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writers wot spell fings wrong

April 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

It’s true, I’m the first person to point out your typo or your grammatical error and I even belong to a Facebook Group called ”If You Can’t Differentiate Between “Your” and “You’re” You Deserve To Die” but the sad truth is I am a pedantic hypocrite.  

Here are some words I still spell wrong: eppitamy, photoes, definately, sangyistan, geneaology, embarassed, beaurocracy, bourgois, similiar, viscious, orginally, humourous

Here are some misspellings from famous poets:

Emily Dickinson: extasy extatic boquet Febuary nescessity nescessary unannointed teazing bretheren independant boddice shily witheld apostrophes: does’nt did’nt it’s solemn abbeys it’s dripping feet
 
Ezra Pound: tarrif diarhoa damd supercedes indespensible sustinence devines (vb) assylum weird assininities
apostrophes: cant don’t isnt wouldn’t thats wont
 
William Wordsworth: eughtrees questined craggs vullgar untill lillies pennyless impressd fellt receved anixious plungd th (the) whith (with) strage (strange) apostrophes: your’s
 
John Milton: persues persuers cheife cheifly scituation raign (reign) beleive woomb Egipt eys (eyes) Iland waight apostrophes: arm’s (l.94
 
Virginia Woolf: pannelled, busyness, naiv.Apostrophes: cant, shant, wont, dont, wouldnt, isnt that’s, you’re a woman of genius, I feel sure your worse, Prima Donna’s, a childshighchair, a donkeys head, fathers state, the Fabians discourse
 
Keats:  furuits sweeness hazle wam (from Ode to Autumn)

Thanks Vivian Cook

Tags: bad spellers · poetry

4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 TimbuktuParadox // Apr 25, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Better to have a good read with spelling errors than a perfect manuscript that’s boring. Not being able to spell has never caused me any trouble :roll:

  • 2 squib // Apr 25, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    Or better still, a good read with no spelling errors?

  • 3 TimbuktuParadox // Apr 25, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    How anal to look for purrfection

  • 4 TimbuktuParadox // Apr 25, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    love love love, love love love, love love love is all you need :oops:

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