Grate spelling mistakes of our time

[Bill Wright]

[Brian Gaff]

Funnily enough, some years ago the classic mistake was made on a circular to council workers about the library opening hours. Unfortunately it apparently said at the top. Note new Pubic Library opening hours from April.

Brian

[Tim Streater]

[Gordon Henderson]

[Paul D Smith]

The local rag printed a proud boast from our local council "No cuts to pubic services". I haven't found out precisely what services they offer yet :-).

Paul DS.

[Chris Hogg]

Sadly, never a truer word spoken in jest!

[Bob Martin]

My favourite was the caption to a photo in the East Kent Gazette of a soon-to-be married young woman : "Miss Smith and her finance".

[Jim K]

mine from a chinese takeaway menu

"Roast Dick with Pineapple"

I still have it somewhere (the menu....)

Jim K

[charles]

on a BBC Staff "restaurant" was the offer of "Spotted Richard"

[Nightjar]

One of the NHS Trusts did the same, showing a total misunderstanding of the origins of the name as probably being a corruption of spotted dog or, possibly, spotted dough.

Colin Bignell

[Jim K]

hopefully no-one wanted thirds...

Jim K

[Owain]

magazine. And Poundstretcher has "eletronic" musical keyboards on sale.

Owain

[jgh]

It teaches you have to steal Manhatten from the Indians?

JGH

[Nightjar]

You use the broaches to enlarge the holes in the beads.

Colin Bignell

[Owain]

Ah, you breach the beads with a broach, but use a brooch to prevent a breach in your breeches.

Owain

[Huge]

With the steady decline in education standards and increasing reliance on speel-chuckers, is it any wonder? Although that doesn't account for "eletronic".

[Huge]

^^^^^^^^^

Is that irony?

[Tim Watts]

I don't see anyone trying to justify those as "evolving language"!

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , Huge writes

It's the misuse of you/your/you're that's getting to me. And it's getting worse.

[F]

Or, 'I could of...'.