# What was the most badly spelled word on the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162 "2002-12-21T02:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/1 "2002-12-21T02:59:53Z")
Not so much rules as polite requests… 1. Preferably a long word. 2. It has to at least appear to have been accidental. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/2 "2002-12-21T03:02:43Z")
rediculous No, I’m not commenting on your thread. I hate it when people use rediculous in place of ridiculous. It must be deliberate, no one is that stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/3 "2002-12-21T03:03:04Z")
Or as an (annoyingly post-submit-press) after-thought - Most **amusingly** misspelled word. Same polite requests apply. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/4 "2002-12-21T03:09:55Z")
It just hit me like a bus! - This thread would have yielded far ‘better’ misspellings if it were refering to usenet posts. some of the spelling on there is amazingly bad - and worse - it’s **consistently** bad! (and I _almost_ pressed submit without seeing that I spelled that last word ‘vad’) ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/5 "2002-12-21T03:10:37Z")
Do “gotcha ya” or “fucko off” apply? I was amused, anyway. I think most of the amusement came more from the people reacting to these than the mispellings themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/6 "2002-12-21T03:56:08Z")
I caught one in the very next thread I read after checking this one. > [@](#): > > I know as a smoker, I am sometimes offended by the things said about smokers on the bored. I just wonder if you say these things to you friends who smoke? (‘bored’ was mean to be board. Or was it? Maybe it was deliberate) “fucko off” amuses me, as I mentioned in the ‘inadvertant funnies’ thread. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/7 "2002-12-21T04:35:12Z")
There’s a thread in CCC right now in which someone spelled illustration as illitration. ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/8 "2002-12-21T05:53:34Z")
I believe Wildest Bill’s mosquito thread has enough problems in the subject alone to win this contest many times over. ---
**Author:** ![Raini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@Raini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raini)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/9 "2002-12-21T06:23:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > > (‘bored’ was mean to be board. Or was it? Maybe it was deliberate) > > \*\* hmmm…was ‘mean to be’? how about ‘meant to be’!!! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/10 "2002-12-21T07:26:17Z")
As an ex-English teacher who has a real problem with spelling, how can I do a spell check on this board? Do I have to write it all in Word and then paste, or is there a simpler way? ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/11 "2002-12-21T07:52:21Z")
Yep, cut and paste. When I start getting on a serious posting kick I just leave word open to speed things up. It’s not open right now so if there are any egregious spelling errors in this post blame it on that. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/12 "2002-12-21T08:24:06Z")
it’s not long, but… OG! Og Smash! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/13 "2002-12-21T18:26:00Z")
License. It’s used all the time in traffic ticket threads and everybody gets it wrong. License, people. License. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/14 "2002-12-21T18:36:57Z")
According to [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com), “licence” is a valid variant (mainly British-used) of “license”. I probably use it, because when trying to remember “practice/practise” I remember “advise/advice” for verb/noun. “Advis/ce” is an easier one to remember because the two words actually sound different, unlike practis/ce and licens/ce. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/15 "2002-12-21T19:22:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Netbrian \* > \*\*I believe Wildest Bill’s mosquito thread has enough problems in the subject alone to win this contest many times over. \*\* That was I immediately thought of. To those who did not have the pleasure of knowing Wildest Bill before he was banned, this subject line says it all: “Would Are Eco Sytem be Ok If We Extincted Mosquitos?” ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/16 "2002-12-21T19:29:55Z")
Defenitely. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/17 "2002-12-21T20:40:18Z")
Forget newsnet. Customer e-mails are barely English at my place of work > [@](#): > > satter day evnig (admittedly - a lot of them (maybe 20%) are from non-english speaking countries ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/18 "2002-12-21T22:14:23Z")
Do apostrophe’s on plural word’s count? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/19 "2002-12-21T22:47:27Z")
Naw, that’s a punctuation error, not a spelling error. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162/20 "2002-12-22T02:30:59Z")
Lose, all too frequently spelled “loose”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-badly-spelled-word-on-the-sdmb/144162.md?page=2)