BS: Mispelled Werds

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: bobad
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 11:42 PM

Just a gentle reminder - when used to mean also there are two o's in too.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 01:14 PM

Some peoples smelling has been bad for years.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 12:45 PM

"The title is facetious (which is, incidentally, one of two words in English in which the vowels appear in order (a,e,i,o,u)). FYI. " Peace

And sometimes y.   Still works with 'facetiously'. Cool.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 11:02 AM

How odd that 'GUEST' noticed that 'misspell' was misspelled (or misspelt if you're a lazy colonial) :-) and felt the need to comment on it, yet the misspelling of 'words' appears to have escaped him (or her or it).

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 11:01 AM

Misspelt & misspelled are both allowed in my spelling checker. I 'suspect' that the former is more common in the UK.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Peace
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 10:23 AM

"Surely it is misspell, not mispell?"

Surely it is. The title is facetious (which is, incidentally, one of two words in English in which the vowels appear in order (a,e,i,o,u)). FYI.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: GUEST,bagpuss
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 05:21 AM

And arguably misspelt rather than mispelled.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 05:18 AM

Surely it is misspell, not mispell?

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 04:43 AM

Sanatorium, pronounced wrongly as 'sanat-AIR-ium.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 01:05 PM

http://www.joppeluiten.nl/phtholognyrrh.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 11:25 AM

**NOTICE** Pedant alert! I consider it reasonably important for communication and civility to make what I say here conform to some basic standards, though NOT as if I were writing for publication. If you do NOT care how your posts appear, I guess you may ignore my pedantry. (You may spell as you wish, of course, but SuperSearch sure has problems with mind reading.)




ahem!
We do not all have equal skills or abilities. I am a very mediocre typist, but a moderately good speller. I have some problems with my eyes and I have a nerve in my neck that causes posture problems. I have to be careful how I sit to type; I have to look at my fingers when I type; I ought to double check before I push the 'post' button, as my brain gets out of sync, and I sometimes leave out words.

I understand that others may have dyslexia, varying amounts of education, language differences and personal 'preferences' about their typing habits and are sometimes in a hurry.

What I do NOT understand is why people who have problems will wear glasses for their eye problems, but not use a spell checker to improve what they post. (Unfortunately, there is no grammar & punctuation checker yet).
   When I am going to be on Mudcat, I use TinySpell. It takes ONE click to change 'wierd' to 'weird'...and I can instruct the program to tolerate my wish to sometimes use 'thru' rather than spelling out 'through'. I can also turn OFF the warning 'beep' if I wish to intentionally spell like bobert to make a point.

There are various ways to do check spelling.....some type in a word processor and paste into the box here; I just prefer to do it 'on the fly'. (Of course, TinySpell is a PC program, but MAC users have spell checkers also).

*end pedant alert*

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 10:20 AM

Sounds good two me.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Peace
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 10:10 AM

practice / practise

I use practice as the noun and practise as the verb.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 09:56 AM

ou=you.

I'm still Russian [well, not really]

But I am outta here for a while.

Carry on.

[not that anyone needs my permission...

I'm just sayin]

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 09:53 AM

Amos,

ou talkin to me? You TALKIN to me? You talkin to ME?!

[well I am a female Sagittarius, so at least the firey feminine part is right and I'm interested in the astrology so the stars part fits too. But I don't know about the "hunk" part. I thought only men could be hunks].

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 09:00 AM

You too, you star-lit hunk of fiery femininity!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 08:14 AM

Ha! speaking about rushing

Here's the sentence I meant to write-

"Besides, imo, it's not what he said as much as the way he said what he said."

****
And since I'm hear {HA! I did that on purpose} Since I'm hair...I mean "here"... This is for oldschool fans of the Bill Cosby show:

I bet ya didn't know that Rudy [from the Cosby show] had a twin sister.

What was her name?












Politey



[Okay-I'm REALLY leavin now]

Have a good day!

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Janie
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 08:11 AM

One of my favorites--outside a rather pricey restaurant....
"Now Excepting Reservations."

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 08:08 AM

But to get back to the original subject of misspelled words...

One reason why people mispell words is that they're Russian.


[Okay..I'm leaving}.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Mr Red
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 08:08 AM

there their they're......................

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 08:07 AM

bobad,

I rest my case. The NAACP is not necessarily known as a big tent for all classes of African Americans. Speaking generally, members of that old school organization might have some problems relating to the peeps in the hood don't ya think?...a bit of an image problem and ..

And furthermore, Cosby should have known that his words would get media attention and be misconstrued and used as ammunition for those who like to divide and conquer.

Besides, imo, it's not what he said as much as they way he said what he said.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: jonm
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 07:24 AM

practice / practise

there / their / they're / even the're sometimes....

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: bobad
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 07:11 AM

"I wonder-which audience was he speaking to when he mouthed those words? Hmmm."

It was from the address to the NAACP's Gala to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billcosbypoundcakespeech.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: GUEST,Dazbo
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 07:09 AM

Apropos of nothin' in particlar:

Olny srmat poelpe can. Cluodnt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was reanidg. 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 t! he 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 huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

If you can raed tihs psas it on !!

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 06:19 AM

Does

Misusing "effect" would not affect me, but might effect a misunderstanding

affect tolerance or simply unconcern?

John

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 06:12 AM

Shizzors, uh...skissors, uh...

As a perfessional poorfreder, I abwhore this thread!

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 05:52 AM

To get back on track, not just miss-spelings, but also pismronounciations:-

Restaurateur, regularly pismronounced as "Restauranteur"

Vulnerable, frequently pismronounced as "Vunnerable"

Nuclear, famously pismronounced "Nucular" (come to think of it, I hate everything that dickhead says).

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 04:14 AM

Tihs trhead is grate

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Feb 06 - 12:07 AM

btw-for the record..I wrote my last comment before I read Little Hawk's last post.

Little Hawk said: "I also see, thankfully, plenty of young people who don't fall into those TV-created stereotypes, and can express themselves in more than a handful of dumb catch phrases and "cool" sayings."

Yeah, Little Hawk, I hear you, but ya know, [to paraphase a now famous saying] it depends on what the meaning of 'dumb' [and 'cool'] is. One person's dumb may be another person's cool [and vise versa].

It ain't all good. But it ain't all bad either {"bad" here having its standard English meaning of not good}.

So I wanna go back to my beginning post in this thread and praise the creativity that I see evidenced by [some-not all] purposeful mispelling. This may not have been what Peace was thinking about when he started this thread, but it's where my mind went...

So there!

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Azizi
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 11:54 PM

In case I wasn't clear, let me say it this way:

By the use of those examples, Bill Cosby added energy to the ghetto talkin Black folks stereotype.

I wonder-which audience was he speaking to when he mouthed those words? Hmmm.

Though there's no question that in order to "make it" in mainstream American society, people need to know how to speak & write what is generally considered to be standard English, there are other standards, and other languaging modalities in this country. Included among them are many creative African American oral and written traditions old and new- such as jazz jive talk and hip-hop. These creative soul traditions help to keep the English language fresh.

So later for Bill Cosby. As the young girls say in their street cheers: "Poof with the attitude"! And as some of those hanging on street corner guys might say---well-I won't go there. But just use your imagination. It's a free world-or so they say.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 11:47 PM

I don't like it when I see any group of people reduced to a style of talk that dumbs them down severely.

I saw that happen to white "hippy" kids in the late 60's and early 70's. I see it happening with both white and black youngsters now.

I also see, thankfully, plenty of young people who don't fall into those TV-created stereotypes, and can express themselves in more than a handful of dumb catch phrases and "cool" sayings.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Azizi
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 11:37 PM

Borrowing another reference from a tv show I liked much less than Cosby's Huckstable family show} I'd ask Bill Cosby
"What you talkin about, Willis?"

But since I get his drift, I'd say to Bill Cosby:

"To each his [or her]own,

different strokes for different folks

and

remember your roots and culture".

{I would also add that "It takes a village to raise a child", but that supposedly African saying has gotten so overworked that it has gotten tired...

though in many ways it's still true...

And if I had a singing voice, I'd sing to Bill Cosby,
he's not heavy, he's my brother.

and reach out and touch somebody's hand
make this a better world if you can"

Then I'd bring it down home and sing this spiritual:
"You gotta mind [You gotta mind]
You gotta mind [You gotta mind]
You gotta give an account at the judgement
You gotta mind
[repeat chorus 1x]

You gotta mind how you talk
You gotta mind what you talkin about
You gotta give an account at the judgement
You gotta mind.

chorus


****

And if after all that, if Bill Cosby didn't get what I was sayin to
him, and if he continued to let his mouth run faster than his mind, I'd leave his sorry ass alone to reap from "these people" what he had sowed.

That's my answer to your question, bobad.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Cluin
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 11:29 PM

Omigod, Bruce! You mean you can't keep up with American Idol?

Dontcha feel all empty inside?

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Peace
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 11:27 PM

I don't have a TV.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Cluin
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 11:15 PM

Yeah, that never happened with the Italians. Or the East Indians. Or the American Indians. Or people in the South. Or Canadians neither, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 11:02 PM

Well, here's my thought on it. I think American TV and movies in the past 20 years have turned black people (many of them) into steretypes of themselves...

I think Cosby is dead right.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 10:54 PM

Nvermind... I thought this thread was aboput me...

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: bobad
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 10:52 PM

Azizi

What's your take on Bill Cosby's opinion of "creative out of the box stylin"

"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. ... Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. ... You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 10:51 PM

Yeah, you see a lot of that now. It's a style. Bobert mispells on purpose too, to get that hillbilly style.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Azizi
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 10:37 PM

Sometimes people mispell words on purpose. I'm particularly interested in how hip-hop culture adopts non-standard ways to spell a word like it sounds.

Particularly among bloggers who are younger [or hipper than many of us "Catters] I've noticed that numbers are mixed in with phonetically spelled words and blog abbreviations such as "LOL" probably to increase the speed of writing/communciation but also to purposely convey a a generational, "cool" style.

For example, see this excerpt from a blogger who described herself as a teenager:

"Glory, glory hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a rulah
I met her at the door
With a loaded .44
And she ain't gonna teach no more!

ok ok ... its bad but its not 4 your lil kids .. of course ... yes i am a bad lil gurl hehe..."
Wheee! Blog
posted by Cassi at April 17, 2004

****

While I recognize that people living in English speaking and English writing countries have to master standard English, I applaud the creative out of the box stylin that is symbolic of hip-hop culture.

More power to the people!

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 10:24 PM

The numerous TV newscasters who say supremist instead of supremacist

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 09:42 PM

I sez to myself "What flipheaded flipface wood start a thred about mispelled words and MISPELL a word in the flippin' TITTLE????"

Bruce, eh? Thought so!

What a flippin' hosehead this guy is, eh? He can't flippin' get it right. nOt never. Not sometimes. nOt hardly even once. Then what I could not be-flippin'-LEEV is...he spelled "Beleeve wrong" too, eh? What a looser!

I oughta start teachin' youse people English cos I see a lotta fippin' errers on this forum. A lot. More than a flippin' few. Know what I'm sayin'?

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 09:12 PM

forgo forego

read read read red reading Reading

lead led led lead leading leading

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: When you are trying to make an impression, the chances are that is the impression you will make. :||

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 01:10 PM

Simon Stylites was pillared....

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 12:57 PM

Bell bloody weather drives me nuts..as does pillared for pilloried, ZEEEE for Zed , and car ensurance.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Kaleea
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 12:40 PM

Ah, American spelling rules. The result of combining mini languages into won.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 12:22 PM

ghoti

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 12:17 PM

"The wind was rough
And cold and blough.
She kept her hands
Inside her mough."

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: bobad
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 10:54 AM

"I started this thread because I am up to freakin' here (imagine hand about an arm's length above head) with politics and religion. FYI"

Thanks for giving us pedants a chance to blame the ills of the world on the abuse of grammar.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: David C. Carter
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 10:33 AM

"Merci beaucoup"
"Merci beau cul"

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 10:06 AM

Pronounciation is right there with you, Jerry!

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Paul Burke
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 09:55 AM

Paralell flourescence guage is wierd.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Crystal
Date: 31 Jan 06 - 09:51 AM

thay
I still spell it that way sometimes!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 02:11 PM

I started this thread because I am up to freakin' here (imagine hand about an arm's length above head) with politics and religion. FYI

Fish is always misspelled. It's really ghoti.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 02:08 PM

knew-new-gnu

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 01:44 PM

your-you're
there-their-they're
to-too-two
loose-lose

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 01:30 PM

My pet hate...maybe in the UK only...is when people say "I could of done that" instead of "I could have done that"....many of them actually write it the same way as they say it....sad eh?
Best wishes, Mike
What do you think Broose....Broosie?

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Janie
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 01:07 PM

Some werds my brane can spel but not my phingers. Some words my brain used to know how to spell, but brainfarts have fumigated that infermation out of existenze. Sugar dibs, high blood and very close veins will do that to a purson.

xxoo,

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: open mike
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 01:02 PM

see the thread about puctuation..
plural's don't need appostrphe's

mischievious

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 01:01 PM

Misusing "effect" would not affect me, but might effect a misunderstanding.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: bobad
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 12:54 PM

Affect and effect not necessarily mispelled but often misused.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 12:44 PM

If you have a problem, call the Maintainance man.

Jerey

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 12:39 PM

Peace, that is one of the common misuses that astonishes me. Don't people realize that among their other uses, loose is when you free something, and lose is when you can't find it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 12:31 PM

Loose for lose and lose for loose.

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 12:27 PM

broose or broosie

Subject: RE: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 12:26 PM

Witchspelled Nerds?

Subject: BS: Mispelled Werds
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jan 06 - 12:25 PM

Beleive