Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe (Read 171478 times)

ElyDave · « **Reply #500 on:** 03 March, 2016, 07:58:39 pm »

Pull Chord for Alarm

In our disabled toilet cubicle at work

Torslanda · « **Reply #501 on:** 04 March, 2016, 12:36:24 am »

I'll name that tune in one!

hellymedic · « **Reply #502 on:** 08 March, 2016, 07:31:31 pm »

My latest Freegle post is offering me an 'Ambipur defuser'...

Legs · « **Reply #503 on:** 10 March, 2016, 11:05:53 am »

I saw a lorry from PALLLETLINE yesterday...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #504 on:** 10 March, 2016, 11:21:10 am »

A lllorry, surely.

Ian H · « **Reply #505 on:** 15 March, 2016, 09:50:03 am »

When did people start imagining that 'reckon' should be spelt 'recon'?

Guy · « **Reply #506 on:** 15 March, 2016, 10:04:20 am »

About the same time that people started spelling morale as "moral", pedal as "peddle" and kerb as "curb"

Jakob W · « **Reply #507 on:** 15 March, 2016, 04:09:57 pm »

I think 'moral' is the original spelling though, or at least was the more common up until the Second World War.

Ian H · « **Reply #508 on:** 15 March, 2016, 04:33:12 pm »

Quote from: Guy on 15 March, 2016, 10:04:20 am

About the same time that people started spelling morale as "moral", pedal as "peddle" and kerb as "curb"

Or even curb as "kerb"... possibly.

Torslanda · « **Reply #509 on:** 17 March, 2016, 02:34:48 pm »

Quote from: Jakob W on 15 March, 2016, 04:09:57 pm

I think 'moral' is the original spelling though, or at least was the more common up until the Second World War.

I don't know about WWII but to me 'moral' is to do with right and wrong, whilst 'morale' is to do with how you're feeling. Two completely different words...

Jakob W · « **Reply #510 on:** 17 March, 2016, 03:27:13 pm »

Right, but originally 'moral' seems to have covered both meanings; eg interwar theorists talked about the 'moral effect' of bombing.

ElyDave · « **Reply #511 on:** 18 March, 2016, 07:47:53 am »

Or the effect on the enemy's morale

cygnet · « **Reply #512 on:** 18 March, 2016, 07:05:15 pm »

I think that a moral effect would certainly affect morale.

T42 · « **Reply #513 on:** 19 March, 2016, 10:27:26 am »

Quote from: Torslanda on 17 March, 2016, 02:34:48 pm

Quote from: Jakob W on 15 March, 2016, 04:09:57 pm
I think 'moral' is the original spelling though, or at least was the more common up until the Second World War.

I don't know about WWII but to me 'moral' is to do with right and wrong, whilst 'morale' is to do with how you're feeling. Two completely different words...

Agree, but "moral" goes a bit further. During WW1 "low moral fibre" meant a character defect more related to courage and resilience than right or wrong. You could be LMF without being immoral. That hooks it up to "morale".

Google's Ngrams show "moral" going back a long way, whereas the "morale" curve only begins to rise during WW1, which made me think it was adopted from the French. In French it's spelt without the E, but English speakers could have added that to put the emphasis on the second syllable.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #514 on:** 19 March, 2016, 10:38:13 am »

Though in those days LMF was such a Bad Thing it meant that, in the eyes of those handing out white feathers at Waterloo Station, you were almost certainly immoral as well. What kind of heathen lowlife doesn't want to stand in no-man's land draped in a Union Jack and shout "Come and get me, you bally baby-bayoneting Hun swine!", eh? They'll be campaigning to give women the vote next!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #515 on:** 20 March, 2016, 02:57:36 pm »

Moral fibre, moral courage, courage of your convictions, etc. The two are clearly linked.

orienteer · « **Reply #516 on:** 22 April, 2016, 05:57:51 pm »

Article on west London local news site about closed tube stations:

Another station that fell fowl of other stations' expansions, Brompton Road once stood in a convenient location for both the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Brompton Oratory.

I guess they chickened out.

hellymedic · « **Reply #517 on:** 22 April, 2016, 06:25:40 pm »

I see Sadiq Khan didn't appear to meet his potential electorate today.

<<Rita Begum and Shakim, 3, wait for Sadiq Khan in vein at Willesden Green Pic credit: Jonathan Goldberg>>

My bold

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #518 on:** 22 April, 2016, 06:32:09 pm »

How bloody annoying!

jsabine · « **Reply #519 on:** 24 April, 2016, 02:10:37 pm »

Well, it is one of the main transport arteries.

Andrij · « **Reply #520 on:** 24 April, 2016, 11:17:22 pm »

Is spelling really that important?

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Legs · « **Reply #521 on:** 25 April, 2016, 12:56:27 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 24 April, 2016, 11:17:22 pm

Is spelling really that important?
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Quite possibly.

I can't possibly be the only person for whom that makes absolutely no sense. Can someone cleverer than me I explain?

Jakob W · « **Reply #522 on:** 25 April, 2016, 01:04:36 pm »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangman_(game) may provide some context.

Andrij · « **Reply #523 on:** 25 April, 2016, 01:06:30 pm »

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Not meant to be clever, just mildly amusing.

Legs · « **Reply #524 on:** 25 April, 2016, 01:09:19 pm »

of course. I think I've got the wrong brain fitted today.