Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe  (Read 169985 times)

citoyen

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #625 on: 11 April, 2017, 10:32:47 am »
Once when I was very small, we were supposed to be visiting my aunt for the weekend but she put us off because she had an ear infection. I assumed this must be a case of that "dire ear" that I'd heard grown-ups talking about. But of course I asked the teacher for the correct spelling when I wrote up the story for "What I did at the weekend" at school the following Monday...
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

hellymedic

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #626 on: 11 April, 2017, 02:17:23 pm »
In Ye Shedde the bowel condition was known as 'dire rear'...

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #627 on: 11 April, 2017, 02:19:19 pm »
In Ye Shedde the bowel condition was known as 'dire rear'...

Bristolian is the 'dire ill'.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #628 on: 11 April, 2017, 02:22:19 pm »
A friend of Mrs. Wow's, who is a nurse, has a little mnemonic he finds useful.

Doesn't
It
Always
Run
Really
Horribly
Over
Each
Ankle
?

 :D

Edit: that's pretty much a haiku!  O:-)

But still shit poetry.   ;)

T42

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #629 on: 11 April, 2017, 02:30:43 pm »
Chap I knew long ago had a great biblical-type spiel about the Three Daughters of Rhea, Diah, Pyah and Gonah.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

citoyen

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #630 on: 11 April, 2017, 04:06:44 pm »
But still shit poetry.   ;)

Would sir like his coat?
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Kim

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #631 on: 11 April, 2017, 06:55:28 pm »
In Ye Shedde the bowel condition was known as 'dire rear'...

This spelling is canonical IMHO.

fuaran

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #632 on: 17 April, 2017, 12:26:49 am »
From an Ebay listing: options for "Very Taught" or "Semi Taught" springs.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #633 on: 17 April, 2017, 09:46:42 am »
Their curriculum was obviously not stretching them enough.

Wowbagger

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #634 on: 18 April, 2017, 09:12:57 pm »


No. 6 - from the pitching instructions of a Tera Nova Laser Space 2.  :thumbsup:
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Pingu

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #635 on: 24 June, 2017, 07:56:14 pm »
Effected instead of affected, three times in a document  :facepalm:

hellymedic

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #636 on: 25 June, 2017, 01:29:18 pm »
Friday night's dinner receipt from Surgeons Lodge, Edinburgh:1

'Lion of Roast Lamb' - almost Biblical!

1) The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has this Ten Hill Place hotel adjacent to Surgeons' Hall on Nicolson Street. It's open to the public and Fellows of the College get a discount. This was the hotel restaurant, where we dined with a friend.


Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #637 on: 28 July, 2017, 09:35:01 pm »
http://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/pop-up-gazebo-318786

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Includes aluminium poles and folding steal frame structure, with polyester cover and carry case.


T42

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #638 on: 29 July, 2017, 09:03:39 am »
http://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/pop-up-gazebo-318786

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Includes aluminium poles and folding steal frame structure, with polyester cover and carry case.


So that you can fold your tent and silently steel away.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Ruthie

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #639 on: 30 July, 2017, 06:56:19 pm »
Coming over all intolerant by Ruth Irving, on Flickr
Oh, the irony.
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citoyen

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #640 on: 03 August, 2017, 11:30:44 am »
As I was riding past a local school this morning, I noticed that they give their 'facsmile' number on the board by the entrance.

Aside from the hubristic pomposity of spelling it out in full rather than using the popular abbreviation and then getting the spelling wrong, I wonder if any of the kids at the school even know what a fax is.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #641 on: 03 August, 2017, 11:55:42 am »
facsmile: 'polite' spelling of "fuck smile".
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #642 on: 03 August, 2017, 07:54:05 pm »
Boarder.

As in boarder force, boarder controls, the boarder between two countries.  :facepalm:
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hellymedic

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #643 on: 03 August, 2017, 08:09:25 pm »
'Damming' when 'damning' was the intention. From an MP no less.

Mr Larrington

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #644 on: 04 August, 2017, 11:45:39 am »
Send for the Damn Busters!
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hellymedic

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #645 on: 05 August, 2017, 03:15:12 pm »
MP was discussing Grenfell Tower related report. Damn busters would be worrying!

Pingu

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #646 on: 06 August, 2017, 08:20:11 pm »
Quote
on mass

 ::-)

Mrs Pingu

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #647 on: 06 August, 2017, 08:25:10 pm »
Seen on on a restaurant review on TripAdvisor: aperoteefs
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Torslanda

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #648 on: 06 August, 2017, 08:30:21 pm »
His and hers dentures?
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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #649 on: 06 August, 2017, 09:30:33 pm »
Dentures?