Random misspellings you've encountered in the wild

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Actually, Rollaboard is a trademarked brand name and roller board has become an accepted generic term.

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.

No refunds. No acceptions.

Fred won a metal for winning the race.

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.

From a workers comp injury report: The employee injured the soul of his foot.

This amused me way more than it probably should have.

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.

repel (rappel) - from a Washington Post article (that has since been corrected after I commented).

The cafeteria in a place I once worked had a “portable” mushroom dish on the menu once.

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.’

In a cover letter for a job application:

softwear

Today in Oaxaca, Mexico I saw a Nigth Club.

On a funeral home sign on Saturday: interment
On a resume just this morning: “Eye for detale”

A courthouse I frequent has a sign warning against “traffiking.”

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.

How is that a misspelling?

The funeral home had scheduled an illegal imprisonment? :wink:

My mistake, they had “intermet”

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.

The menu of my local Chinese restaurant advertises “Clack Pepper Chicken.”