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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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Warsawa31 · 16/07/2020 08:06

covfefe

Avelosa · 16/07/2020 08:09

@JMG1234 at my old job if I was ever putting a customer on hold I would ask if they would mind just bearing with me. Until one day an older man very creepily said “I would love to bear with you”. I’ve never said it sinceBlush

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BikeRunSki · 16/07/2020 08:19

@CaptainMyCaptain, @Mamette and @EatsShootsAndRuns

Sorry, I fell foul of autocorrect and not proof reading my post. I agree that “fruition” is correct; my old boss used to say “fruit ition” .

Malbecblooms · 16/07/2020 08:20

I once saw some Christmas reefs for sale.

Sadly, they were regular holly ones with no fishes included.

psychomath · 16/07/2020 08:23

Not just any chog. The head chog. GrinGrinGrin

BelfastNonBlonde · 16/07/2020 08:25

@Warsawa31

Covfefe

Good one! 🤣

M9152 · 16/07/2020 08:25

I have seen 'pasted' used instead of passed e.g I have just pasted my exam

I would have understood why they may have used past but not the extra ed Grin

Cfdmorris · 16/07/2020 08:26

I have major issues with spelling. “O” level needlework mock exam: wrote a whole long answer to a question where I discussed the benefits of Durex
Staff room in hysterics apparently as I explained how durex fabric is an artificial fabric with a metallic look that is great for partying 😂😂😂

MortyFide · 16/07/2020 08:34

I saw a text from a young man to his father placing his order from the chippy. He asked for a "batty sossoge".

MrsFruitcake · 16/07/2020 08:35

Micheal instead of Michael - see it loads. Someone was selling a Michael Kors bag on FB the other day and spelt the name the wrong way - I was a bit Hmm- if the item is presumably right in front of you and you still can't get it right there's something amiss!

TheBeeatAmbridge · 16/07/2020 08:35

Someone on my facebook has posted about enjoying coisonts (croissants) for breakfast before

KatherineJaneway · 16/07/2020 08:36

Sorry for the incontinence.

WinterAndRoughWeather · 16/07/2020 08:37

@Cfdmorris

That reminds me of a GSCE drama essay I wrote in which I discussed a character’s “dissentry”.

I meant dissent, but my teacher was most amused.

EatsShootsAndRuns · 16/07/2020 08:38

@BikeRunSki ah that makes sense! Grin

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 16/07/2020 08:42

Not a stand-out one, but many moons ago I did much of the sewing of the cookery apron a dd was (supposed to be) making at school. She loathed needlework.

I’m pretty good at sewing so was 50/50 amused/pissed off to get ‘C+. Neatness and accuracy are 2 skills which you must practice.’

(The verb is ‘practise’)

MoreJammyDodgersPlease · 16/07/2020 08:49

I decided against looking at a flat in a block with the benefit of an "uninformed concierge".

attillathenun · 16/07/2020 09:08

Had a colleague who always called St Pancras station St Pancreas, lol she’d only been getting the train to work and arriving at that station for about 15 years Confused

Currently got someone on a local Facebook group selling packs of baby Muslims instead of baby muslins

Aposterhasnoname · 16/07/2020 09:15

Just seen this gem on facebook

To ask for the most random misspelling you’ve ever seen?
blueskys72 · 16/07/2020 09:15

I read a cv for a job in catering where the applicant had work in a "brassiere" instead of the usual brasserie GrinGrin

Also signage at our workplace telling us to keep "two meters" apart. Gas meters? Electric meters? Hmm

PunishmentSnart · 16/07/2020 09:18

Remember on a thread on here when someone wrote ‘boil in the vag’ rice instead of boil in the bag Grin

Pandamumium · 16/07/2020 09:37

Once had a Year 7 child write in a review of their year, “I must improve on my seplings”.

I couldn’t agree more.

LemonBreeland · 16/07/2020 09:40

I knew someone who once wrote phenomena for pneumonia

Malbecblooms · 16/07/2020 10:11

I weep a few silent tears every time I see "must of" / "could of" / "that's the problem with the children been of school"

Riv · 16/07/2020 10:29

@WinterAndRoughWeather
You need to know the correct spelling of a word (or at least the first 3 letters) to look it up in a dictionary. Also it’s difficult to look up some of the phrases eg Chester and Drawers are both spelt correctly, where would you look it up to find the correct term? Especially if you are unaware of the term “idiom”. Even when you are, a dictionary of idiom is even harder to use to check incorrect use.

Springersrock · 16/07/2020 10:31

A tyre company who repaired a tyre for me wrote on the receipt

“Puncher”