Spelling that makes you cringe

[rafletcher]

Looks like a text-to-speech fubar.

[Kim]

I've seen it before.  I think it's a genuine eggcorn, rather than a spelling error.

*tapity-tap*

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2550

[fimm]

I've seen it before.  I think it's a genuine eggcorn, rather than a spelling error.

*tapity-tap*

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2550

I read more of the blog, and the author uses it more than once.

[hellymedic]

I reposted Brian Bilston’s poem from this time last year on Facebook today.
A commenter borrowed the concept...

[Jasmine]

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?

My employer turns off the automatic spell checker (the one that does the red underlines as you write) in our corporate template documents, so people have to remember to actually run the full check at the end. It means loads of documents go out with appalling spelling and grammatical errors ("payed" FFS).

[fimm]

Also, in case I'm not the only person who had never come across "eggcorn" before:

An eggcorn is the alteration of a phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn.

Approximately the opposite of the person who knows what a word means but cannot pronounce it correctly, having only ever seen it written down. There's probably a word for that, too.

[Cudzoziemiec]

A respite involves a sort of rest, but only in bite-sized chunks, so it's entirely logical, even if wrong, as logical things often are.