Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe (Read 172655 times)

meddyg · « **Reply #1225 on:** 27 November, 2023, 04:41:04 pm »

Yeah, enough of your impedance !

Slave To The Viking · « **Reply #1226 on:** 27 November, 2023, 06:33:52 pm »

Some of these comments are getting quite heated. Maybe someone can coulomb down?

hellymedic · « **Reply #1227 on:** 13 January, 2024, 02:27:05 pm »

Another Twitter/X gem…

Foot in mouth disease...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1228 on:** 15 January, 2024, 05:04:41 pm »

Hate U In Drag has written about a "poststratification model", which is fine, but I can't help feeling that word is crying out for a hyphen.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/15/yougov-poll-telegraph-tories-disaster-analysis

hubner · « **Reply #1229 on:** 04 February, 2024, 08:18:13 am »

Paycheck, license (noun), mold, all seem to be more common now at least online.

eckagain · « **Reply #1230 on:** 04 February, 2024, 08:27:33 am »

Draw.
You don't keep your socks and knickers in a draw.
Far less in a chester draws.

T42 · « **Reply #1231 on:** 04 February, 2024, 02:00:52 pm »

Quote from: hubner on 04 February, 2024, 08:18:13 am

Paycheck, license (noun), mold, all seem to be more common now at least online.

Yeah. Last time MrsT was on an OU summer school in the UK, about 10 years ago, she came home and declared "they're all Americans".

Tim Hall · « **Reply #1232 on:** 08 February, 2024, 09:42:00 pm »

Went through some roadworks today on the A30 in Darkest Cornwall. Many cones, lots of new dual carriageway being built. Not many people visible doing stuff. To ensure passing motorists were not unduly aggrieved by the apparent lack of work going on there were signs:

"We're currently working out of site."

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1233 on:** 09 February, 2024, 09:51:36 am »

Working off sight – everything is done visually.

fimm · « **Reply #1234 on:** 12 February, 2024, 04:08:00 pm »

I'm calling this a spelling mistake rather than a maths one because it is really a typo (but not a good one) or a proof-reading error.

I was looking at ladders on the B&Q website. One that I was interested in comes in two lengths: 2.5m and 0.39m...

hellymedic · « **Reply #1235 on:** 12 February, 2024, 04:12:18 pm »

Reminds me of 75l toothpaste tubes...

hellymedic · « **Reply #1236 on:** 17 February, 2024, 07:12:24 pm »

Facebook seems to be feeding me American cookery videos.
I don’t like the way they pronounce ‘oregano’ oRAYguno and basil BAYzil at all!

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #1237 on:** 17 February, 2024, 07:18:52 pm »

Not to mention erbs.

ian · « **Reply #1238 on:** 17 February, 2024, 07:59:55 pm »

Wait till you learn how they pronounce coriander.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1239 on:** 18 February, 2024, 12:35:39 am »

Some camp as a row of tents USAnian muso on t'wireless the other day who pronounced “vitality” as “vee-tality”.

WTFF

T42 · « **Reply #1240 on:** 18 February, 2024, 11:07:17 am »

Quote from: Auntie Helen on 17 February, 2024, 07:18:52 pm

Not to mention erbs.

That's the way my mum pronounced it. My sister once corrected her and got a hell of a rocket from my dad.

Re orRAYgano, it's actually closer to the original than the English version.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1241 on:** 18 February, 2024, 07:11:39 pm »

You've got to keep on top of these things, it's no good resting on your laurels.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #1242 on:** 18 February, 2024, 07:55:04 pm »

Sage advice

jsabine · « **Reply #1243 on:** 18 February, 2024, 10:54:28 pm »

About thyme for Basil to pop up here, no?

T42 · « **Reply #1244 on:** 19 February, 2024, 07:59:36 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 18 February, 2024, 07:11:39 pm

You've got to keep on top of these things, it's no good resting on your laurels.

Nor yet bay up the wrong tree.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1245 on:** 08 March, 2024, 11:52:13 pm »

C4's caption writer, who thinks the Alpine F1 team employs enginners, can book his summer holibobs in Reëducation Camp 463. No charge.

This may, however, explain Alpine's woeful lack of performance in the opening overs of the 2024 season.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1246 on:** 05 April, 2024, 07:48:55 pm »

contractural
espefically
beaurocratic ostacles
signerd
charing
reciving
wighing
comit
wehere
testacles
munipal
responaible
recuited

All in one document. A spelling checker is not a magic instrument but it would have caught all of those in a minute. Why the fuck didn't you use one?

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #1247 on:** 05 April, 2024, 10:49:06 pm »

Prompted by the Hells Bells thread, I found that according to the Brompton website the spurcycle bell

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fits any handlebar and has multiple mountain positions

fimm · « **Reply #1248 on:** 10 April, 2024, 02:14:27 pm »

Someone blogging about a cycle tour where they planned to mostly camp but

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when required enjoy some well-deserved rest bite in the occasion Airbnb

T42 · « **Reply #1249 on:** 10 April, 2024, 02:37:08 pm »

Quote from: fimm on 10 April, 2024, 02:14:27 pm

Someone blogging about a cycle tour where they planned to mostly camp but
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when required enjoy some well-deserved rest bite in the occasion Airbnb

Autocarrot illiteracy? I made a comment to MrsT this morning about the peerless white dressing-gown the hospital provided and my phone changed it to dressing-down. I guess it's business-oriented.