# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/101 "2019-06-24T05:28:55Z")
skitzo frantic ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/102 "2019-06-24T13:02:30Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > 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”. Actually, Rollaboard is a trademarked brand name and roller board has become an accepted generic term. > **[Roller Board vs. Roll Aboard: The Definitive Answer - Fly&Dine](https://flyanddine.boardingarea.com/roller-board-vs-roll-aboard-the-definitive-answer/)** > > What do you call wheeled carry-on luggage? Is it a roller board or a Rollaboard? Fly&Dine sets out to find the definitive answer. I encountered my all time favorite misspelling when I was a regular in a forum for the families of terminally ill cancer patients. One of the posters was a young woman whose husband had a serious blood cancer. When the inevitable happened, she started a thread with the title “My husband past away” It was a little bit funny and more than a little bit sad, incredibly poignant and oddly appropriate. I will always remember it. ---
**Author:** ![bizerta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@bizerta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizerta)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/103 "2019-06-25T23:49:09Z")
No refunds. No acceptions. Fred won a metal for winning the race. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/104 "2019-06-26T12:20:38Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > In a Publix grocery store: Bisquits We have a restaurant here (closed now) that was called Bisquits and Gravy. Not liking that particular dish I never stopped there, but I did wonder if it was accidental or an attempt to be cute. A church did a major renovation that took months, all the way down to landscaping and paving the parking lot. When it was done, a professionally done sign, _Church of the Resurection_, was installed by the street. A week later when I drove by, the (presumably) pastor was standing there, contemplating how to wedge in the second R. In a rural part of our neighborhood was a mini-farm with a mailbox out front and a sign attached, Braun Eggs. We had an art festival where local artists were displayed and one painting was an impressionist country road with a Braun Eggs sign on a mailbox. The scene wasn’t anything like the one I’d spotted but I knew where the artist’s inspiration came from. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/105 "2019-06-26T13:27:58Z")
From a workers comp injury report: The employee injured the soul of his foot. This amused me way more than it probably should have. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/106 "2019-06-26T14:04:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@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. Uh, I think **Leaffan** had it right. That is, he uses those those words to create or bring about a specific attitude, not modify an attitude that already exists. My peeve is people who don’t even want to consider differences between affect and effect, so they just use “impact” instead. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/107 "2019-07-19T19:42:45Z")
repel (rappel) - from a Washington Post article (that has since been corrected after I commented). ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/108 "2019-07-22T04:04:48Z")
The cafeteria in a place I once worked had a “portable” mushroom dish on the menu once. ---
**Author:** ![Obeseus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbce88/32.png) [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/109 "2019-07-22T06:22:23Z")
A local sportswriter never disappoints me with loads of misspellings. In baseball/softball, he constantly writes ‘forth’ instead of ‘fourth.’ He always leaves out an ‘M’ in ‘teammates.’ I suppose that is correct if the team gets together for tea after the game. His greatest blunder, though, was when he wrote about a girls soccer team “chewing up the clock.” He left out the ‘L’ in ‘clock.’ ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/110 "2019-07-22T10:33:31Z")
In a cover letter for a job application: softwear ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/111 "2019-07-22T12:11:15Z")
Today in Oaxaca, Mexico I saw a Nigth Club. ---
**Author:** ![Emergency911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@Emergency911](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emergency911)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/112 "2019-07-22T16:57:24Z")
On a funeral home sign on Saturday: interment On a resume just this morning: “Eye for detale” ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/113 "2019-07-22T18:07:11Z")
A courthouse I frequent has a sign warning against “traffiking.” ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/114 "2019-07-23T01:56:19Z")
A few years at the 19th hole/restaurant of my Country Club, the language would get colorful at times, and many members would take exception. So the club put out a sign saying “Please refrain from using Fowl Language” We couldn’t brag on the birdies that we made that day, nor order any chicken wings or chicken strips. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/115 "2019-07-23T14:19:31Z")
> [@Emergency911](#): > > On a funeral home sign on Saturday: interment How is that a misspelling? ---
**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:** [July 23, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/116 "2019-07-23T14:26:13Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > How is that a misspelling? The funeral home had scheduled an illegal imprisonment? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Emergency911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@Emergency911](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emergency911)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/117 "2019-07-23T15:03:36Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > How is that a misspelling? My mistake, they had “intermet” ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/118 "2019-07-24T17:58:23Z")
They were doing construction in town. They had one of those warning (orange diamond type) signs that had: “Bussiness Entrance”. I have a picture as proof. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339/119 "2019-07-25T03:39:18Z")
The menu of my local Chinese restaurant advertises “Clack Pepper Chicken.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-misspellings-youve-encountered-in-the-wild/826339.md?page=5)