bad spelling competition

[Thermo]

I spotted this advert in a copy of the friday ad. Took me a little while to work it out.

SMALL QUANTITY OMT/ Agrugat forpatio base foundation

anybody got any other examples they can add from real life? (this will probably set Noseall off!)

 

[noseall]

"correct annunciation, pronunciation and spelling are what separates humans from chavs"

 

[tim west]

"Sing if you're happy being a chav"

 

[wotan]

Not bad spelling......but sign outside a local shop.........
'Open 7 Day's a week including Sunday'

Wotan

 

[Space cat]

Here in the NHS (or our bit of it anyway) we have our own electronic noticeboard. Bad spelling is common but the worst culprit by far is "plummer".

I got so sick of seeing this that I risked being kicked off by replying to the notice "Excellent plummer available (blah! blah!)" with this one:

"Does he grow his own plums?"

PS: THe DIYnot spell checker accepted "plummer". I'll have to look it up now.

 

[Shytalkz]

Not bad spelling......but sign outside a local shop.........
'Open 7 Day's a week including Sunday'

Wotan

Is that a 2-in-1 then Wotan? Nonsensical as well as an aberrant apostrophe?!

 

[Blasphemous]

Spelling my arse!...

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig! and yuo awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

 

[Thermo]

what?

 

[disinfo]

anybody got any other examples they can add from real life? (this will probably set Noseall off!)

to many to list you looser

 

[Space cat]

Spelling mistakes are on the increase. I think its because we are all ways to reddy to believe hour spill chockers.

PS: There's a bonus mark for spotting the missing apostrophe.

PPS: I've just remembered this one. I saw a big poster on a factory wall nearly twenty years ago. It said:

LET'S ALL TRY TO GET TO WORK ON TIME EVERYDAY

 

[Stivino]

to many to list you looser

Should that not be LOSER?

 

[Trazor]

Should that not be LOSER?

Ermmmm.......Please note the title of this topic......

 

[Thermo]

anybody got any other examples they can add from real life? (this will probably set Noseall off!)

to many to list you looser

fanks

 

[tawelfryn]

One thing that gets me is on forums, or ebay etc. The number of people who put "off" instead of "of", and "brought" instead of "bought".
eg.
I brought it,

instead of,

I bought it.

It was one off many,

instead of,

It was one of many.

 

[Blasphemous]

One thing that gets me is the amount of people who are so interested in what other people are doing/not doing. Language is not perfect. It evolves. The main thing is to make yourself understood. After that, everything is a bonus.