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Please post your favorite humorous mispellings of words in this thread
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Violentvixen
(She/Her)
My favourite was from a guy interviewing at my old company. He was presenting data from his graduate work, and the y-axis was supposed to be "counts".
He forgot the "o". On every single one of his slides so it must have been a mislabel on his data workup template. This was probably the most-used experiment in his presentation so we saw it a lot!
I didn't participate in the rest of his interview but apparently the other sessions didn't go well and he was an asshole to the administrative staff so I don't feel bad making fun of him. Also dude, review your data better yeesh.
He forgot the "o". On every single one of his slides so it must have been a mislabel on his data workup template. This was probably the most-used experiment in his presentation so we saw it a lot!
I didn't participate in the rest of his interview but apparently the other sessions didn't go well and he was an asshole to the administrative staff so I don't feel bad making fun of him. Also dude, review your data better yeesh.
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
ETA: On a related note, can anyone tell me whether the word “shibe” from the doge memes was meant to be pronounced “sheeb” or “she-bay”?
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Going by the original word, I'd say the latter.
I like “skee-sirs” for scissors, “morpin’” for muffin and “skwerpal” for Squirrel.
I also add an umlaut to “fork”, but that’s harder to reproduce on a phones keyboard
I also add an umlaut to “fork”, but that’s harder to reproduce on a phones keyboard
muteKi
Geno Cidecity
Any time I talk with the cats I unnecessarily pluralize words that are already plural so I talk like a cat-hoarding goblin or something
"oh hello there my kittenses. is it times for your breakfastses?" and of course the cats are like "yes, and then it will be time for second breakfast"
"oh hello there my kittenses. is it times for your breakfastses?" and of course the cats are like "yes, and then it will be time for second breakfast"
The holy quadrinity:
Also back when people used to make online quizzes you'd have those big sites where people would post their own ones, usually Harry Potter sorting hat type stuff. The one that has always stuck with me, and I never even clicked on it, was "R U ON DURGS?"
Also back when people used to make online quizzes you'd have those big sites where people would post their own ones, usually Harry Potter sorting hat type stuff. The one that has always stuck with me, and I never even clicked on it, was "R U ON DURGS?"
nosimpleway
(he/him)
I've seen "I'm a sub looking to serve and be collard" and it got an actual lol out of me
When I was a little kid I was fond of eating psghetti. Actually I think my little brother started that one. (And later we extended it to psagna, though I think that one was semi intentionally toungue in cheek.)
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
I am told that, even though these two things share a spelling, they are pronounced differently.
It's American versus British pronunciation. As someone who pronounces the plant the British way I have endured to end of mockery.
nosimpleway
(he/him)
Wotan's Leydale
I have graded more than one undergraduate paper in which the student spelled “ludicrous” as “ludacris.”
This contains quite a few of my favorites:
