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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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jeee · 15/08/2011 16:11

As we're doing non-mn spelling mistakes, marking undergraduate essays on theories of criminal punishment I was interested to read an essay on the penile system.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 16/08/2011 16:27

at "penile system". I don't like to think how that would work.

SherlockHolmes · 16/08/2011 16:38

Sausages What's wrong with Umbridge? I always say that ... have I been getting it wrong all these years??

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 16/08/2011 16:39

Er, it's umbrage I think...

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 16/08/2011 16:40

Yep - umbrage

Dolores Umbridge was the Hazel Blears irritating/evil teacher in Harry Potter who instituted the govt control of the school.

SherlockHolmes · 16/08/2011 16:41

Oh - that's ok then, as I've never written it down, or seen it written down as far as I know. Smile

TrillianAstra · 16/08/2011 22:24

Umbridge sounds like a zone 4 tube stop

jimswifein1964 · 20/08/2011 23:38

'It was tand amount to...' Grin

Feenie · 20/08/2011 23:46

There's a thread this evening entitled 'What's Pendant's corner?'

Grin Grin

(Sorry for laughing though, OP of that thread)

jimswifein1964 · 21/08/2011 09:01

Is there? Grin

BodyofChristLegsofTinaTurner · 21/08/2011 09:23

I am not entirely sure if the 'Pendant's Corner' thread is a joke or not. One thing that gets my goat on MN is 'discrete' instead of 'discreet'. It's usually on breastfeeding threads, where the OP says something like 'I saw a woman being today and she wapped both her boobs out at the same time!' cue several MNer insisting that they are very discrete when bfing.

RustyBear · 21/08/2011 10:22

Well, presumably they mean they get theirs out separately.....

Feenie · 21/08/2011 10:25
Grin
Wallace · 21/08/2011 10:49
Grin
NormanTebbit · 22/08/2011 19:29

Rusty no doubt they were 'pouring' over that thread

Boom, boom!

Thistledew · 22/08/2011 19:35

I have to nominate my own thread title. I was trying to get people interested in a cycling thread with a cunning, alliterative and assonant title when my dyslexia reared its ugly head.

Every time I see 'pleasure peddlers' instead of 'pleasure pedallers' I die a little inside. Do you think MN would change it if I asked?

BlushBlushBlush

NormanTebbit · 22/08/2011 19:50
Grin

You made me smile, that's brilliant!

Wallace · 22/08/2011 21:06

Sorry but Grin at "pleasure peddlers"

littlemisssarcastic · 22/08/2011 21:11

Speaking on msn to my XP recently.

Me: How are you?
XP :I'm God
Me :Clearly you're not Grin

Still makes me laugh to think of it, especially when he answered 'Clearly I'm not what?' Grin

Wallace · 28/08/2011 08:00

"dementure" , took me a while to figure it out Grin

whyme2 · 28/08/2011 08:25

I've seen it at work and on here - people writing about the refuge collections. It is refuse collections. No one comes around collecting refuges do they?

Does make me laugh at the thought though.

eicosapentaenoic · 28/08/2011 08:46

mother's traditional dress for voluptuary work (autocorrect on 'phone, heh heh ~ voluntary, I'm hoping)

BarkisIsWillin · 08/09/2011 17:22

(Deep breath, this is my first post) - On another forum in answer to the question regarding best product for cleaning showers - clit bang!

alexpolismum · 10/09/2011 16:17

Not on MN, but it is my favourite spelling mistake of all time:

egog

It took me quite a while to work out that it was supposed to be 'hedgehog'!

inmysparetime · 10/09/2011 16:29

DH got an email about scouts doing "welly wanging" and asking for any spare wellies. Unfortunately all the wellies were autocorrected and the first "e" replaced with an "I". DH burst out laughing in his office and replied that he didn't have a spare willy, let alone a spare pair!