BS: Spelling exploits

Subject: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 10:53 AM

There was a time when being a poor speller was a "total disadvantage". While it still is a disadvantage, with the internet and Google, an incorrectly spelled word can open up a new world of information.It only takes a few seconds of inattention.

A recent example of mine was attempting to look up "unwanted Canadian election. Well I got it spelled wrong and came up with a site that brought me back to experiences my early teen years:Unwanted erection

Do you have any personal tales of misspelled words that led you to a good internet experience that comes to mind?

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 11:37 AM

Hahahhahaaa!

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 11:38 AM

unwanted Canadian election

Souns like a cockup to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 11:47 AM

"hard disk"

notice that 'c' is right near 'x' on the keyboard. I can spell...I just can't type.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 07:23 PM

It's so bloody cold in Canada that there can surely be no such thing as an unwanted erection. Always abide by Billy Connolly's three rules for the over-60s:

Never ignore any opportunity to have a pee

Never trust a fart

Never waste an erection.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: bobad
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 07:31 PM

Up with erections!

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 11:49 PM

Unless you are a dachshund climbing stairs!

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 03:21 AM

Kat, I wouldn't necessarily expect you to fully appreciate this, but it would be far worse for a dachshund climbing the stairs backwards...

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 10:22 AM

I onct spelt "dikshunairy" corekly and won a kupkake. That was in forth grad, I think. I alsew onct one the Publishers Cleerinhouse Sweepstakes butt that was bekuz my wife entered my name.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 10:38 AM

Maybe not, Steve, but I'll leave it to you or Les Barker to explain that one!**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 10:54 AM

Rapparee, thets probably how yoo got thet hyefalootin' job at that ther lyeberry!

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 12:20 AM

I was told by a schoolteacher friend of a nice Indian lady fellow schoolteacher sitting in front of her PC Moaning in a shocked manner "Oh!, Oh!"

The School was doing a segment on extra large Urban developments, and she was doing a Google search, and had mistyped "Megacities"...

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 12:22 AM

"hard disk"

Another time a lady ringing up the Supply Dept about her order was asked by the guy next to me did she really mean to order 100 floppy dicks....

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 04:18 AM

Before this thread goes too far off track, let me answer the original request in the title:

Spelling "exploits".....................okay, I can try........

E-X-P-L-O-I-T-S

Anyway, I think that is correct.........


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: MartinRyan
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 04:21 AM

Spelling exploits? Of course it does - its a mater off principal!

Reguards

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Musket
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 04:28 AM

In my work, I have to write "organism" on a fairly frequent basis.

I also have a mental block with the word and if I am not careful, I type it without the n and i.

as my spell checker doesn't mind the word, and neither does our publications peoples' presumably, there are two published reports available from a particular government body with this slip intact.

One is to say the least Freudian.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Mr Happy
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 07:14 AM

.......or if you're bored, it can be a case of N,U,E!

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 07:23 AM

An old lady at our Bingo last year announced proudly that her husband was fitting a new dildo rail in their hallway. There was an embarrassed silence ...
My friend Maureen always used to say 'semi-skilled milk' and 'sustifficate'. But strictly speaking these are malapropisms, not spelling exploits.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 08:34 AM

My old aunt came back from a trip to Paris telling us that she'd visited the Sacrer Sewer.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 01:50 PM

In praise of the ROMAINE (COS) LETTUCE, and thanks for bringing it to us, whether its to the Greeks, the Romans, the French, (the Romanians), or even the Roman Catholic Popes at Avignon.
ROMAINE (COS) LETTUCE

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 04:09 PM

I know someone who was trying to look up an item at Dick's Sporting Goods. Yup - dicks.com NOT their website, BTW. :-)

Having been a medical transcriptionist for the past 8 years, I often have to type the word "gland" for work. No problem there. Until, that is, I try to type the word "glad" in regular communication...
On the flip side, I almost always accidentally type "abdomen and elvis" at work...

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 08:55 AM

Sometimes when I type a word and put it through the spell checker it still doesn't always look right even though it is telling me that it's spelt correctly.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 06:31 PM

One writer revealed that he always tried to avoid the word 'circumscribed'.

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 07:09 PM

'spelt' - shouldn't that be 'spelled'?

:-P

Subject: RE: BS: Spelling exploits
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 07:35 PM

new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, and not the original books.

So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there was an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies. The head monk says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."

So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original. Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books crying. He asks what's wrong.

"The word is celebrate not celibate," says the old monk with tears in his eyes.