Spelling that makes you cringe

[hellymedic]

BBC cannot spell name of its own veteran presenter on a News website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26487430
I am very intolerant when names are wrong; it seems discourteous.

[Dibdib]

looks like they've fixed it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Humphrys

[hellymedic]

Seems they have. It was 'John Humphreys' when I posted.
It was still 'Humphreys' on the BBC News website's front page at 21.20.

[Andrij]

Sign in the window of Viet Cafe on Eastcheap (London):

We'r Recruiting

 

[Pedaldog.]

"Should Of.... " instead of "Should Have".   
Definate is definitely definite.

[Pedaldog.]

I allus spell separately wrong thobut!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/7930745/Separate-is-most-commonly-misspelt-word.html

[madcow]

A beautiful family home formally the Victorian built School House,

Missing comma after "home" as well .

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

It's only a small thing, but 'miniscule'..  It's a failing that makes me think their school must have been pathetic.

[jsabine]

And have their dates in English. Marec. Sheesh.

[Pickled Onion]

Center. Really? I expect HMRC (and scammers) to be able to spell.

You're lucky, the first ones I got of those said "Tax Refound".

Thankfully they corrected that and sent a new version. Ten times.

[Vince]

BBC News website showed an 'ariel' view of the floods yesterday.

Seems appropriate if it was The Little Mermaid watching the flooding.

[hellymedic]

It's only a small thing, but 'miniscule'..  It's a failing that makes me think their school must have been pathetic.

I molished 'pluscule' in Ye Shedde so that we all remembered the spelling of its antonym...

[anotherdeadhero]

Slightly off topic because kids' mis-spellings aren't cringeworthy: they are often delightful.

I once had a very exciting story to mark, written by an 8-year-old, which was set in Africa. All kinds of creatures appeared, but my favourite was the austridge.

On another occasion, a colleague and I were responsible for teaching maths to some very challenged 11/12 year olds. We set some homework one day and the following week one lad appeared with a picture of the world's tallest land mammal that he's drawn and a letter from his mum along the lines that she couldn't see what this had to do with mathematics.

We had told them all to draw a graph.

Similarly I was once asked to turn in an essay on euthanasia. I duly turned in a fair to middling paper on Youth in Asia.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Slightly off topic because kids' mis-spellings aren't cringeworthy: they are often delightful.

I once had a very exciting story to mark, written by an 8-year-old, which was set in Africa. All kinds of creatures appeared, but my favourite was the austridge.

IIRC the Austridge was a car model intended to mark the merger between Austin and Morris in 1952.  Needless to say it never took off and this would probably explain the confusion.

[clarion]

Here's an impressive example: Three different spellings of the same common word on a single poster!

[nicknack]

Shame they couldn't have managed to get Febrewairy in there too.

[hellymedic]

From the Harrow Times...


<<Unused garages which were a magnate for anti-social behaviour have been demolished.>>

[clarion]

P4184243 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

[Cudzoziemiec]

I'm disappointed to discover that the origin of the word pumpkin seems to be from a Greek word for melon, rather than having the same root as pumpernickel.

Cringeworthy capitalisation in the notice telling people to bring a backup battery.

[clarion]

Yes, that was a bit wince-making.

[Wowbagger]

P4184243 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

Shortly before I left real teaching I witnessed our teacher-in-charge-of-science putting up a display centred around a rainbow. The colours were in the order red-yellow-orange-green-blue-indigo-violet. When I took her quietly to one side to point out the error she said "Oh it doesn't matter!"  and indeed 

I asked her if it would be OK for me arbitrarily to rearrange my week so that it went Mon-Wed-Tue-Thu-Fri. Perhaps the most annoying part was that she was being paid more than me for being the science specialist.

My interesting spelling error today was "iminumu" which I achieved when trying to type "minimum".

[Pickled Onion]

Science and primary teaching are, sadly, circles that rarely intersect. When mine were in primary one of the teachers contacted me for help: she'd put a few of her yr 6's in for the higher SAT in science, but, she said, "I don't understand the answers in the mark scheme, and neither does any other member of staff, so I don't know if they've got the answers right or not".

My interesting spelling error today was "iminumu" which I achieved when trying to type "minimum".

That is interesting. All letters up and down from each other with just two fingers of the same hand. My typing mistakes normally happen with letters from both hands and I get all the correct letters but they're in the wrong order. Often completely scrambled like an anagram.

[red marley]

Shortly before I left real teaching I witnessed our teacher-in-charge-of-science putting up a display centred around a rainbow. The colours were in the order red-yellow-orange-green-blue-indigo-violet. When I took her quietly to one side to point out the error she said "Oh it doesn't matter!"  and indeed 

I asked her if it would be OK for me arbitrarily to rearrange my week so that it went Mon-Wed-Tue-Thu-Fri. Perhaps the most annoying part was that she was being paid more than me for being the science specialist.

While I struggle to think it helpful to place 'yellow' before 'orange' in a rainbow sequence, she was perhaps not being quite as cringeworthy as it first seems. Objectively there are not seven colours in a rainbow - it is a continuum to which we attach labels to parts of which our eyes are particularly sensitive. That in part is determined by convention rather than objective science. For example, any who grew up as native Russian speakers will have two 'blues' in a rainbow (голубой and синий) and no 'indigo'.

[T42]

My interesting spelling error today was "iminumu" which I achieved when trying to type "minimum".

The hands (or cerebellum or whatever) seem to be programmed with the letter sequences we use most often - whole words, but also common strings such as -ing, -ght etc. Sometimes I find that my fingers get all the right letters but in the wrong sequence, especially when one hand "fires" out of sync with the other.

Back when I was writing an awful lot in C I couldn't type the word print without an f on the end.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I've noticed it's difficult to type a word ending in '-in' without reflexively adding a 'g'. This doesn't happen when handwriting though.