# People who cannot spell **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731 "2005-02-24T17:18:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![lunarnoodle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@lunarnoodle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunarnoodle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/101 "2005-02-28T05:02:24Z")
I would give every organ for an edit feature. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/102 "2005-02-28T05:37:11Z")
[Popular misspellings of Britney Spears when searching on Google](http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html) Some are just plain wacky. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/103 "2005-02-28T21:03:44Z")
What about the confusion between -ware/-wear? I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s seen publicly displayed signs mentioning “footware”, “swimware”, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/104 "2005-02-28T21:08:47Z")
> [@lunarnoodle](#): > > I would give every organ for an edit feature. Please, no editing. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/105 "2005-02-28T22:38:32Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > OK, this is getting out of hand. Right now there is a thread titled not, “From which end do you peel a banana?”, but **Which end to you peel an bannana from?"** > > We’re here to fight ignorance. > > Can we use weapons? That should be used in the next mod smiting. “Here, have a **BAN** nana.” But if you have something against ending a sentence in a preposition, well, that is an outdated rule up with which I will not put. [sub]With apologies to PM Churchill[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/106 "2005-03-01T01:38:28Z")
> [@Nightwatch Trailer](#): > > “Mispelling,” by the way, is one that gets on my nerves all the time. Me too, particularly since I spent YEARS (even though I’m a fairly decent speller), spelling it this way thanks to an old Secretary’s Handbook that had this as the CORRECT spelling in it’s list of “Commonly Misspelled words and the Correct Spellings” section!!! GEEEZ What a typo to make! Must have been a Monday when the proof reader okayed that one. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/107 "2005-03-01T21:20:56Z")
[QUOTE=Chanteuse] When I was a kid and learning how to spell words that could be tricky, my parents used to teach me tricks to remember: “Would you like a PIEce of PIE?” “Who would beLIEve a LIE?” and There’s A RAT in sepARATe. [QUOTE] “There are no a’s buried in the cemetery.” > [@Lobsang](#): > > Some words don’t look right when spelled correctly, and ‘soley’ is one of them IMO. “Livelily” also, although it doesn’t get used too often. It doesn’t even sound right. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/108 "2005-03-01T21:22:26Z")
“There are no a’s in cemetery”…“Livelily”…you get the point. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/109 "2005-03-01T22:55:33Z")
> [@BayleDomon](#): > > That should be used in the next mod smiting. “Here, have a **BAN** nana.” > > But if you have something against ending a sentence in a preposition, well, that is an outdated rule up with which I will not put. > [sub]With apologies to PM Churchill[/sub] Ditto. There is an example of this in the movie “Dogma” right after Rufus falls from the sky, Bethany has a line with a “with which” that makes it sound terribly stilted. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/110 "2005-03-01T23:48:42Z")
Peeple who carnt spell are moroons. ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/111 "2005-03-01T23:49:01Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > What about the confusion between -ware/-wear? I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s seen publicly displayed signs mentioning “footware”, “swimware”, and so on. Antique silver collectors have started paying attention to the amount of “ware” present or absent when discussing 18th-century spoons and forks… you know, silverwear. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/112 "2005-03-02T01:34:47Z")
What about all the people who drive wrecklessly? So ludacrist. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/113 "2005-03-02T05:18:03Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > Still that bowl/bowel thing is really annoying, definitely not interchangeable words. I lived for a month in my teens in a government-run shelter home. The cupboards in the kitchen were all labelled in big letters, and one of them was labelled “BOWELS”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/114 "2005-03-02T19:12:26Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > Hypocracy. How can anyone even _think_ that’s correct? Well, the citizens need very little governing. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/115 "2005-03-02T19:21:35Z")
Just saw this one in another forum. _Circumcism._ **Circumcism???** You have _got_ to be kidding. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/116 "2005-03-02T19:23:36Z")
Here goes… Beauracracy Nope Beauraarcy Nope. Again Beuraecracy Almost there… Beauraecracy Can’t do it now, I’ll never be able to. The world will have to live with it. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/117 "2005-03-02T21:15:02Z")
Somebody just mentioned having some dogs that are a bit _skiddish_. Buy ‘em some freakin’ snow paws, then. ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/118 "2005-03-02T22:29:15Z")
For the life of me, I cannot spell the word “recommend” (reccomend) correctly on the first pass. “Vacuum” (vaccuum) is also tough - I seem to have an affinity for non-existant double Cs. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/119 "2005-03-02T22:33:03Z")
I spelled recommend wrong in a GQ post, and knew it… after pressing submit. (same way as you, doulble-c instead of double-m) ---
**Author:** ![Page\_Fault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@Page\_Fault](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Page_Fault)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731/120 "2005-03-03T21:53:28Z")
Worst one I’ve ever seen? Wasn’t a typo, either. This is just the worst this person did, not the only. The word: Business. The spelling: bissnise Uhhh… okay. Go conduct your ‘bissnise’ then. Have fun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-cannot-spell/291731.md?page=7)