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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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reelingintheyears · 05/08/2011 19:49

You're all mean....they might all be displexics.

Psammead · 05/08/2011 19:50

I once proudly announced that my husband always greets me when he wanks in the house...

And some evil bitch one picked me up on it.

Walk I meant walks.

MatthewWrightOffTheTelly · 05/08/2011 19:52

Muslims can also prove a useful cover up when beastfeeding in public debka Grin

NormanTebbit · 05/08/2011 19:56

I saw a poster tell another to stop being so "mellow dramatic" once which made me giggle.

hocuspontas · 05/08/2011 20:00

Love all these! There have been some good ones. I like reading 'friends' with the 'r' missing - completely changes the meaning!

5inthebed · 05/08/2011 20:03

A thread ages ago, was moaning about getting sent from pillow to post about something.

bandgeek · 05/08/2011 20:17

This is hilarious! Grin

MadameLupino · 05/08/2011 20:25

I see a lot of 'free reign' on MN. I had to google it to check I was right using 'free rein'.Grin

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 05/08/2011 20:35

I can see I'm not the only one, but anything Chaos posts is likely to have a fabulous typo in it. Grin

PelvicFloorOfSteel · 05/08/2011 20:38

At work the spellcheck turns helpdesk into helpless until you set it up properly, our team is supposed to be the helpdesk but most of our customers seemed to find helpless more apt. Grin

Psammead · 05/08/2011 20:57

A place I used to work changed 'Woolwich' (building society) into 'workaholic' which was ironic as we were usually sending them letters to try and get their arses into gear.

AnotherJaffaCake · 05/08/2011 21:29

I remember a place I worked at used to write to a firm in Blandford. The spell check always changed Blandford to blindfold.

My great aunt used to own a couple of butchers shops and needed a new butcher to work at both of them and do the whole job. Her job advert went "butcher wanted - must be able to drive and kill". I always wondered if the pork pies were made of hedgehog after I heard that.

DoesItWearingWellies · 05/08/2011 21:41

On a thread the other day about a spelling mistake on Sainsbury's macaroni, someone wrote, "Is this one of those pendant jokes?" Grin

CupcakesandTwunting · 05/08/2011 21:43

Chaos wrote the other week "incontinence" where she meant to write "inconvenience" I can't remember what she was blathering on about that time but it made me snort-LOL.

BuckminsterFullerene · 05/08/2011 21:44

I don't eat misspelled food. So at the cafe we sometimes go to after BF group, I did not have the "Chessy Chips".

And I haven't been back since.

DogsBestFriend · 05/08/2011 21:47

I recall the MNer with a dodgy L key on her PC and whose DH had a ticking cock!

Apparently I very recently referred to someone who was exchanging heated debate with me and whose user name includes the word Morning as "Moroning".

Allegedly. Wink :o

GetOrfMoiSamsungFridgeFreezer · 05/08/2011 21:50

I love love loved chaos's thread where her keyboard was defunkt and she didn't have an o key, s0 everything she typed had zer0es in it as a replacement. It was very funny in a c0mpletely rand0m way, bless her.

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NanAstley · 05/08/2011 21:59

There was a thread where the OP was talking of her son's birthday party at a pizza place. One throwaway sentence was something like "I was feeding the boys" except that she misspelt feeding as feeling Grin

That one made my week!!

180 · 05/08/2011 22:01

Still find cumcumber for cucumber amusing

AuntieBulgaria · 05/08/2011 22:17

On here que or queue rather than cue makes me wince.

In real life I've had an email from a supplier asking me to 'bare with him'. I don't mind waiting mate but I'm not doing it naked.

My boss completed an internal magazine article by saying the famous person he'd most like to meet was the legendary footballer Booby Moore. Grin

WheelsOnTheBike · 05/08/2011 22:30

Not a mumsnet one, but when I sat my secretarial studies o'grade prelim, part of the typing was a list of evening classes.

To my shame I typed that the local high school was offering French cockery lessons!

WheelsOnTheBike · 05/08/2011 22:42

Was it chaos who posted the immortal ''I'll take you up the front'' line?

Our old work computer used to change the phrase 'uniformed police officers' to ''uninformed police officers'', which I loved.

flatbellyfella · 05/08/2011 22:55

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CupcakesandTwunting · 05/08/2011 23:09

I once typed "seriously, gays" when I meant to type "seriously, guys" Blush

I expected to get pitchforked but luckily I just got a light ribbing.

notnowImreading · 05/08/2011 23:17

I got a thank you card from one of the boys in my (GCSE English - oh the shame) class that said 'Deer Mrs, thak you for everythink, you are truley a grat techer. Sorry for been sech a wanger.'