Okay, first off, I will state that I am an excellent speller. Not boasting, I just am. I was the spelling champ of my class twice in Junior High. I'm just good at it. Why? Because I read so much. Oh, and that Catholic school thing too.

But I will freely admit there are some words that still give me the occasional trip-up; the word "occasional" itself being an excellent example (I always wanna write "occaisional"). I also have problems with the word "rhythm".

So I'm not perfect speller. Nobody is. But I cringe at the horrendous spelling that I've seen on various message boards & chat rooms around the internet. I mean, there are common misspellings and such ("teh" instead of "the"; "wierd" instead of "weird"), but I attribute such goof-ups to simple transposings of the letters as you type. I do it too. But there are typos, and then there is total, complete illiteracy. Stuff that makes you say "What the hell...?" This is what I'm talking about. I'm not talking simple transposed letters, I'm talking complete bungling of word spellings. You all know what I mean.

So even though I wince at some horribly misspelled words I find on board postings, I can't help but laugh hysterically at some of the clunkers out there. And so, I'd like to share with you some of the more memorable flubs I've come across. My apologies if I've included any of your own mistakes, dear bloggers, but what can I say? I have a black belt in schadenfreude.

But be honest folks. How many of you have cracked up over reading a word that was atrociously spelled??? See? We've all been there. So without further ado...

(I put the misspell in bold, the intended spelling following it, and some occasional commentary of my own)


aacked attacked--I guess the "t" key didn't work

actcually actually

ADEQUITE adequate--thanks, Lindsay Lohan!

aggres agrees

ambarassing embarassing

ananymous anonymous

anywaise anyways

appauling appalling

apprectices apprentices



becaase because

beinning beginning

benifit benefit

boarderline borderline

butchured butchered



[For some reason words starting with "C" took a real beating]

cammel camel

cannn canon

cantaina cantina

chewy Chewie--I'm sorry, but there's NO excuse for this!

chocked choked

clearified clarified

collor collar

comming coming

compair compare

congradgeulate congratulate

congradulations congratulations

concider consider

condolances condolences

conscious conscience--yes, that was the context they used

consession concession

conttest contest

coolistion coalition

co-singed co-signed

couch coach--again, intended context

critisism criticism

curiose curious



Defantly definitely

definatly definitely

Degobah Dagobah--NO excuse for this on a SW board!

develope develop

dicayed decayed

digussion discussion

discrestion discretion

Dispicable despicable

disserving deserving



EDITED for speeling oh. my. god.

eighter either

encluding including

equasions equations

evar ever

excersice exercise

excersize exercise

execusing excusing

exisiting existing

exspect expect

experiance experience

experimenet experiment

experamints experiments



faught fought

femist feminist

fihting fighting

firing swad firing squad

fortunitely fortunately



gripping griping--context again


halucanation hallucination

halusonation hallucination

heirchal hierarchical

holestic holistic

hypocracy hypocrisy



I just prey I just pray...--context again

incinedary incendiary

inforced enforced



junevinille juvenile



kep keep--are you kidding me?



loose lose--context again

lip sink lip sync


malee melee

mezmorized mesmerized

minipulated manipulated

misconshrews misconstrues--this one's my favorite



nessesary necessary



of coarse of course--context again

opionion opinion

oppinion opinion--Thanks again Lindsay Lohan!

orientated oriented

over-raited overrated



partition petition--context again

plented plenty

presense presence

Pretened pretend

probally probably



[couldn't find anything for "Q"]



raynhkor rancor--come on, you kidding me?

reciently recently

recomssioning recomissioning

recons reckons--context again

reffering refering

reguards regards

release realize--intended context again

retacon retcon--this one couldn't even get fanboy words right!

revent revenge--again, NO EXCUSE

robonts robots

Rolf! Pathetic attempt at ROFL. "I'm Rolfing over here!!"



sabor-rattling saber rattling

sacrafice sacrifice

sacralage sacrilege

sence sense

sensable sensible

Sentances sentences

serriosly seriously

shose chose

shure sure

strenthens strengthens



termoil turmoil

there their; they're--this was posted by the same guy!

thoring throwing

tradional traditional

Tragety tragedy



[didn't find anything for "u" or "v"]



waste waist--context again

wath watch

Watoo Watto--again, no excuse for this!

wering wearing

welel adviced well advised--this could very well be the crown jewel

writting writing

woundering wondering


[didn't find anything for "X"]


yact [yacht]


[didn't find anything for "z"]


In closing, I'll just say this: for those of you who think that proper spelling, grammar, and sentence structure don't matter anymore in the 21st Century, I'll just ask you to click this link here , which demonstrates what folks in the Real World might think of you if you don't have a proper education.


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