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To ask for the most random misspelling you’ve ever seen?

406 replies

Avelosa · 15/07/2020 16:17

Lightheaded and not judgey as I often spell things wrong!

Someone posted on a recipe group on Facebook asking for ideas of what to make with some beef mince. One of the replies was ‘spaghetti ballanayse’Grin

Anyone else seen any great ones!?

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Hoppinggreen · 24/07/2020 17:14

Years ago I had a boss who used to complain that we were being Unindated with work on a regular basis

DannyGlickWindowTapping · 24/07/2020 17:21

A friend of my nephew is called Mark. Someone mis-spelled his name and he's gone by Mary for over a decade now.

tiredanddangerous · 24/07/2020 17:29

Pisses for princess by then 4 year old dd. Her reception teacher was crying with laughter when dd came rushing out of school to give her lovely drawing of the pisses.

ScrambledSmegs · 24/07/2020 18:00

This made me smile. It's not exactly a misspelling as there's an abbreviation involved as well. Still great.

They also sell Hearty Chokes.

To ask for the most random misspelling you’ve ever seen?
foxtiger · 24/07/2020 22:35

'Retirement Penis' could be mangled pension, autocorrected?

What does it say about the person who typed it if their spellchecker is more familiar with the word penis than pension?

ThunderR0ad78 · 24/07/2020 22:56

My surname is Cole.
I often get mail addressed to Mrs A Hole Grin

PoloNeckKnickers · 25/07/2020 08:22

Outside a shop that sells electrical goods:
'Tumble Dryairs for sale'. I can see the logic in that.

Somanysocks · 25/07/2020 08:31

This one is more of a missing apostrophe but it expands his business somewhat.

To ask for the most random misspelling you’ve ever seen?
Spidey66 · 25/07/2020 08:38

I work as a CPN and an ex colleague of mine had sight problems (more than short or long sightedness) and used some software that he would use to dictate his notes into the computer. However he also had a stammer and a very strong Belfast accent and at times his software picked up the wrong words. I was reading an entry he'd made on a patient's notes where instead of "the patient needs to meet more people" it was written "the patient needs to eat more people."

Avelosa · 30/07/2020 13:22

Just saw someone posted on Facebook that they can’t believe the weather is meant to be 28 the greese tomorrow. Took me ages to work it outGrin

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LoseLooseLucy · 30/07/2020 13:33

Humbridge- my sister last week 😬

Remona · 30/07/2020 13:34

Years ago I worked with a lad called Darren Gough. A parcel arrived for him one day addressed to... Dacron Cough.

Still amuses me to this day and we still always refer to the ex-England cricketer of the same name as Dacron Cough.

HipTightOnions · 30/07/2020 13:52

“Mongetos” on a fruit & veg stall.

Now the family standard pronunciation.

victorisnera · 30/07/2020 14:38

My son chose some swim shorts decorated with sombrellas.

PicklePig31 · 30/07/2020 22:29

Two shay...

Wish I was joking Hmm

Avelosa · 05/09/2020 13:52

Sorry to dredge up my own thread, but I’ve just seen someone talking about a ‘crockerdial’ and it really made me chuckleGrin

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ISpeakBecauseICan · 05/09/2020 22:37

Someone wanted to buy a ‘washing mashing’ on our local Facebook buy and sell page Grin

carbon60 · 05/09/2020 23:20

On a pub menu board
Prawn cocktail with rosemary sauce
Years ago I used to love the horses for sale ads in a certain horsey mag, in the days when they took ads over the phone, one that stuck in my mind was
For sale two arabian fowls , well bread and good confirmation
brilliant!

sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea · 06/09/2020 12:21

Still giggling over the sign in the Yr1 classroom 'You muss tigh dee up'.

@tiredanddangerous I have an entire notebook my DD filled with drawings of 'lovely pisses & pissesses', carefully named & labelled. 'I am a pissess! I shall marry the piss!' still makes me laugh more than it should.

MsEllany · 06/09/2020 13:27

Mrs Brown-Withanee

I was a victim of this at the tender age of 16 in my first job in a chemist. Mrs Ensmith came to collect her prescription, and I couldn’t find it so sent her away to come back later.

She was, of course, Mrs N Smith Blush - in my defence she did insist on saying Mrs ENsmith as one word rather than N Smith! Grin

I see ‘carn’t’ a lot on my local Facebook - genuine misspellings in the days of autocorrect I just don’t understand. How do you manage to mangle a word so badly and then completely ignore the suggested word?!

MsEllany · 06/09/2020 13:27

Oh, and husband and two older children very dyslexic here which leads to much hilarity!

ChessieFL · 06/09/2020 13:27

Years ago on a pub menu the description of the sausage and mash dish explained that the sausages combined pork with many species.

We hoped it was a spelling error for spices but opted for something else just in case!

wowfudge · 06/09/2020 14:16

A local Facebook selling page had someone selling a baigh Mac recently.

Athenajm80 · 06/09/2020 15:10

I was reading comments on a story on FB and a woman called the person she was arguing with a "mum skull". Presumably that was meant to be numbskull.

A poster on here was talking about helping people out and not having sinisism (cynicism). Another poster was asking for reasons for her boyfriend having a used condom in the bin, but it had no 'seamen' inside. Thank goodness for that, otherwise that could have been a whole new thread.

wowfudge · 09/09/2020 11:35

Just seen another beaut: an "in tyre wall" in a house being damp.

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