[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”.
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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.
[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.
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[QUOTE=Cleophus]
I assume you mean in place of “segue?” I know people who use “segway” like that when speaking.
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I was thinking of buying a Segway, but now maybe I’ll get a Segue, after reading this post.
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
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.
