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Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: CliffordK on 14/05/2011 01:02:30
Actually, I'm pretty bad with spelling.  Thank god there are spell checkers, but I'm sure I'll be putting my "fut" in my mouth.

Let me start this off with a few.

Right now on Craigslist you can buy a welder with two "settling" tanks (and 2 oxygen tanks too).

And one for Geezer...  Not really a spelling error, but I had a discussion once with a neighbor about loosing memory due to "Old Timer's Disease".
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: graham.d on 14/05/2011 09:23:39
Yes, it's particularly annoying to see "losing" spelt as "loosing" too  [:)]
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: mattyh on 14/05/2011 21:18:48
As a retired World of Warcraft player, Rouge instead of Rogue annoyed me just a little bit.

What really narks me is text speak, I don't mind the odd abbreviation such as 'Lol' but the likes of 'Rolf' or even worse 'Rolfcopter', 'Wtf' is that?

At least with spelling mistakes the writer has kind of made an effort. Unless were talking about super-sized walls of text with no punctuation, but then that's a different story.

 
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: Bored chemist on 15/05/2011 18:36:38
"Thank god there are spell checkers"
Just for the record, you should spell God with a capital G.
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: CliffordK on 15/05/2011 19:51:00
"Thank god there are spell checkers"
Just for the record, you should spell God with a capital G.
Yeah,
I noticed that yesterday.  :P
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: JimBob on 16/05/2011 03:45:53
watts wrong? mite get upset over the big thinks, like relatives and other of Ienstines ideas
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: JP on 16/05/2011 04:02:38
'Rolfcopter', 'Wtf' is that?
You haven't been for a ride in the Rofl Copter yet?
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Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: Airthumbs on 16/05/2011 14:27:33
luk ere m8, @ least u can read wot im ritin.  The spelchek on dis ting aint even in english!
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: suvra.saha79 on 24/05/2011 18:15:42
hahahaha...Right you are. Spelling mistake is really too much annoying for sometime. Anyways, "Old Timer's Disease" is a serious & problematic diseases for anyone at the time of old age. I think if we start discussing with the matter, we can run for a probable solution..

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Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: traveler on 08/06/2011 03:18:30
You can also have fun with spelling mistakes.
If your Boss askes you if you will finish the report, you can happily reply with "I defiantly will"
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: CliffordK on 08/06/2011 03:28:19
A while I was corresponding with a Russian woman. 

One of the letters she closed with "WORM KISSES"

I thought it was the cutest thing!!!!!!
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: Don_1 on 14/06/2011 16:54:25
I do whish pepple wood learnt who to speel proper like. Iss no a problemo four kme ov coarse. cos im reelie gaud at it as yew kan teel frum wot i ave ritted ear.

Tak a lok at ebay, iss amaazin who meny pepple hoo poot a kamara 'lense' up fore sail. were da vay git thet xtra 'e' frome on ve ende! an im knot torkin abaht foreners, im torkin inglisch pepple.

i blaim ve bankers(korect speelin) an polytishuns.
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: Geezer on 14/06/2011 19:01:46

i blaim ve bankers(korect speelin)


Do you know what the collective noun for bankers is?
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: peppercorn on 14/06/2011 21:06:53
Is it 'A crook'?
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: Geezer on 14/06/2011 22:13:33
Is it 'A crook'?

That would work. However, as I learned the other evening while watching "New Tricks", apparently, it's a "wunch".
Title: Spelling errors that make you want to scream!!!
Post by: Don_1 on 15/06/2011 10:18:37
Is it 'A crook'?

That would work. However, as I learned the other evening while watching "New Tricks", apparently, it's a "wunch".

A "wunch of bankers" eh!

Methinks that just might be a Spoonerism.