Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe (Read 174638 times)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1200 on:** 28 October, 2023, 06:09:15 pm »

Distilling various of my blog posts into an article for the BHPC mag. The number of typos is cringe-provoking

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #1201 on:** 29 October, 2023, 11:41:30 am »

Just went to Google the number 45 bus timetable, and the first result was this: https://www.lothianbuses.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/45_210912.pdf

Sadly, I'm not travelling on a pubic holiday.

hellymedic · « **Reply #1202 on:** 29 October, 2023, 07:18:17 pm »

The hostelry known as Brendan the Navigator has posted its Festive Menu on Facebook.
Menu starts with 'Appertisers'...

lissotriton · « **Reply #1203 on:** 31 October, 2023, 11:47:41 pm »

Quote from: phantasmagoriana on 29 October, 2023, 11:41:30 am

Just went to Google the number 45 bus timetable, and the first result was this: https://www.lothianbuses.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/45_210912.pdf

Sadly, I'm not travelling on a pubic holiday.

But it doesn't go to the pubic triangle. You need the number 35 for that.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1204 on:** 01 November, 2023, 12:03:59 am »

Sadly, I've had a pubic holiday for quite a long time.

Kim · « **Reply #1205 on:** 06 November, 2023, 01:32:05 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 06 November, 2023, 01:15:37 pm

your're

More of a typo, really, but not a good one. Though as spelling mistakes go I admired the bet-hedging.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #1206 on:** 07 November, 2023, 07:03:58 pm »

On that topic...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1207 on:** 15 November, 2023, 11:46:22 pm »

Spotted an nosh house on the Lea Bridge Road today bragging about its “Mezzanine Dinning Room”. Presumably for noisy eaters.

Jasmine · « **Reply #1208 on:** 17 November, 2023, 03:06:32 pm »

Marshall's

I'm active in both running and cycling events, and there are frequent calls on social media for people to marshal at events. Unfortunately, the auto-carrot does seem to prefer Marshall (always capital M, so the name Marshall), so it quite often needs re-correcting, even if you've typed it in correctly. The combination of the spelling and the errant apostrophe (because adding the s makes auto-carrot think it is now something belonging to Marshall) makes me shudder to my bones.

hellymedic · « **Reply #1209 on:** 18 November, 2023, 01:05:25 am »

Subject of email I received from change.org

'Defribulators and VAT'

Defibrillators is correctly spelt several times in the body of the email.

Giraffe · « **Reply #1210 on:** 18 November, 2023, 05:30:57 pm »

Defribulators are used to stop fribbing.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fribbing

Slave To The Viking · « **Reply #1211 on:** 23 November, 2023, 12:11:02 am »

The Lost & Found Club in Leeds apparently has a "well leaden bar".

T42 · « **Reply #1212 on:** 23 November, 2023, 09:09:17 am »

Quote from: Slave To The Viking on 23 November, 2023, 12:11:02 am

The Lost & Found Club in Leeds apparently has a "well leaden bar".

Should be "leaden bra"? How're the millisieverts up that way?

Slave To The Viking · « **Reply #1213 on:** 23 November, 2023, 11:39:07 am »

Quote from: T42 on 23 November, 2023, 09:09:17 am

Quote from: Slave To The Viking on 23 November, 2023, 12:11:02 am
The Lost & Found Club in Leeds apparently has a "well leaden bar".

Should be "leaden bra"? How're the millisieverts up that way?

There's a pretty high probability of absorbing a lethal dose.

bhoot · « **Reply #1214 on:** 26 November, 2023, 05:34:16 pm »

This could equally go in bad science - from a daily Rail Industry digest:
"Rail Safe Friendly seeks to educate children and young people on the many dangers that are present on the railway. For example, nearly half of the UK rail network is electrified and more than 30 per cent uses a third rail to power the train. The third rail has 750 vaults running through it, which is enough to kill or seriously injure someone if they stepped on it. Overhead cables that power trains carry 25,000 vaults, more than 100 times the power of electricity in the average home. Electricity from overhead lines can also jump or arc through the air, meaning someone does not have to be touching the line to be electrocuted and killed."

Peter · « **Reply #1215 on:** 26 November, 2023, 05:42:49 pm »

Brilliant! As someone who tends a churchyard, which probably has 750 volts in it, i am anxious that people walking across it, and children playing in/vandalising it, could fall into one of several holes revealed by shifting bones and end up in a volt themselves. Watt a disaster that would be. No electricity would be involved but we are currently thinking of the best way to deal with the possibility.

Giraffe · « **Reply #1216 on:** 26 November, 2023, 06:10:11 pm »

Are the vaults polerised?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1217 on:** 26 November, 2023, 07:32:04 pm »

Resistance is futile.

Peter · « **Reply #1218 on:** 26 November, 2023, 07:49:40 pm »

Ohm I God!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1219 on:** 26 November, 2023, 08:42:09 pm »

I'm afraid my capacitance for these puns is currently limited.

Pingu · « **Reply #1220 on:** 26 November, 2023, 09:38:51 pm »

Joule just have to put up with them

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1221 on:** 26 November, 2023, 10:10:13 pm »

Wait, WATT?!?!

Peter · « **Reply #1222 on:** 26 November, 2023, 11:58:19 pm »

Stop it, all of you! The day is too faradvanced.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1223 on:** 27 November, 2023, 08:05:51 am »

Cheer up, lad. It’s almost Christmas! Mho! Mho! Mho!

hellymedic · « **Reply #1224 on:** 27 November, 2023, 03:38:55 pm »

Surely, that's enough Faraday…