Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe (Read 172258 times)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #300 on:** 05 November, 2014, 12:50:06 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 05 November, 2014, 11:05:27 am

Quote from: jo on 05 November, 2014, 09:30:25 am
I'd say minor and insignificant. It's already an abstraction.

Is it really an abstraction? I'd say it's a fairly literal description, notwithstanding that T-shirts come in various shapes (or that the capital letter T comes in various shapes, for that matter).

Anyway, it's not significant enough for me to lose any sleep over, it just struck me as odd that the "t-shirt" form was explicitly preferred in a style guide.

This is why Proper BRITONS use the form "T-shaped shirt".

clarion · « **Reply #301 on:** 05 November, 2014, 01:52:02 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 05 November, 2014, 09:57:18 am

I thought it was a mint?

Car, surely?

T42 · « **Reply #302 on:** 05 November, 2014, 02:08:38 pm »

When I first heard it I thought it was tea-shirt - same semantic genes as dinner-jacket.

mattc · « **Reply #303 on:** 11 November, 2014, 06:59:41 am »

Barely cringeworthy, but I've seen
"corralling"

spilt rong twice here in 24 hours, both by highly literate/erudite members

Bledlow · « **Reply #304 on:** 13 November, 2014, 09:41:47 am »

Morphe. With an 'e'. As in Road Morphe.

THERE IS NO E IN MORPH!

http://www.topeak.com/products/Morph-Pumps

What next? Dawese Galaxye?

Biggsy · « **Reply #305 on:** 13 November, 2014, 01:53:16 pm »

I think the 3T handlebars were called "Morphe", so it doesn't make me cringe - unlike "Campagnola"!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #306 on:** 13 November, 2014, 06:36:10 pm »

Quote from: Biggsy on 13 November, 2014, 01:53:16 pm

I think the 3T handlebars were called "Morphe", so it doesn't make me cringe - unlike "Campagnola"!

Likewise that foul USAnian abbreviation "Campy"

Bledlow · « **Reply #307 on:** 13 November, 2014, 10:04:25 pm »

Quote from: Biggsy on 13 November, 2014, 01:53:16 pm

I think the 3T handlebars were called "Morphe", so it doesn't make me cringe - unlike "Campagnola"!

Context, innit? Nothing wrong with 'loose' when what is meant is not tight, but when it refers to loss, it makes me cringe. Same here.

Biggsy · « **Reply #308 on:** 14 November, 2014, 10:37:01 am »

So you cringe at every spelling mistake? That's a lot of cringing.

The "Morphe" spelling is understandable and easily forgivable, IMO, because there has been a bike product called that* - so it doesn't make me cringe. It's in the context of bicycle parts.

* Unless I'm mistaken. I'm doubting myself now! Maybe it's 3T Morph? There was also a Morpheus model.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #309 on:** 14 November, 2014, 01:09:03 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 13 November, 2014, 06:36:10 pm

Quote from: Biggsy on 13 November, 2014, 01:53:16 pm
I think the 3T handlebars were called "Morphe", so it doesn't make me cringe - unlike "Campagnola"!

Likewise that foul USAnian abbreviation "Campy"

See also "brifters".

citoyen · « **Reply #310 on:** 16 November, 2014, 07:04:00 pm »

My enterprising son is making some pocket money by printing bespoke T-shirts. His latest commission is for a local Christian youth organisation, yclept thusly:

Kidz Klub

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #311 on:** 16 November, 2014, 07:22:49 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 16 November, 2014, 07:04:00 pm

My enterprising son is making some pocket money by printing bespoke T-shirts. His latest commission is for a local Christian youth organisation, yclept thusly:

Kidz Klub

One of my first jobs was at a T-shirt printing shop, in those days you had to lay out the letters & stencils by hand and use a heat press on each item. On the first day I was asked to help myself from a stack of about 30 hoodies that had taken my predecessor ages to print up, every single one of them perfectly printed with

LEWISHAM
BADMINGTON
CLUB

Bledlow · « **Reply #312 on:** 16 November, 2014, 10:36:03 pm »

Quote from: Biggsy on 14 November, 2014, 10:37:01 am

So you cringe at every spelling mistake? That's a lot of cringing.

Naah. I cringe at those which are not explicable by poor literacy. Lose/loose, for example, I usually see used consistently by certain individuals, very often when the correct spelling is there to be read. Topeak 'Morphe' I usually see used in contexts where the correct spelling is there to be read, in online discussions, often with links to sites which show the product.

That makes me cringe. The word's there to copy, it's short & simple, & still they get it wrong!

hellymedic · « **Reply #313 on:** 17 November, 2014, 12:19:53 am »

Quote from: Pickled Onion on 16 November, 2014, 07:22:49 pm

Quote from: citoyen on 16 November, 2014, 07:04:00 pm
My enterprising son is making some pocket money by printing bespoke T-shirts. His latest commission is for a local Christian youth organisation, yclept thusly:

Kidz Klub

One of my first jobs was at a T-shirt printing shop, in those days you had to lay out the letters & stencils by hand and use a heat press on each item. On the first day I was asked to help myself from a stack of about 30 hoodies that had taken my predecessor ages to print up, every single one of them perfectly printed with

LEWISHAM
BADMINGTON
CLUB

Aah! The Pungent People...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #314 on:** 19 November, 2014, 02:14:31 pm »

There's a hand-painted poster on the wall of the room in which we now hold the Wednesday lunchtime NA meeting. It's got the snappy acronym "HALT" on it to remind people of states of existence to be avoided lest they lead to the use of mind-altering substances. These are:

Hungary
Angry
Lonley
Tired

You can be Romania or Bulgaria without wanting to smoke crack but as soon as those Magyars show up, all bets are off.

T42 · « **Reply #315 on:** 19 November, 2014, 02:17:13 pm »

Quote from: Bledlow on 16 November, 2014, 10:36:03 pm

Quote from: Biggsy on 14 November, 2014, 10:37:01 am
So you cringe at every spelling mistake? That's a lot of cringing.
Naah. I cringe at those which are not explicable by poor literacy. Lose/loose, for example, I usually see used consistently by certain individuals, very often when the correct spelling is there to be read. Topeak 'Morphe' I usually see used in contexts where the correct spelling is there to be read, in online discussions, often with links to sites which show the product.

That makes me cringe. The word's there to copy, it's short & simple, & still they get it wrong!

Yebbut "tests" have shown that the more intelligent someone is the more trouble they have with slavish copying.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #316 on:** 21 November, 2014, 10:36:23 am »

Some very funny ones here on (ahem) Sporcle.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Purple_Parrot/send-me-a-sign

Andrij · « **Reply #317 on:** 21 November, 2014, 10:47:08 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 21 November, 2014, 10:36:23 am

Some very funny ones here on (ahem) Sporcle.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Purple_Parrot/send-me-a-sign

12 is my favourite.

citoyen · « **Reply #318 on:** 21 November, 2014, 11:25:47 am »

Quote from: Andrij on 21 November, 2014, 10:47:08 am

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 21 November, 2014, 10:36:23 am
Some very funny ones here on (ahem) Sporcle.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Purple_Parrot/send-me-a-sign

12 is my favourite.

Yes, I liked that one too. It's a metaphysical conundrum.

I also enjoyed the last one.

clarion · « **Reply #319 on:** 21 November, 2014, 11:52:19 am »

Nine intrigued me.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #320 on:** 21 November, 2014, 12:54:10 pm »

It skipped five questions on the fondleslab chiz and I got the "buffalo nuggets" one wrong. Seems the answer isn't "bison" at all!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #321 on:** 22 November, 2014, 11:30:45 am »

Not even bison futé?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #322 on:** 29 November, 2014, 12:25:35 pm »

My eyes began to boggle when Demand 5 apparently indicated that a programme had first been broadcast on "Tueasday". I took my reading glasses off and the caption was still there

Wowbagger · « **Reply #323 on:** 11 December, 2014, 06:58:49 pm »

Yesterday Mrs. Wow and I were queuing behind a vehicle which had been subjected to the work of a "professional" sign writer. The messages "Intergrated System Design". This ranks alongside the Clacton-based purveyor of sea food who was advertising his "muscles".

hellymedic · « **Reply #324 on:** 24 December, 2014, 12:06:37 pm »

Does the Harrow Times have a drunk headline maker?
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/11684853.Parents_raise___85_000_for_hospital_in_memory_of_daughter/?ref=eb

Parents raise £85,000 for Royal National Orthapedic, Stanmore, in memory of daughter

'Orthopaedic' has correct spelling in body of article.