# Internet-only misspellings which drive you crazy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866 "2007-02-12T16:52:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866/61 "2007-02-13T15:29:46Z")
[QUOTE=Cazzle] Congradulations on starting this thread!! The misspellings you see on the internet are sometimes quiet rediculous. My favourite homonym error is still the one in my local paper a few years back - “Police say they are unlikely to recover the stolen goods unless the thieves attempt to porn them”. [/QUOTE] But is that a just a misspelling, a typo or a real homonym? Or perhaps just a homophone because of regional pronunciation? Last I heard, _porn_ wasn’t a verb. (But maybe it could be. Mmmmm.) Maybe the thieves could try to fence the stolen goods at obscenely low (or high) prices. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866/62 "2007-02-13T15:32:44Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] I sort of like typos. I think they’re usually pretty funny and can make some of the biggest tight asses seem a little more human. [/QUOTE] [frex](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=402456#post8112091) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866/63 "2007-02-13T15:32:51Z")
[QUOTE=Cleophus] I assume you mean in place of “segue?” I know people who use “segway” like that when speaking. [/QUOTE] I was thinking of buying a Segway, but now maybe I’ll get a Segue, after reading this post. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866/64 "2007-02-13T16:05:50Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] How do you mean? Is “segway” a proper word? [/QUOTE] [Segway](http://www.segway.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866/65 "2007-02-13T16:18:42Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] “Loose” for “lose”, as in “I win! You loose!” [/QUOTE] Although I thought “loose her virginity” was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866/66 "2007-02-13T23:41:38Z")
typos don’t bug me so much; which is good because I commit them all too often. It’s the homonym mistakes and creative spelling of more coloquially used words that bug me. I see a lot of weird ones: peeked for piqued shutter for shudder sight for (web)site lense for lens ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866/67 "2007-02-14T06:49:59Z")
Not really misspellings, but mis-meme-ings: “virii” and “penii.” Does anyone really believe these are legit plurals, or are they just being cute? ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866/68 "2007-02-14T06:55:14Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun] [Segway](http://www.segway.com/) [/QUOTE] Ah, interesting. So that’s what those things are called. I would assume, however, that it would be pretty clear from the context whether the person really means a segway or whether they’re misspelling segue. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-only-misspellings-which-drive-you-crazy/391866.md?page=3)