# Random misspellings you've encountered in the wild **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339 "2018-12-18T20:25:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/41 "2018-12-27T11:39:31Z")
> [@Space\_Vegetable](#): > > NO PARKING YOUR CAR WILL BE TOWED AT YOUR EXSPENCE > > Naturally, no one parked there. Someone who spelled like that, who knew what other horrible things they’d be capable of doing. I thought that was going to be a comment about the run on sentence. Sort of like the signs I occasionally see that say “NO SMOKING FOOD OR DRINK”. So…I can still smoke a Winston as long as I don’t light up my carrot, right? ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/42 "2018-12-27T12:32:24Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > This one is I believe a conflation of misspelling and a malapropism: > > “Dribble” for Drivel. I recall that in my (UK) schooldays, the majority of a lifetime ago; my schoolfellows used “dribble” and “drivel” interchangeably. Attributable, I feel, to teenage males’ largely-failed attempts at witty wordplay… ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/43 "2018-12-27T13:36:25Z")
Cramberries ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/44 "2018-12-27T16:53:29Z")
Duck with blubbery sauce (from a hotel menu in Israel). ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/45 "2018-12-27T17:43:41Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > Umm, no apostrophe is needed, because NO LETTERS ARE MISSING! Probably not random misspellings, because they’re clearly intentional, but what the intention IS, I can’t fathom. Maybe add one o’ them posse-trophs? That’ll class it up real nice! > [@notfrommensa](#): > > Sign at a Country Club’s 19th Hole > > \*\*Fowl Language will not be tolerated. > \*\* Aha, the plot indeed chickens. * * * Just ran across [this one](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/the-p-39-airacobra/) today: > [@](#): > > World War II was fought with intense veracity worldwide, but rarely with more savagery than on the Eastern Front… ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/46 "2018-12-27T18:17:46Z")
At one time I collected misspellings of my last name, which had been “simplified” when my grandparents came to America. I stopped after 22. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/47 "2019-01-09T15:42:52Z")
I’m (yet again) packing up the house for a move, and the “Dish Barrel”-size box has a list, with check boxes, of which room the box should go to. I haven’t decided where the “Dinning Room” will be in our new home. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/48 "2019-01-09T17:35:23Z")
Forest as “forrest”, twice in a row, showing it to not be a slip of a finger. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/49 "2019-01-09T21:50:39Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Sign at a Country Club’s 19th Hole > > \*\*Fowl Language will not be tolerated. > \*\* C’mon, that’s such a poultry error. On a gardening message board I used to frequent (GardenWeb), it was common for people to post about their “perrenials”, sometimes even their perineals. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/50 "2019-01-09T21:58:10Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > The standard posted warning has never been all that literate, but for awhile it had this curious typo: > > “Owners who wish to do so may move their cars before hand.” Normally I’d not say anything, but, given the thread, I have to point out your typo. It would be “for a while,” as the preposition “for” needs a noun “while,” not an adverb “awhile.” Of course, it’s very likely that I will have some error that I didn’t notice or know about in this post. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/51 "2019-01-10T15:54:04Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’m (yet again) packing up the house for a move, and the “Dish Barrel”-size box has a list, with check boxes, of which room the box should go to. I haven’t decided where the “Dinning Room” will be in our new home. And, BTW, the list printed on the side of the box had “Dining Room” spelled correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/52 "2019-01-10T16:36:47Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Sign at a Country Club’s 19th Hole > > \*\*Fowl Language will not be tolerated. > \*\* Duck that. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/53 "2019-01-10T16:41:58Z")
^ Does this mean you can’t shoot a Birdie or an Eagle or an Albatross any more? ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/54 "2019-01-11T04:51:45Z")
There used to be a store near me that for over a year had a sign out front advertising their “Gran Oppening”. I die just a little bit inside every time I see someone post about their pet chiwawa. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/55 "2019-01-11T14:01:27Z")
When I was a Physics Teaching Assistant, grading papers and lab reports from clueless undergrads, I once encountered the spelling _excelleration_. After marking up his mathematical errors, I crossed out the offending word and wrote _Accelent!_ underneath. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/56 "2019-01-20T15:15:19Z")
Mt Sinia Baptist Church ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/57 "2019-01-20T18:04:45Z")
“Whines up” for “winds up”. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/58 "2019-01-20T18:32:37Z")
My husband just noticed on a box of store brand Immodium “For the symphony of diarrhea”. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/59 "2019-01-20T21:46:28Z")
Also, “kari-out” posted on this very message board. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/60 "2019-01-20T22:19:26Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > My husband just noticed on a box of store brand Immodium “For the symphony of diarrhea”. Great, now I have the 1812 Overture as an earworm. A previous boss of mine - a fairly high level administrator - placed a hand-written sign above a clogged sink notifying all that the plummer has been called. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339.md?page=4)