
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06-02-2009, 13:47
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'To all intensive purposes' is one that amuses me
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06-02-2009, 13:59
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The Mouse King of Denmark
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Yep, that's one of the ones they mentioned! Classic!
'Can't be asked.' is another one. People try and justify it as 'If you asked me to do it, I wouldn't. So I can't be asked'. It's 'arsed'!
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06-02-2009, 14:02
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The Mouse King of Denmark
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Haha! 'Cut off your nose despite your face.'
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My minds totally drawing a blank at the moment - as for spellings, I know some people who simply "carn't".
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06-02-2009, 16:39
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The Mouse King of Denmark
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Oh my god! Two eggcorns in the space of five minutes in my office:
"I'm going to change my name by default." (deed poll) "Maybe it's defected?" (defective) I've actually been rolling around laughing!
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