# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/81 "2019-05-31T18:48:11Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > … > I confess, I use “gonna.” … > [@saucywench](#): > > But why? Occasionally I do too; it’s to effect a certain attitude, similar to using “kinda” or “ain’t.” ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/82 "2019-05-31T20:31:44Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > This one is I believe a conflation of misspelling and a malapropism: > > “Dribble” for Drivel. Frances McDormand in _Burn After Reading_! I occasionally see a pickup truck in the neighborhood advertising their work with rod iron. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/83 "2019-06-01T01:19:34Z")
I’m reminded of a high end jewelry store downtown that I used to pass quite often back in the day. They had a bunch of little hand-calligraphed placards they’d place next to some of the finer items in their windows. All of them read, “To Close Out A Estate.” They’d used these placards for ages and, for all I know, may be using them still. This one’s not a misspelling but I thought I’d throw it in anyway. Last night as I was perusing Instagram, I came across an ad for something or other. I can’t remember what the company does but the ad assured me that they carefully do it with care. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/84 "2019-06-01T03:37:41Z")
> [@Rough\_Draft](#): > > Yeah, that happens a lot. Another town from that part of the state that gets misspelled often is Willcox. I’m glad I’m not the only one to see how often Tucson gets misspelled. I worked at a high-end restaurant where Willcox tomatoes were a thing; otherwise, I wouldn’t have guessed Willcox was spelled with double "l"s. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/85 "2019-06-02T04:44:46Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 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. Well, if Captain Von Trapp can command a ship in land-locked Austria, he can certainly unclog a sink. ---
**Author:** ![pabstist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@pabstist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pabstist)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/86 "2019-06-03T03:45:40Z")
“frezzer $125” at a yard sale, so close. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/87 "2019-06-03T15:55:40Z")
The one I encounter most frequently is _ **isle** _. I work with fire alarm system designers and they are forever asking if the notification appliances (usually strobes) and smoke detectors should be centered over the\*\*\* isles\*\*\* in the store. I patiently respond, “No. They should be centered over the _ **aisles** _.” Nobody ever seems to pick up on this. This is so common that I have asked several architects if _ **isle** _ is used to refer to the sets of shelves or millwork. I’ve been assured it does not. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/88 "2019-06-03T18:38:52Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > _holding up right hand_ > > I confess, I use “gonna.” But I refuse to use the “abbreviations” common to texting. > > I do cringe when I hear “going to go.” Why not just “go?” > ~VOW Would you object to “planning to go”? > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I think it should \*always \*be spelled “apostrophe’s”. > mmm I want to take that one home and cuddle it. During the department’s open house, one year, my boss had to change welcome message on the variable message sign because they’d left out the L in Public Works. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/89 "2019-06-03T21:34:45Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > But the worst of all is the new trend to be “formal” and say “between you and I.” Retch! Puke! Hurl! I want to drag people back to school, cram them into little desks, and force them into mandatory English grammar classes. Yes! The will have to spend hours inhaling chalk dust as they stand at blackboards and DIAGRAM SENTENCES! Objective and subjective! Object of the preposition! Would you prefer “between you and myself”? I’m hearing “myself” more and more these days, where it should be simply “me”. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/90 "2019-06-04T22:55:26Z")
You know those carry-on sized rolling suitcases? They’re often called “roll aboard” suitcases because you can roll them onboard the plane. Except commonly on travel related forums I see them called “roller boards”. I think the funniest misspelling I ever encountered was on another board where someone wrote “mid-evil” when they meant “medieval”. What the heck is mid-evil, someone who’s kind of evil, but isn’t quite fully evil yet? ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/91 "2019-06-05T05:34:44Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Occasionally I do too; it’s to effect a certain attitude, similar to using “kinda” or “ain’t.” Clunky sentence notwithstanding, shouldn’t it be “affect” the verb and not “effect” the noun? What is the attitude? The Clampett Effect? Or maybe,…the Dogpatch Demeanor? Regardless, I would have never guessed this could be a Canadian “thing.” Which reminds me of this one… Git Unless you’re herding dogies, or singing about it, just don’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/92 "2019-06-05T15:01:33Z")
I’ve worked a couple of times at a company whose main client (and later, majority owner) was listed in a lot of Production documentation as [RoRoi](https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/en-GB/ghost-overview.html). One of the programmers mentioned drily that the humanoid entity who produced those mussel-abortions(1) thought she was classy. I replied “well, someone’s got to be at the bottom of the last class I guess.” 1: direct translation of the Spanish _aborto de mejillón_. One may or may not like mussels, but nobody has ever accused a mussel of being pretty (the shell, ok; the mussel, no). ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/93 "2019-06-06T14:54:51Z")
Fun thread! In another forum about relationships, a woman posted that she had no luck dating. One of her female fans proclaimed, “Oh that’s right, everyone is intimidated by you. I forgot.” Then one of the many Elliot Rodger-type regulars piped in, “That makes me LOL when women say that. Either you are mean or over valueing[sic] your pretty.” Creepy dude, but “overvaluing” your pretty was pretty funny. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/94 "2019-06-06T18:37:07Z")
While heading down to Ocala yesterday, we passed a roadside Mom-&-Pop vegetable stand that were selling (2 foot tall red letters on their sign) SWEETPATATOS. And, I think, MANGOS, but the “N” looked like a “D” so it could have been MADGOS. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/95 "2019-06-08T02:09:57Z")
Homosexuals going after Dire Straights ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/96 "2019-06-08T02:20:19Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > I am also of the old school which will never accept the word “alright.” It is NOT a word. Period. Nor is “anymore”. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/97 "2019-06-08T02:28:52Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Occasionally I do too; it’s to effect a certain attitude, similar to using “kinda” or “ain’t.” > [@saucywench](#): > > Clunky sentence notwithstanding, shouldn’t it be “affect” the verb and not “effect” the noun? No, but it should be “affect” the verb and not “effect” the verb. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/98 "2019-06-08T02:32:27Z")
Giving someone “free reign”. People who are going “too do” something, or are going “too” a particular place. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/99 "2019-06-08T03:22:04Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > No, but it should be “affect” the verb and not “effect” the verb. Got me! > [@SCAdian](#): > > Giving someone “free reign”. > > People who are going “too do” something, or are going “too” a particular place. I was going to do a few like “free reign” for “free rein,” that work contextually even though they are wrong. Others: Chomping at the bit, should be “champing” at the bit. Awe! for Aww! ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/100 "2019-06-22T21:27:30Z")
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