Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe  (Read 169974 times)

Zipperhead

  • The cyclist formerly known as Big Helga
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #650 on: 06 August, 2017, 09:46:57 pm »
Won't somebody think of the hamsters!


Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #652 on: 22 August, 2017, 06:32:25 pm »
In a CV, fast paste environment.

In the freshly cut vinyl on the door of a newly rebranded gym, Lifetyle.

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #654 on: 22 August, 2017, 07:09:04 pm »
In a CV, fast paste environment.

In the freshly cut vinyl on the door of a newly rebranded gym, Lifetyle.
That made oi larf  ;D
Can you spread it about?

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #655 on: 23 August, 2017, 12:09:55 pm »
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #656 on: 23 August, 2017, 12:44:20 pm »
^^^ <blert>. Got tea on my T-shit now.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #657 on: 31 August, 2017, 02:54:22 pm »
Quote
on mass

 ::-)
in a similar vein
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just encase you haven't seen

Mr Larrington

  • A bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
  • Custard Wallah
    • Mr Larrington's Automatic Diary
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #658 on: 03 September, 2017, 05:12:54 am »
Saw a billboard for a business in deepest South Dakota this morning:

Quote from: Dick
Dick's Body Shop

But Dick offers a
Quote from: Dick
24-hr Toe Service

I'm no longer sure whether Dick is a panel-beater or a chiropodist ;D
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ElyDave

  • Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society member 263583
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #659 on: 05 September, 2017, 07:00:51 am »
BBC look easy, person caption on interview had them described as working for " cambrdidge IVF"

It's not the typo, it's the lack of proof read at the beeb of all places. :o
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #660 on: 05 September, 2017, 08:03:14 am »
BBC look easy, person caption on interview had them described as working for " cambrdidge IVF"

It's not the typo, it's the lack of proof read at the beeb of all places. :o

Y'what? ???
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

ElyDave

  • Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society member 263583
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #661 on: 05 September, 2017, 08:07:32 am »
BBC look easy, person caption on interview had them described as working for " cambrdidge IVF"

It's not the typo, it's the lack of proof read at the beeb of all places. :o

Y'what? ???

FFS auto correct BBC Look EAST, our local news.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #662 on: 05 September, 2017, 10:04:10 am »
Ah.  Ta.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #663 on: 07 September, 2017, 10:35:58 pm »
"A salary package will be offered commiserate with experience" - an actual job advert seen today.

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #664 on: 07 September, 2017, 11:13:44 pm »
"A salary package will be offered commiserate with experience" - an actual job advert seen today.
"We're really sorry, we can't pay very much."
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #665 on: 08 September, 2017, 12:31:11 am »
"A salary package will be offered commiserate with experience" - an actual job advert seen today.

<pedant>
That's more a malapropism than a misspelling. Do we need a malapropism thread or should we merge them all into a pedants' corner?

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #666 on: 15 September, 2017, 08:47:52 am »
From my Freecycle "wanted" mail

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Books  - Any kind of Books you don't need anymore will be grate to collect. Thanks.

do we surmise this individual is intending to sell the volumes, or just needs more practice?

Pingu

  • Put away those fiery biscuits!
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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #667 on: 15 September, 2017, 09:01:10 am »
Obligated.

It's the nails on the blackboard of the English language.


hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #669 on: 19 September, 2017, 04:28:01 pm »
I was disappointed to see 'bravley' and 'adorded' in consecutive death announcements for the same person.

Can't work out if this family has collective spelling problems or whether the newspaper is at fault.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #670 on: 20 September, 2017, 01:09:55 am »
Obligated.

It's the nails on the blackboard of the English language.


As a self-confessed pedant, I feel, well, obligated to ask what on earth is wrong with the word.

nicknack

  • Hornblower
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #671 on: 20 September, 2017, 12:55:23 pm »
It has an 'a' and a 't' too many.
I know it's a real word but it's horrible and rather pointless.
There's no vibrations, but wait.

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #672 on: 20 September, 2017, 02:32:36 pm »
Interestingly (or not), Ngrams show that "obligate" occurs only half as much as "oblige" in US English, and about a third as much in British English. In English fiction (US & UK combined, I suppose) it occurs hardly at all. I'd guess that writers of English literature don't like it either. I'd also guess that when it does occur it's English authors satirizing Americans.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #673 on: 20 September, 2017, 02:51:48 pm »
Obligated and obliged don't have entirely the same meaning though. Here's a quote from a certain forumite  :D using 'obliged' in a way which, IMO, could not be expressed with obligated.
Last Sunday, a bloke in a Beamer started encroaching on my right of way and looked decidedly pissed off when I continued and obliged him to stop. He then had to drive round three sides of a rough rectangle and round a roundabout to get where he was going, whereas the cycle path I was on cut straight across.  It was delightful to meet him again at the far side and get onto the cyclist-priority crossing just before he reached it. :demon: :D
To my mind, where obliged has the sense of 'physically forced', as there, it can't be replaced with obligated. Obligated expresses a sense of obliged which is more like 'bureaucratically compelled'. Whether it's worth having a slightly ugly word to express that particular sense of 'obliged', I'm not sure, but it is distinct.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #674 on: 22 September, 2017, 05:21:25 pm »
To my mind, where obliged has the sense of 'physically forced', as there, it can't be replaced with obligated. Obligated expresses a sense of obliged which is more like 'bureaucratically compelled'. Whether it's worth having a slightly ugly word to express that particular sense of 'obliged', I'm not sure, but it is distinct.

For me, obligated means something like "compelled by politeness/courtesy", is this right?

On our last trip to Hungary, where keeping your headlights on all the time is compulsory, we were welcomed at the border by a sign that said "Obligatory headlights on"  :facepalm: