Miss Pelling -- Your Favorite Misspellings and Typos

[Ken]

OK, seen any gut-breakers lately? Sometimes the typist is just going too fast. Sometimes the typist just cannot spell. And sometimes the typist is British or of that country's old colony's ilk (sorry, Debs).

Share your favorite misspellings/typos and the context in which they went down. Can you cut and paste from L&G as well? Sure. I offer myself up for sacrifice. There are days when I post on the fly, and it's those days when I'm reminded (by you, kind readers) of my old third grade teacher, Miss Pelling.

[Carol]

Was she friends with Master Mind. I love that game.Hmmmm I am not familiar with miss spelled words.hahahahah (off searching for wrongly spelled words)

[Ruth]

What a delcious topic!

[Ken]

Its conciderd a delcacy in Lucksenborg.

[David]

I was attacked by a viscous poodle. Fortunately, it flowed slowley.

[Carol]

Was it pouring out its viscous in your shoe?

[Ruth]

And shall we wait for these events with baited breath?

[Ken]

It would be just desserts.

[Ruth]

Unless our interest has already been peaked.

[Carol]

The vain is desserted.

[Harvey]

Shurely shome mishtake?

[Carol]

I am an atrocoius speller. Thank you spel chek

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I am tolled that this is the plaice to cum if you carnt spell sandles.....

[Carol]

hee hee

[David]

How about "straight-laced" for "strait-laced"?

[Carol]

Good ones hee hee

[Ruth]

Oh my.

[Ken]

Most frequently misspelled words by my students (partial list):


buisness (for business)

preform (for perform)

seperate (for separate)

alright (for all right)

defiantly (for definitely)

tommorow (for tomorrow)

lable (for label)

eigth (for eighth -- their grade)

and, of course, all of the homophones

[Carol]

I am bad for all right . My list is probably longer than theirs. In school I always transposed letters. I was not a bad speller,I had all the letters I just arranged them creatively.

[Ken]

My demons were always the double consonant/single consonant ones, like occasion, which I always wanted to spell "ocassion."

[Carol]

Thank you spell check. :)! Good night I'm going back to bed. By the way just finished Go Down Moses, now I kknow you don't like Faulkner, but this book was funny. It had sad parts also , but I was laughing like crazy.

[Ken]

I'm happy to laugh AT Faulkner, just not with him.

Good night (er, morning), Carol! Sweet (or, better yet, spicy) dreams!

[Shell]

The thing that really drives me wild is when professional signs are produced with real howlers. Near where I work, there are two huge signs that read, "LOADING AREA, CUSTOMERS PLEASE USE MAIN ENTERANCE".

[Ken]

Ah, the E who won't let go! Kind of like "judgEment," that.

[Harvey]

The Gulf has countless examples.... "Flates for rent" is one I enjoyed in Buraimi. There are many examples of "SUPER MARKET" too; usually a small grocery. Actually the groceries provide much interest with "Fruits and Vegetable Whole Sale"....

[Ken]

"Collectibles" seems to collect alternate spellings as a pastime (a.k.a. "past time").

Lots of "sic" to this thread, eh?

[Carol]

You all have my number. I am guilty of almost every one.

[Harvey]

Awwwwwwwwww..... some of us are just stupid!

[Carol]

(raising hand)

[Ken]

We're all stupid. Take it from there.

[Ken]

Enough already!

[Carol]

It's rough when your dog is saying ruff ruff . Go walk the dog.

[Harvey]

Eventually some cells will work!

[Ken]

I wonder if Miss Pelling ever got married?

[Carol]

To Mr. Com Pelling

[Carol]

:)

[Ruth]

As in Vlad the Im Peller?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

OMG.....I think it is time someone called in Constable Dis Pelling!

[Cecily]

Newengland wrote: "Ah, the E who won't let go! Kind of like "judgEment," that."

Ah, but in British English, that is the correct spelling (except for legal documents)!

However, "enterance" is wrong on both sides of the pond.

Gabi wrote: "They haven't been teaching spelling or grammar in school for years......"

Which country are you in, Gabi? It does seem to have made a comeback in England, but it's too early to see if it will stick.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

She lives in Australia......that explains a lot!! ;-P

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Heeheeheehee!!
Ai were spaking about yew, nort too yew!

[Savvy]

Newengland wrote: "I wonder if Miss Pelling ever got married?"

Nah, he was too Re Pelling!

[Carol]

hee hee

[Ken]

Rap-pelling, if he had rocks in his head.

[Carol]

Ex-spelling if he wanted to be absent.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I thought Miss Pelling was a girl! Who did the gender reassignment?!

[Ken]

(S)he lives in Copenhagen. 'Nuff said.

[Harvey]

SecretAgentL wrote: "In a 2006 issue of Ohio's Valley News, the typist misspelled the newspaper's own name as Valley Newss. In a correction the next day, the editor wrote, "We sure feel silly.""

I dare say! Today I came across, on two different roads here in Oman; Mawallah Fruits and Vegetable Market. I did speculate which one veg they were selling.

[Ken]

Oh, man!

[Ruth]

Invariably, every year I would have an Art History student who would refer to the Sistine Chapel as the Sixteenth Chapel.