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Most amusing spelling mistakes you have seen on mumsnet

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GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 05/08/2011 15:38

One which made me laugh - a mner was complaining about her bin collections or something and said she was going to call the council to complain. She spelled it as cancel. Can just imagine that being said in saft London accent, could see why she spelled it that way the dozy mare.

Here Here comes up a LOT on here. It makes me curl my lip.

Chest of draws.

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Frexylady · 05/08/2011 15:51

Excellent.

Was mortified when I used to work as a secretary and accidentally typed my boss's business development expenses as "Bustiness Development". Oops.

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GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 05/08/2011 15:52

Hahah bustiness development. What a freudian slip Grin

Persay for per se.

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catinboots · 05/08/2011 15:53

I personally like Chester Draws

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Frexylady · 05/08/2011 15:57

Well he was a bit of a perv actually so luckily he saw the funny side.

Like nails down the blackboard when I see "Strawberrie's" for sale at the local grocer. Why?????

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AbsDuCroissant · 05/08/2011 15:57

There's the infamous "grammer police"

I'll try and think of more.

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Jjou · 05/08/2011 15:58

The nethuns invader last year (?) who got all arsey about the GRAMMER POLICE!!! made me laugh. She wrote it like that too, all flouncy and dramatic, and proved people's points in one short burst. Classic. Grin

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OTheHugeManatee · 05/08/2011 15:59

Wolef still wins Grin

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FerretMum · 05/08/2011 16:01

Not on mn I know, but when I was a student nurse, I was writing an essay about the heart and wanted to say "The heart is a hollow muscular organ, about the size of a clenched fist and shaped like a blunt cone..." (shamelessly lifted out of Tortora...) What I wrote was "... about the size of a clenched fist and shaped like a blunt c#nt..."

Fortunately, I did re-read my efforts and was able to correct this before I handed it in, lol!

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Disasterpiece · 05/08/2011 16:02

Anything Chaos has ever written.

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Reality · 05/08/2011 16:03

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GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 05/08/2011 16:04

[wunk]

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GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 05/08/2011 16:05

There was a cracking one a couple of months ago, however it was on a serious thread and I obviously couldn't point and laugh.

Oh bloody hell I can't remember what it was

It was THE funniest typo.

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FerretMum · 05/08/2011 16:09

I like buttery hillocks... Now DD has arrived I thought I ought to tone down my previously for my ears only road rage language, buttery hillocks will be a good substitute...

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ObviouslyOblivious · 05/08/2011 16:10

I have today seen mention of a jack rustle. I laughed.

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GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 05/08/2011 16:16

Hahahahaha jack Rustle - that's marvellous.

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Disasterpiece · 05/08/2011 16:16

Ive just seen someone offer bugs instead of hugs Grin

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Frexylady · 05/08/2011 16:17

Ah, that's so cute, I want one.

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debka · 05/08/2011 16:23

Of course there's the ubiquitous muslim used to wipe up baby sick Grin

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Goldensnitchberry · 05/08/2011 16:24

Admittedly not on MN, but I liked this one ... a colleague who was leaving put a card up on the notice board at work to thank everyone for the 'velchers' they had given her. It took me a moment to work out that she meant vouchers.

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 05/08/2011 16:25

I was going to say being put on a pedal stool. How would that WORK? Is that not, sort of, a unicycle?

PMSL at buttery hillocks. Stealing that.

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 05/08/2011 16:26

Something easy is always known as a "piece of sips" in my family, due to puritan phone autocorrecting.

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SecretNutellaFix · 05/08/2011 16:28

I once asked someone, on here, if their new boyfriend was a good cook, the night after they had had a date. Except it didn't come out as "cook", no sirree, I managed to substitute a "c" for the second "o". Highly embarrassing. For me at any rate.

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AbsDuCroissant · 05/08/2011 16:31

My mom once infamously referred to "bunny huggers" as "honey buggers". She still hasn't lived that down, after literally years.

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ShirleyKnot · 05/08/2011 16:31

Someone accidently posted that someone else "didn't have a keg to stand on legally"

That was today and made me larff.

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ObviouslyOblivious · 05/08/2011 16:32

I always smile when someone writes moths instead of months:

"It took me three whole moths to finish it".

Poor little things :(

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