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







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
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
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