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hellymedic

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #750 on: 27 January, 2018, 09:49:18 pm »
Nicked from partner's Facebook page.
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Pingu

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #751 on: 27 January, 2018, 10:10:54 pm »
Do YOU fight with your partner all night long? This seller on eBay has the perfect product for you

Heh. I always laugh when I see someone has written 'duel carriageway'.

ElyDave

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #752 on: 01 February, 2018, 07:16:23 am »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-42782487

According to the last picture, the yolk is his favourite event.

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hellymedic

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #753 on: 04 February, 2018, 04:59:30 pm »
Estate agent ad on my Facebook feed describes house as 'blank canvass'.
I'm sure they didn't want local politics!

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #754 on: 12 February, 2018, 02:36:04 pm »
Since he's a sometime poster in this thread, I reckon citoyen is fair game for this one:

...None of the crew seems particularly phased when Weird Shit starts happening.*

 ;)

Kim

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #755 on: 12 February, 2018, 02:38:17 pm »
Since he's a sometime poster in this thread, I reckon citoyen is fair game for this one:

...None of the crew seems particularly phased when Weird Shit starts happening.*

 ;)

From the context of the post, I thought that was deliberate.  Maybe I've been watching too much Star Trek.

hellymedic

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #756 on: 11 May, 2018, 09:29:54 am »
From Auntie's feature about teachers of colour...
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With support from a senior colleague, she became head at Beckford - although her ascent attracted some harassment.

Seem not to know accent from ascent!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42649541

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #757 on: 11 May, 2018, 12:13:32 pm »
No, I think that they mean 'ascent'.  :-\

citoyen

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #758 on: 11 May, 2018, 03:32:02 pm »
Since he's a sometime poster in this thread, I reckon citoyen is fair game for this one:

...None of the crew seems particularly phased when Weird Shit starts happening.*

 ;)

Good grief.   :facepalm:

Sorry, only just spotted this, wasn't ignoring you!

I really wish it were deliberate as per Kim's suggestion, because that would almost count as a decent pun, but it was actually nothing more than pure brain-melt.
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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #759 on: 12 May, 2018, 08:22:03 pm »
Standards really are dropping at the BBC - from a report on the World's Fastest Shed:

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"It's not just the high-end engineering that makes breaking records on Pendine Sands difficult. As Pendine is a Ministry of Defence test fire site, you'll often end up encountering unexploded ordinance alongside giant washed-up jellyfish."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-44054814

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #760 on: 16 May, 2018, 04:35:22 am »
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"... unexploded ordinance ..."
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One can never be too cautious around  legislation which hasn't blown up yet

Andrij

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #761 on: 20 June, 2018, 07:36:06 am »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #762 on: 20 June, 2018, 08:36:49 am »
That's not so much spelling as grammar and using the wrong word...

Wowbagger

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #763 on: 24 June, 2018, 10:01:09 am »


Came through the door this morning...
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T42

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #764 on: 24 June, 2018, 10:33:00 am »
He left out the apostrophe in job's.
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hellymedic

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #765 on: 24 June, 2018, 12:33:59 pm »
That's not so much spelling as grammar and using the wrong word...

There's also the extraneous apostrophe in 'it's'...

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #766 on: 25 June, 2018, 11:30:37 am »
that was the grammar; using 'extinguished' instead of 'distinguished' was the wrong word.  (obvs)

hellymedic

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #767 on: 25 June, 2018, 01:58:06 pm »
If a handyman seeking local business is not a man of letters, even the pedant in me would cut him some slack.

Sub-literacy in the production of a pricy card is another matter.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #768 on: 17 July, 2018, 02:03:18 pm »
At least you read the card. Most end up in recycling without a glance.

Recently,I have noticed the phrase “ to rein in “ being written and published as “to  reign in”.
The phrase has it’s origin in horse riding ,as to pull the reins tight holds the horse’s head down and discourages it from galloping away. If you understand that, then the spelling is easy.

citoyen

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #769 on: 17 July, 2018, 07:02:21 pm »
Recently,I have noticed the phrase “ to rein in “ being written and published as “to  reign in”.

See also: free reign

I can understand this mistake - "free reign" makes a kind of sense. "Reign in" less so.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #770 on: 17 July, 2018, 10:35:09 pm »
Possibly that you're exercising power over someone/something?

T42

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #771 on: 18 July, 2018, 08:54:22 am »
Recently,I have noticed the phrase “ to rein in “ being written and published as “to  reign in”.

See also: free reign

I can understand this mistake - "free reign" makes a kind of sense. "Reign in" less so.

This is the way that meanings get muddled - it makes a kind of sense, just like diarrhoea spelt dire rear. Eventually the incorrect version will propagate so far that the OED will include it.
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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #772 on: 18 July, 2018, 12:32:43 pm »
If a handyman seeking local business is not a man of letters, even the pedant in me would cut him some slack.

Sub-literacy in the production of a pricy card is another matter.
Absolutely! I see no reason to think that Bill's little literary mistakes are representative of the quality of his work as a handyman, but when one's selling something as ultra-posh & charging accordingly, lousy English is strongly suggestive of an inability to deliver what is promised.
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Pingu

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #773 on: 18 July, 2018, 12:39:13 pm »
Recently,I have noticed the phrase “ to rein in “ being written and published as “to  reign in”.

See also: free reign

I can understand this mistake - "free reign" makes a kind of sense. "Reign in" less so.

The reign in Spain...

T42

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Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #774 on: 18 July, 2018, 12:52:32 pm »
Recently,I have noticed the phrase “ to rein in “ being written and published as “to  reign in”.

See also: free reign

I can understand this mistake - "free reign" makes a kind of sense. "Reign in" less so.

The reign in Speign...

FTFY
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