Spelling Failures That Really Missed The Mark

Eric Lund

May 25, 2022 3:00 PM EDT

Spelling is a hard thing to do. There are just so many goddamn words to remember, and all of them are spelled differently. If there were like, 250 words, then we might have better odds. Sure, sentences might end up looking like something out of 1984, but that's double plus good by us. We gotta get rid of all this poetry and junk. No more verbs. See how things look then. Get rid of some nouns. All of a sudden the sentence "Let's go get some coffee" becomes "we the hot brown now." Perfect. Simple. Easy to remember. Sure, it would tank the collective human spirit and disable our ability to articulate anything of substantive meaning, but at least people wouldn't mistakenly sound so dumb all the time. We'd sound stupid on purpose. It's not better, but it's a change.

For more times people mangled the English language, here are some spelling failures that really shift the bed.