Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe (Read 171600 times)

Giraffe · « **Reply #1025 on:** 29 April, 2021, 05:51:59 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 28 April, 2021, 09:01:01 pm

CAMRA, shirley?

citoyen · « **Reply #1026 on:** 29 April, 2021, 06:28:42 pm »

Or Kamara, perhaps?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1027 on:** 07 May, 2021, 12:58:53 am »

A placard in the Happy Swedish Halls Of Joy the other day advised me that $PLÅTË makes a pratical lid for the matching BØWL. Right next to the checkouts. Although it’s [“The Death of the Soul” – Mr Sunshine] so no-one else will have noticed.

PhilO · « **Reply #1028 on:** 07 May, 2021, 10:22:04 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 29 April, 2021, 06:28:42 pm

Or Kamara, perhaps?

Or Carnera?

hellymedic · « **Reply #1029 on:** 07 May, 2021, 01:11:35 pm »

Harrow Times online today: HUGE flashy advert fora water softner...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1030 on:** 20 May, 2021, 09:01:01 am »

I'm not sure if this is a typo, a deliberate ambiguity or simply the correct word, but whatever it is, I like it:

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[Working in a high-end fashion store]’s not all been bad. You get some good mates, the retail causalities – people who only care about going out every night and free clothes. Contemporary hedonists, degenerate behaviour rises out of fashion retail like a phoenix.

citoyen · « **Reply #1031 on:** 20 May, 2021, 09:32:46 am »

That reminds me - one of my colleagues referred in an email yesterday to "a rise in causal sex post lockdown".

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1032 on:** 20 May, 2021, 10:02:36 am »

Your work emails are a lot more interesting than mine!

citoyen · « **Reply #1033 on:** 20 May, 2021, 10:15:16 am »

It was related to a marketing campaign for a high-street health & beauty retailer, nothing more interesting than that, I'm afraid.

T42 · « **Reply #1034 on:** 20 May, 2021, 10:54:53 am »

Wondering what a "causal sex post" might be...

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1035 on:** 20 May, 2021, 11:50:03 am »

Quote from: T42 on 20 May, 2021, 10:54:53 am

Wondering what a "causal sex post" might be...

Like a May Pole but more modern.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1036 on:** 20 May, 2021, 11:52:10 am »

Quote from: T42 on 20 May, 2021, 10:54:53 am

Wondering what a "causal sex post" might be...

And how and why do you lock one down?

Feanor · « **Reply #1037 on:** 20 May, 2021, 03:05:22 pm »

Quote from: PhilO on 07 May, 2021, 10:22:04 am

Quote from: citoyen on 29 April, 2021, 06:28:42 pm
Or Kamara, perhaps?

Or Carnera?

Carnera was the name of a mighty Clydesdale horse that pulled Barr's delivery carts around Falkirk in the 1930s.
He was locally acclaimed as the 'Biggest working horse in the world'.
At some 20 hands high, he was named after the Italian boxer, Primo Carnera.

He gets a mention in Jim Carruth's poem, a homage to the heavy horses that powered transport and agriculture in pre-industrial Scotland.

Andy Scott's Kelpies sculptures at Falkirk are inspired by this poem; they are the 'Mighty Twins of Carnera'; sited as they are in 'this kingdom between canal and firth', one bowing it's head to the water, the other stretching it's neck to face the sun.

hellymedic · « **Reply #1038 on:** 04 June, 2021, 09:25:21 pm »

Elsewhere somebody posted about a venue popular with 'au peres' and I was left wondering about extra-curricular activities...

Feanor · « **Reply #1039 on:** 06 June, 2021, 04:57:19 pm »

Lanlord by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

Presumably the supply to the Network Room, where the switches and routers live?

ravenbait · « **Reply #1040 on:** 08 June, 2021, 10:36:48 am »

I am becoming irrationally irritated by homophonic malapropism.

It's not like you have to buy a dictionary these days. There are plenty online.

Sam
_{I was looking for ocean-friendly, wetsuit-friendly, once-a-day sunscreen.}

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1041 on:** 08 June, 2021, 10:54:55 am »

It could be a pun. Haul as in acquisitions? A tendency to make puns was thought in the early 19th century to be a symptom of insanity...

Peter · « **Reply #1042 on:** 08 June, 2021, 10:58:37 am »

They possibly meant Hall of Shame (add to death list).

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1043 on:** 08 June, 2021, 10:59:27 am »

I had a choice petite rantette all primed and ready to fire until you stepped in with your oh-so-sensible explanation, Cudzo.

Damn you, ~~Kropotkin~~ Cudzoziemiec! Damn you TO HELL!!1!

ravenbait · « **Reply #1044 on:** 08 June, 2021, 11:09:45 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 08 June, 2021, 10:54:55 am

It could be a pun. Haul as in acquisitions? A tendency to make puns was thought in the early 19th century to be a symptom of insanity...

You are being optimistic. It's just voting for a favourite beauty product.

Sam

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1045 on:** 08 June, 2021, 11:25:46 am »

I try to be an optimist. It makes me less pessimistic about being damned by Mr Larrington.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1046 on:** 13 June, 2021, 12:58:57 pm »

My spelling checker did not know the word "titration". It wanted to split it in two.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1047 on:** 13 June, 2021, 07:50:51 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 13 June, 2021, 12:58:57 pm

My spelling checker did not know the word "titration". It wanted to split it in two.

Could such splitting be cleavage?

hatler · « **Reply #1048 on:** 13 June, 2021, 07:51:23 pm »

Very droll.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1049 on:** 13 June, 2021, 08:00:21 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 13 June, 2021, 07:50:51 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 13 June, 2021, 12:58:57 pm
My spelling checker did not know the word "titration". It wanted to split it in two.
Could such splitting be cleavage?

It boobed.