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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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dayswithaY · 15/07/2020 20:35

My favourite has to be "Jacket Potato'es" covering all grammar bases and hoping for the best.

MotherOfGreyhound · 15/07/2020 20:35

Someone trying to rehome a cat on local FB page announcing that "She has been spade" !

ThisAintNoDisco · 15/07/2020 20:36

My nephew texted to say he was having Dolphin Wah potatoes for dinner. He's 25.

goose1964 · 15/07/2020 20:37

Someone on Facebook put up a" redneck shopping list" on Facebook it was all spent out phonetically I did manage most of it but was stumped by Margon.

CaptainMyCaptain · 15/07/2020 20:40

When I was teaching my 5 year olds often spelt 'couldn't' as 'cunt'. (Northern accent)

DawnAnn · 15/07/2020 20:42

Someone I know on Facebook regularly writes everythink and anythink, rather than everything and anything.

OldQueen1969 · 15/07/2020 20:43

More of a language barrier issue, but DP and I had been to Munich for an event we were participating in and had a driver to take us to the airport afterwards. We had a fair amount of time to kill, and were getting on like a house on fire with the driver, who suggested he take us to a Middle Aged fair happening nearby.

DP and I are in our early 50s and were mid 40s but we are "alternative" (and probably slightly immature) - so we exchanged horrified looks, both stricken with ideas of caravans, anoraks, cruises and beige (all lovely if that's your thing of course, but definitely not on our list of interests - though there's still time I suppose).

It transpired he meant a medieval re-enactment event and we had a great couple of hours drinking beer and singing along to heavy metal renditions of medieval drinking songs, but for a horrible lost in translation moment we thought we had passed our sell by date and never even noticed.......

iklboo · 15/07/2020 20:45

Shop near us used to advertise Bed's Sofa's Mattress'es

Whatthebloodyell · 15/07/2020 20:47

Parse the parsel

IWantToBeNynaeve · 15/07/2020 20:54

A friend on FB always writes 'knotting like a spa day/night out/whatever ' instead of 'nothing like'. Every single time.

GameSetMatch · 15/07/2020 20:55

I was looking if I still had the picture but sadly not, in Cape Verde reading a menu in a restaurant ‘sheep flesh salad’

Igglepigglesgrubbyblanket · 15/07/2020 20:57

chregure - treasure
sore - sorry

Both from primary kids.
Dare mis I am verr sore for punshing jorden. I will not do it again. From Charlie

sore was very common, chregure was a unique spelling straight from the people who brought you phonics the religion.

Queenoftheashes · 15/07/2020 20:58

The most common ones I see are loose (lose) and lead (led)

JoandLily · 15/07/2020 21:00

Eysikle......... icicle 😐

PrincessPain · 15/07/2020 21:00

I hate "ower" for our.
And most people who do it still write the rest in text speak. Why take away half the letters from most words, and yet add more to other ones?

BikeRunSki · 15/07/2020 21:02

@goose1964 -margarine?

Mamette · 15/07/2020 21:03

You will have to deal with the reaper cushions of this!

Avelosa · 15/07/2020 21:03

Oh I’m loving theseGrin

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Avelosa · 15/07/2020 21:05

@Tunnocks34 harry noes is so cute!

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Avelosa · 15/07/2020 21:05

Bows even! This isn’t going well for me is it🤦🏻‍♀️

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Miriel · 15/07/2020 21:07

At the beginning of a horror story, 'do not read this story if you are sacred' (scared).

Haemogoblin for haemoglobin. Tiny goblins in your blood!

And in the early years, a proudly-displayed piece of work where 'can't' had been written as 'cunt' several times.

Chicchicchicchiclana · 15/07/2020 21:09

I love these!

My favourite is "say lavvy" for "c'est la vie".

My boss, whose name was admittedly quite difficult (Caradoc) once had a letter addressed to him as Craddock. I chuckled at that for days.

Fuckinellitsme · 15/07/2020 21:10

'Rest bite' for 'respite'

'Swayed hangbag' on eBay

And not necessarily a spelling one, but one of DH's colleagues, when asked to spell words with an 'O' in them, would say 'O for otango'. It's an animal, apparently.

Fuckinellitsme · 15/07/2020 21:12

Oh and also 'imparticular' (in particular. I think. Guessing from context) and 'blayntently' (blatantly. Again, guessing from context).

Dhalandchips · 15/07/2020 21:14

A TA in a school I used to work in wrote on a wall display, for all to see, about our class assemberly. So embarrassing!