Don’t forget:
Catch Eh? - Canadian for " Did you want me to catch the puck?"
Catch Eh! - Canadian for “Yes catch the puck!”:mad:
Catch Eh. - Canadian for “Got you coach, I’ll catch the puck.”
And then there is the word “airborne” (often used by the military) that is mispelled more often than it is correctly spelled. A fellow Vancouver Islander even wrote a book he entitled “Airborn” and received the American Library Association’s Printz Honor!
And now they are making a movie with the same fucked up title!
Mounted infantry is spelled “Dragoons.”
Edgar Allan Poe - a famous American author who was raised by the Allan family after his parents died
Edgar Allen Poe - no such person
Well if you misuse either the hill or the horsey soldiers around me, you had better learn to pray to the Almighty that he sends 7th to your aid, because I will Samuel Jackson you up.
Capital - a city
Capitol - a building, probably in that city
So is a Burro Burrow an Asshole in the ground?
Que
(n.) A half farthing.
http://www.onelook.com/?other=web1913&w=Que
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=que
http://www.freedictionary.org/?Query=que
Lest we forget: Cavalier – an armed horseman
Honorable mentions:
Cavil – to find fault to a fault
Caviler – a faulty fault finder
I had no idea you could do a half fart. Isn’t that like being a little pregnant?
A student yesterday formally protested his professor denying him an A on a paper that used the phrase “in sink” repeatedly. (And that was the least of his problems, but I couldn’t take the protest seriously on that basis alone. So I threw his protest “in toilet”.)
Did he begin sentences with conjunctions too?
Thank you. THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Amen! Please someone make a sticky post of this!
Not as often seen but also annoying:
humorous - having the quality of humor
humerus - bone in the upper arm
humerous - ??having the quality of a bone in the upper arm??
I sound like a broken record, but want to take every chance to point out it’s restaurateur, not restauranteur.
humerous - Common name funny bone.
In the US, at least, the polloi have had restauranteur so long it’s at least pretentious and possibly even pedantic to insist upon restaurateur. Plus you won’t find much support for overly Frenchifying anything.
The solution is just to avoid French altogether.
Ah. That actually makes perfect sense.
It’s still wrong, though.
Several times!
FUCKING NU-CLE-AR!!!
You’re the ex-President for Christ sakes. Didn’t you have advisors???