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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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ImFree2doasiwant · 15/07/2020 19:50

@LockdownLump you beat me to it, I LOVE that one.

susandelgado · 15/07/2020 19:50

I shop near us has a sign on the window
Cigarettes
Alcohol
Diary products

BikeRunSki · 15/07/2020 19:51

@WorraLiberty

Someone in my local Facebook group was talking about a cul-de-sac

Except they put 'Colder sack' Grin

We live in one. When DD was 3 she called it a Cuddle Sac. The term had stuck. Smile.

Not so much a spelling error, as a misplaced apostrophe, a sign at Washington Services on the A1 about 20 years ago, inviting people to “Cho’ose” their breakfast.

YouBringLightInToADarkPlace · 15/07/2020 20:10

In Dunelm once and I saw a sign above some wall plaques advertising "assorted plagues £3.99".

Also a flat for rent with (I assume) gas central heating written as G.S.H, which I hoped was a good sense of humour.

Riojasmoothy · 15/07/2020 20:13

Priminster! as in Boris Johnson is the current priminster.

cardibach · 15/07/2020 20:14

I’m quite fond of shandle ears.

BellyMama · 15/07/2020 20:17

Saw a for sale post the other day on my Facebook marketplace for a trambuline - made my day 😂

letmethinkaboutitfornow · 15/07/2020 20:21

Last weekend , town centre - you would thought this is a word that everyone can spell by now 🤔🤔

To ask for the most random misspelling you’ve ever seen?
NeverTalksToStrangers · 15/07/2020 20:21

My ds2 wrote about a head chog for his homework. He was about 7 at the time.

Not just any chog. The head chog.
Still gets me every time.Grin

TheWhalrus · 15/07/2020 20:22

I once saw a sign saying 'deserts half price' outside a cafe.

cptartapp · 15/07/2020 20:24

"Flying high with the angles"

iklboo · 15/07/2020 20:24

There's a garage not far from me who offer "puncher repairs".

Maybe it's a health farm for boxers Grin

Tunnocks34 · 15/07/2020 20:25

My husbands cousins can’t spell easier. She writes ‘easyyer’.

OhioOhioOhio · 15/07/2020 20:25

Eye dear for idea.

Tunnocks34 · 15/07/2020 20:26

My 6 year old has just given me a letter asking for a bag of ‘Harry bows’

dayswithaY · 15/07/2020 20:29

One time we were selling raffle tickets and a colleague wrote down someone's name as "Joan's" instead of " Jones".

A cafe wrote "Sawsidge" on a board - I mean, you're a cafe, could you not check the spelling for future reference?

DrDiva · 15/07/2020 20:29

I am still very fond of the card I got from a child when I left a teaching job, that said “sorry you are living.”

TroysMammy · 15/07/2020 20:30

I was a secretary during the Gulf War and a colleague typed on a customer's record "about the difficulties his business was experiencing due to the war in Q8."

Prettyprettyplease · 15/07/2020 20:30

There's a GP surgery near my in laws' house which has a big and rather expensive-looking sign outside with all the GP and other practitioners' titles and names - including the 'physiotherpist'. The weird thing is, there's another sign on the other side of the building, almost identical except that physiotherapist is spelt correctly on that one.

blueskys72 · 15/07/2020 20:30

A teacher(!) wrote about a student doing "chaws" at home Hmm

Doggybiccys · 15/07/2020 20:32

Eating sangwitches
Going for a game of bagmington

Carlamity · 15/07/2020 20:32

A letter from a large insurance company to a customer several times offering him a retirement 'penis' !

Doggybiccys · 15/07/2020 20:33

I used to work in a hospital and there was a move around of wards and the new sign to one of the wards had an arrow and the words “Hamatology” Grin

Carlamity · 15/07/2020 20:34

Also a translated menu outside a restaurant in Italy: Stewed dick with various herbs! Mmmm ....

Elsiebear90 · 15/07/2020 20:35

My fiancée’s aunt spells things in the most bizarre ways on Facebook, these are her “regulars” that I find the most strange:

-L instead of I, for example, “L woke up late this morning”

-Resutes instead of results (she’s very vocal about her many health problems)

-G1 instead of GP

-Stomace instead of stomach

-Northing instead of nothing

  • R instead of heart, example “My R is racing again”

Makes no sense to me, because she then spells longer more complicated words perfectly like “government“, “disappointed”, “distancing” etc.