# People Can't Spell! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255 "2008-06-26T00:35:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/61 "2008-06-27T14:38:25Z")
Do not despair, the [Typo Eradication Advancement League](http://www.jeffdeck.com/teal/about.html) have just completed a tour around the USA to fight the good fight. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/62 "2008-06-27T17:03:16Z")
[QUOTE=CairoCarol] Hey, you’re right. And “menus” rhymes with “penis.” [/QUOTE] What the hell kind of restaurants are you going to? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/63 "2008-06-27T17:28:12Z")
In-N-Out Burger. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/64 "2008-06-27T18:58:00Z")
I remember back in the first Iraq war, seeing a photo of American airmen loading a bomb aboard a plane, and chalked on it was a message 'Highjack this, you fags". That got a lot of complaints from GLBT Americans about the bigotry displayed. But the biggest complaints were from the Gay Lesbian Teachers Network, who were incensed both by the bigotry, and also by the spelling error! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Pangloss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Peter\_Pangloss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Pangloss)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/65 "2008-06-27T19:46:42Z")
I work in a public library. We’re supposed to be the stewards of literacy, you know? Our new restroom signs were installed a few months ago, and they read: MENS WOMENS The elevator sign in our parking lot reads: ELEVATOR IN OPERATION FROM 8 AM - MIDNITE Our staff has produced posters for special library programs in the last month reading LEARN THE CRAFT OF ORAGAMI and FOCUS ON GENERE LITERATURE. I cry a lot when I’m alone. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/66 "2008-06-27T19:58:22Z")
[QUOTE=schnuckiputzi] Yesterday we went to Linens N Things in Springfield, looking for dorm stuff. They had a purple silky sleep mask, embroidered with black, saying “Need cafiene.” Maybe a joke, as in I can’t spell until I’ve had my coffee, but, jeezz. [/QUOTE] That must explain my friend’s magnet: “All the coffee in Columbia won’t wake me up today.” [QUOTE=Litoris] Being on well water here, and only drinking bottled water, our doctor suggested that we buy it – and we did, until our dentist prescribed a special toothpaste for us instead. [/QUOTE] How do you know so much about what your doctor does for water? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/67 "2008-06-27T20:02:30Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Pangloss] FOCUS ON _GENERE_ LITERATURE. [/QUOTE] What the eff is genere supposed to read? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/68 "2008-06-27T20:12:10Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] What the eff is genere supposed to read? [/QUOTE] Genre, I expect. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/69 "2008-06-27T20:20:30Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] That must explain my friend’s magnet: “All the coffee in Columbia won’t wake me up today.” How do you know so much about what your doctor does for water? 😉 [/QUOTE] Well, there are at least six Starbucks listed for Columbia, MD. So maybe (probably not, but maybe) that is what they’re getting at?? Just sayin’. . . ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/70 "2008-06-27T20:56:36Z")
I caught a little bit of “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” last night, and noticed that when they used a question sent in by a viewer, they posted a message onscreen that said that his class “will recieve a new computer lab.” That’s when I turned it off. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/71 "2008-06-28T01:15:36Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Pangloss] I work in a public library. We’re supposed to be the stewards of literacy, you know? Our new restroom signs were installed a few months ago, and they read: MENS WOMENS The elevator sign in our parking lot reads: ELEVATOR IN OPERATION FROM 8 AM - MIDNITE I cry a lot when I’m alone. [/QUOTE] Over here, the English-language bathroom signs frequently read MAN and WOMAN. And we have a Midnite Bar in the Soi Cowboy bar area. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/72 "2008-06-28T03:45:22Z")
I’ve been trying for ages to figure out if I need to tell the local grocery store that their signs listing their summer hours should not read “Summer Hour’s.” ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/73 "2008-06-28T17:00:37Z")
So what colour was your plough when you got it off of the aeroplane? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/74 "2008-06-28T19:41:43Z")
Yesterday at work I noticed a letter drafted from our office to the leasing office of one of our buildings. It was referring to the space being leased on “Friday’s”. This typo occurred several times throughout the letter. I hate for it to be mailed, but I can’t bring it to anyone’s attention to be corrected because I was just being nosy and had no business reading it, anyway. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255/75 "2008-06-28T22:57:50Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] If they were American, it would have been “driver’s license.” [/QUOTE] Here’s a weirdness: many people here refer to it in the plural. Like this: Q: Does he have his drivers’ license? A: Yeah, he’s got 'em. or A: Naw, they got lost in the mail. It’s confusing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-cant-spell/454255.md?page=3)