# Spell check fail **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304 "2015-05-18T15:10:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/21 "2015-05-20T02:45:40Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > My favourite misplaced punctuation is a sign that said: > “Milk” $3.49 > [@gigi](#): > > Turkeys > “Fresh” or Frozen > > It scares me. There’s a chain of lube shops here, the motto of which is The world’s “best” oil change. Run away! Run away! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/22 "2015-05-20T03:55:11Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > The parking garage at my wife’s workplace has a bunch of parking spots that are “Strictly Reserved”. But upon closer inspection, the signs originally said “Strickly Reserved” and someone had to print up a bunch of stickers to cover up the boo-boo. > > My favourite misplaced punctuation is a sign that said: > “Milk” $3.49 > > There’s something about putting quotes around the word “milk” that just makes it sound so unwholesome… I have a photo of the milkshake menu at a Johnny Rockets restaurant near me. One is a Dark Chocolate “Made With” Ghirardelli Chocolate. I haven’t quite figured out why - does that mean that “made with” is not well defined, and could mean anything from “it’s pure Ghirardelli” to “There’s a Ghirardelli bar somewhere in the store” depending on the cook’s whim of the day? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/23 "2015-05-20T04:09:16Z")
I was stopped at a bank’s drive-up window to make a deposit, and a printed sign in the window admonished that customers at the drive-up windows were limited to two “withdrawls” from their accounts. I looked over at the next station and the same printed sign was up with the same horrible misspelling. I told the teller that although the misspelling was common, I found it inexcusable at a bank. To their credit (har!), they changed it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/24 "2015-05-20T18:23:52Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I told the teller that although the misspelling was common, I found it inexcusable at a bank. I hope you said it like, ‘Way-ull… Ah reckon ah unnerstan’ what ya mean, but yeh jes’ maght want t’ check yer spellin’, ma’am.’ ---
**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:** [May 20, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/25 "2015-05-20T22:27:32Z")
I wish I had taken a photo of the business (I forget what it was now) that for at least six months had a banner hanging on out front proclaiming their “GRAN OPPENING”. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/26 "2015-05-20T23:57:14Z")
Today I noticed that our computer system pops up a message when you try to change the permissions on a directory, asking you to provide a rational for the change in permissions. A rational what? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/27 "2015-05-21T02:16:44Z")
[Actually, I think that’s the way they pronounce it down there.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11143238_10153221563876427_3943856197349696646_n.jpg?oh=500cded347ea302b224efb230ec8c921&oe=55CFDBBC& __gda__ =1443224501_5f8988ca3563fbfe588d4f5129850b09) (I guess I’ll find out Friday.) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/28 "2015-05-21T02:33:51Z")
My supervisor, as well as his supervisor, sent out several emails referencing our “cubicals”. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/29 "2015-05-21T12:33:55Z")
I saw a sign outside a Chinese restaurant in Cork, Ireland that read “Lunch buffet available diary”. I couldn’t figure it out until I read it aloud and ‘diary’ became ‘daily’ with a Chinese accent. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/30 "2015-05-22T18:47:47Z")
There’s a costume shop that also sells party supplies by me. For over a year they’ve had a huge banner out front advertising that they have “ELSA PARTY’S” for sale. And the White Castle on the same road had a sign until fairly recently advertising their “Carve Cases”. ---
**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 22, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/31 "2015-05-22T18:57:04Z")
> [@kferr](#): > > I saw a sign outside a Chinese restaurant in Cork, Ireland that read “Lunch buffet available diary”. I couldn’t figure it out until I read it aloud and ‘diary’ became ‘daily’ with a Chinese accent. You mean dairy, not diary, right? > [@batsto](#): > > There’s a costume shop that also sells party supplies by me. For over a year they’ve had a huge banner out front advertising that they have “ELSA PARTY’S” for sale. > > And the White Castle on the same road had a sign until fairly recently advertising their “Carve Cases”. I have no idea what either of these is supposed to be in the first place. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/32 "2015-05-22T19:12:29Z")
The was a building for rent downtown in the town where I went to high school; someone was “excepting applications” for tenancy. Spellcheck wouldn’t have helped that, though. Once, someone in my uncle’s department posted an ad for WordPerfect IBM’s old word processing program that was state-of-the-art before Microsoft Office came out. The ad wasn’t a terrific example, though. For one thing, it boasted that the “siftware” allowed you to move whole “paragarphs.” ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/33 "2015-05-22T19:15:28Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > You mean dairy, not diary, right? > > I have no idea what either of these is supposed to be in the first place. 😕 Elsa is, I believe, the princess from the Disney movie ‘Frozen’. So the sign should probably say “Elsa Parties”–they’re advertising the fact that if you want an Elsa themed party, you should come there for supplies. White Castle sells a box of hamburgers they advertise as the “Crave Case”, apparently because they think people ‘crave’ their hamburgers. ---
**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 22, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/34 "2015-05-22T19:17:30Z")
> [@batsto](#): > > Elsa is, I believe, the princess from the Disney movie ‘Frozen’. So the sign should probably say “Elsa Parties”–they’re advertising the fact that if you want an Elsa themed party, you should come there for supplies. > > White Castle sells a box of hamburgers they advertise as the “Crave Case”, apparently because they think people ‘crave’ their hamburgers. Thank you. ETA: A sign I saw on a store front: “Smile your on camera.” ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/35 "2015-05-22T19:20:28Z")
a house on my street was having a yard sale two weeks ago, but his hand written sign read “YALE SALE” instead. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/36 "2015-05-22T19:25:39Z")
There’s quite a few times I’ve almost misspelled, “Your shirts are ready for pick-up” as, “Your shits are ready for pick-up” in an email. I’m of the mind programs like word and outlook should have a nsfw spellcheck because one of these days I’m not going to catch that and neither will spellcheck. In that same vein, my high school yearbook had a page where buried in a paragraph of text about how we like our school despite any flaws - “and gum on the seats” either by mistake or by prank had the “g” replaced with a “c” and made it all the way to print. Because hey, cum is a word too! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/37 "2015-05-22T19:44:02Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > The was a building for rent downtown in the town where I went to high school; someone was “excepting applications” for tenancy. Spellcheck wouldn’t have helped that, though. …" This isn’t out in public public, but it is exposed to many thousands of employees. The PTB recently changed the style of incremental changes to our e-manuals. Each has a cover page that’s collated up front by the table of contents in addition to the actual changed pages collated at the appropriate place in the body. The cover page includes a helpful list of “Effected Pages”. I sent PTB a polite email suggesting they’d confused “effected” with “affected”. No change so far, and we’re up to quite a few published but illiterate changes. Idjits. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304/38 "2015-05-22T19:46:19Z")
> [@Macca26](#): > > There’s quite a few times I’ve almost misspelled, “Your shirts are ready for pick-up” as, “Your shits are ready for pick-up” in an email. I’m of the mind programs like word and outlook should have a nsfw spellcheck because one of these days I’m not going to catch that and neither will spellcheck. In that same vein, my high school yearbook had a page where buried in a paragraph of text about how we like our school despite any flaws - “and gum on the seats” either by mistake or by prank had the “g” replaced with a “c” and made it all the way to print. Because hey, cum is a word too! Yeah, spell-check needs an anti-spellcheck feature where you can mark a word as “Always flag as wrong and don’t allow [ignore] or worse yet [add to dictionary]”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spell-check-fail/720304.md?page=1)