Errant Spelling
Misspelled words bug me.
Not necessarily the ones in blog posts, emails, or my son's science journal. I understand if you sometimes misspell calender, seperate, or ocasional in your writings.
No, what really bothers me are the misspellings in professionally made signs and products. A few nights ago we watched the 1973 musical Tom Sawyer, starring Johnny Whitaker and Jodie Foster, on DVD. The disc's main menu page featured the clearly misspelled word Tralier instead of the correct Trailer.
If you think about the sheer number of people who had to see and approve this 2005 DVD release, it's quite startling that so many of them could've missed it. The disc was released by MGM, not some one-man company turning out old movies on the cheap.
Not far from our house there's a street called Prairie Avenue. But the street sign at one intersection reads Praire. Again, how many people did it take to manufacture, approve, ship, and install this sign, with not one of them making note of how stupid they'd all look to the general public?
The worst is when the misspelling changes the meaning of the word. I will never again eat at that restaurant that sells cheesebugers. Why risk it?
Not necessarily the ones in blog posts, emails, or my son's science journal. I understand if you sometimes misspell calender, seperate, or ocasional in your writings.
No, what really bothers me are the misspellings in professionally made signs and products. A few nights ago we watched the 1973 musical Tom Sawyer, starring Johnny Whitaker and Jodie Foster, on DVD. The disc's main menu page featured the clearly misspelled word Tralier instead of the correct Trailer.
If you think about the sheer number of people who had to see and approve this 2005 DVD release, it's quite startling that so many of them could've missed it. The disc was released by MGM, not some one-man company turning out old movies on the cheap.
Not far from our house there's a street called Prairie Avenue. But the street sign at one intersection reads Praire. Again, how many people did it take to manufacture, approve, ship, and install this sign, with not one of them making note of how stupid they'd all look to the general public?
The worst is when the misspelling changes the meaning of the word. I will never again eat at that restaurant that sells cheesebugers. Why risk it?
Permalink posted by Idaho Dad at 12:10 AM
13 Comments:
I'd stay away from the 'bugers too.
The Los Angeles Times had a column dedicated to misspellings and incorrect meanings on signs, menus, etc. It often was hilarious.
I am so with you. It bugs me in published books, on television commercials, and on business signs too.
I'll second and third that. It seems typos, misspellings and grammatical errors are growing by the day...
I whole-heartedly agree. I don't know if it is my superiority complex or what, but I just can't understand why people can put up signs on reader boards and advertise something with the incorrect spellings or diction. The worst for me are the use of incorrect words like "there" instead of "their," or "to" instead of "too." I also want to advertise on all reader boards that "a lot" is always two words.
I better go, I am a little paranoid that I am going to misspell something soon.
Also one of my biggest pet peeves. I'm glad to know there are others out there who still appreciate correct spelling.
I like speeling gooder than yuo, too.
I am so on board with this pet peeve. By the same token, I hate it when professional signs mix up the plural and possessive forms. Don't just be throwing those apostrophes around wherever you feel like it, people!
How about the elementary school teacher that told her class that the nice docent (WWII vet) would tell them about World War Eleven as they toured a vintage airplane museum ;)
Reminds me of the course I took at the U of Idaho, "Mass communication and public opinion." Sure enough, I came upon a paragraph where the "L" was left out of "Public". Oops!
I am such a perfectionist when it comes to spelling, and I'm like you, in professional settings the spelling should be perfect. That's why I gave up the Press many years ago, it was rampant with many words that were incorectly spelled. The Stickman
Of course in a setting like this, what do I go and do, incorrectly spell incorectly. Sorry
I refuse to visit businesses that use the cute spelling of words in their signs and names. I will not go to the "Quik Mart" or the "Golden Korral." It makes me laugh that 10-15 years ago someone thought it was a good idea to name a chain of gas stations here in the Midwest as the "Cum and Go." I still see them in some rural areas. Haha. See, you mess around with proper spelling and you end up owning a business with a perverted name. Serves you right.
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