A while back, someone tried to scrawl 'White power' on my wall. I think I would have been more offended/shocked, if I knew what 'Wihte power' was.

This troper has a good chuckle thinking about how if people's common typos were taken literally, what they would mean in the real world. When "definitely" becomes "defiantly", you are '''definitely''' one bad mamma jamma!

This trooper read the title as "Rogue Angels of Satan," as in I thought it was correct util it was pointed out. Thats dyslexia for you. It causes me to do this trope myself on occasion.

This troper thought so too, and she is by no means dyslexic. It might have something to do with English being my fifth language, but...

Dear Microsoft Word, I live in Anosizato, not in "Anorexic", thanks. Though, when you look at some of the inhabitants... Hmmm.

I once had Word try to correct "This is all your fault!" to "This is your entire fault!" You see this? This is all the fault you have. You don't have any more fault.

I've seen "secret" misspelled as "sekrik". That same person gives us "melns dasae wals agen". Any ideas on what that means, anyone?

It means they need glasses.

Sounds more like dyslexia than anything.

Maybe it's "melons disease walls again"?

This troper has seen "psychic" misspelled as "physic" more times than he would like... including in a chat room listing where one of the topics was "Physic Readings". (I really should've gone in there and started talking about Einstein...)

@/{{Winter}}: For those who enjoy a touch of the archaic, a discussion of medicine would be perfectly appropriate.

My cousin made the same mistake with his screen name when someone told him the incorrect spelling for "psycho". My nickname for him now is pronounced "fizz-co".

This troper gets highly annoyed when people misspell "inconvenience" as "inconvience." How do you lose an entire syllable?

I don't know how, but it happens. I've written blogs about ''Scribblenauts'' where I somehow end up calling it "Scribblauts".

I've seen the "Starite" referred to as a "Startie" several times.

How? Because it's more convient to write "inconvient," duh!

In this troper's hometown, there's a psychic who had a lovely professionally-made backlit sign done up for her business. It says PYSCHIC. Surely she should have been able to tell in advance that the signmakers would screw up...

Wait a minute...that says 'piss-chick'! Maybe she isn'tr in the business you thought she was...

Mayber sher reallyr isn'tr, butr sher hadr ar smallr visionr problem

Psy-chic? Looks like it might be an intentional (if lame) pun.

I've seen a "PCYCHIC" in my hometown. Maybe this isn't all too uncommon a problem.

This troper's eighth grade English teacher, while off on a tangent during class, mentioned a bit of graffiti he saw that read "WORSHIP SATIN". It ''is'' a beautiful fabric, and it makes wonderful clothing, but worship seems a bit extreme...

This troper has been attributed with 'psychopathic' powers by his brother.

So you have the power of torturing people to death?

No, that would mean he has the power of the Buddha appearing to him in a box of cereal, and telling him to kill stuff, or something else that's insane.

No, that would be psychotic powers. ''Psychopathic'' powers would involve a lack of concern for the feelings and inherent worth of others (antisocial personality disorder).

So he'd be a Contractor?

I was once in a high school literature class, when we were talking about a paper we (the students in the class) had written. We were talking about how the spellchecker ''usually'' works. I mentioned that the grammar checker is always telling me to change something, even though it almost always seems better as it was when I typed it, rather than as the computer thinks its supposed to be. Someone commented something along the lines of "the spellcheck is sober, the grammarcheck is drunk".

This troper remembers back in 8th Grade when there was an assignment (which unfortunately we never got to do) which heavily involved the use of this trope. Basically you had to write a report full of both spelling and grammatical errors, such as commas where they don't belong and heavily relying on the spell check to get synonyms for whatever words you were typing. For example: "Look at all of those guys!" became, "Lock ate all of them guise!".

This troper, a philosophy student, has fought to get her spell-check to recognise "quale" and "noumena".

This troper was struck by a fit of the giggles when she read a story that involved "exercising demons". The phrase conjured up images of a demonic Richard Simmons.

My high school's bathroom walls informed me that someone wanted order "Nigers go home!" and that he felt "All Nigers should hang." I agree. I hate Malis and Algerias as well.

This troper is constantly amazed, and more than a little annoyed, at how many people think "loose" means the opposite of "win", or that "lose" means the opposite of "tight". He is also of the opinion that most school superintendents should be fired for cause.

Hnnng. I agree - it makes this troper want to reach for the [=Tipp-Ex/White-Out=]. Another up-and-coming candidate, repeatedly used on this very wiki, is mixing up "who's" and "whose". ''They do not mean the same thing''.

This troper is fairly sure that she sees "loose" used as "lose" more often than she sees it used correctly.

God, this troper too. She's seen it on official letters from work, in fanfiction, in PROFESSIONAL fic... it's really REALLY grinding on her nerves.

A flyer posted in the computer lab at my school banned students from visiting sites like fantastyfootball.com. I was angry; I enjoyed the recipes there.

Whoever's responsible for printing the Flyers at this Troper's college has a knack for misspelling things. Luau coming up? Greet everyone with a big friendly "Ahola"! We're playing against Syracuse! Squeze those Oranges! It's so bad we've actually got a "wall of fail" chronicling all these.

Do I ''want'' to know how you squeze an orange?

One of this troper's favourite ways of handling the "your/you're" problem comes from 4chan of all places, which provided a jpeg file that politely explained the difference, and terminated with the immortal wisdom "I humbly request that you people learn this on the grounds that '''''IT IS NOT THAT F#CKING HARD'''''.

Link plx.

Here you go.

This troper is frequently irritated by people who spell ''per se'' as ''per say'' (and even more by people who outright misuse the phrase), and also 'all intensive purposes,' which is just gibberish.

This troper's stepfather used to be under the impression that "per se" was "for say" which means something like "for example". Her brother also always talks about being "unconscience" no matter how often she tries to correct him.

In Hong Kong there is a chain of grocery stores called "Wellcome", and this troper always wondered if the spelling was a mistake, and if not, why they chose to spell it that way.

Perhaps they offer a special form of customer appreciation program...

"Its" and "It's" mean two different things, and I can make insults whistle as they fly over your head, so you'd better '''learn to write correctly.''' Also whose and who's, as mentioned above, and your, you're, and yore. In fact, everyone should get their (as opposed to there or they're) homophones right!

This troper only just noticed that his local corner store claims not to be a convenience store, but a "convenient store". It's a common mistake, and one that arguably even sort of makes sense, but he was kind of surprised to see it on the sign for an actual business.

This troper had Microsoft Word trying to tell him his essay about Cleopatra was actually about Clip Art.

This seems as good an excuse as ever for this troper to share her favourite FanFic typo ever made. It's from a ''MetalGearSolid'' 2 fic (first person point of view is Raiden's) which doesn't appear to exist any more, likely because of this single errant 'n' -- #QUOTE# I try to get up. As if paralyzed, I can't. #QUOTE# Blood continues to pour from the cunt on my head, showing no sing of clotting. I begin to feel dizzy. Snake notices that I'm not following all this.

Good lord, someone get that man a tampon!

...cunt on his head as opposed to what?

This troper has seen 7 (some lazy bugger who couldn't be bothered typing "Seven," as in Seven of Nine, in full) as 8. A friend he showed it to: "How the hell do you misspell a digit?"

In the same vein, a fanfic called "The Return of Sephiroth" (MSTed here) has a MarySue named Red IV. The author often typoes it as Red VI.

This troper submitted a piece of GCSE coursework in which she'd written "[He] peed into the window" instead of "[He] peered into the window"... oops.

Not exactly an example, but a similar thing (involving a misread word, not an actual misspelling) happened when I encountered the TARDIS on FurryMUCK. ItMakesSenseInContext.

This troper had a friend almost submit a classical studies paper where "ancient sauces tell us" all about Alexander the Great.

Well of course. The sauces know everything. Historical documents still need to ketchup. Frankly, I would relish a textbook that used knowledge from the ancient sauces.

This troper knows of a recent FukuFic which is inventive, well-plotted, attentive to proper characterization, and is in many ways outstanding... but which is utterly ridden with this trope. Its most outrageous example would be Tatewaki Kuno bellowing "HOLD, FOWL SORCEROUS!"

OK, we have {{Fanfic}} material: Ranma falls into "Spring of Drowned Magic Chicken."

To quote George Herriman: A Fowl Conspiwussy? Es it pussible?

Two words: Evil Chicken

Fear with the great fear, this demonic chicken now has a twitter.

This troper's favorite spellcheck mistake: "breeches of the law."

For that matter, SciFi is riddled with "hull breeches."

It's very good that all those starships are wearing pants.

Howard Taylor will have you know that in some universes starships remove their pants at relativistic speeds.

This troper fondly remembers a ''{{Hellsing}}'' fanfic mentioning the "white-hared Integra" and the "orange-hared Seras". Well, not so much the fanfic itself as the piece of fanart it spawned, which featured said characters with animals similar to rabbits hanging around their necks.

And conversely...let's not forget "hair-brained." You're trying to imply that a plan is as crazy as a jackrabbit in spring, ''not'' that it was thought up by someone with fuzzballs in their skull. (Although the latter might ''not'' be too inaccurate...)

This troper has seen that one both ways, both with explanations. At this point both are likely valid.

Let us not forget the academic world: this troper has heard countless stories of essays being submitted about "the Geeks vs. the Normans."

I'm curious to hear who won that battle.

This troper remembers encountering a fanfic description claiming the story was about a character's "weeding night." (Sounds like the wrong kind of pollination's been going on.)

Of course, the Simpsons did this on purpose. "A wedding is described as the process of pulling weeds from one's garden."

This troper recently posted a fic in which "the ship constantly tool wild turns".

This troper is getting extremely tired of seeing "discrete" (in distinct pieces) for "discreet" (careful, hush-hush) and "diffused" (scattered) for "defused" (prevented disaster). But they continually appear in literature these days, let alone fanfic. On the other hand, he's discovered that "whinging" is not a misspelling.

Especially as diffusing a bomb would be a significant mistake.

Depending on the bomb, diffusing might also have the effect of defusing. Do consult an appropriate reference work before attempting this solution, of course!

Wouldn't a bomb diffuse itself when it, you know, exploded?

Just let it slide. I, for one, have just had my world changed, having until now not only ''not'' known that "discreet" is actually a word and not a misspelling, but also that ''that'' is the correct spelling of what I until now believed to be the ''only'' definition of "discrete". And I'm a fair wonk about these types of things myself. Come to think of it, this clears up quite a bit as to the nature of some of the college level math courses I'm taking...

This troper is incredibly glad she has always known the difference, because in a song she wrote a few years back, the main character sings "I'll always be discreet!" Imagine the problem it would have caused if the character claimed she would always be "discrete"....

This troper's Discrete Mathematics professor actually mentioned this distinction the very first day of class.

This troper remembers reading a now-gone VampireHunterD and StarTrekTheNextGeneration crossover where the MarySue main character ended up bedding D. The thing that kept this troper reading was the fact that all the characters from D's 'planet' carried swards. On the Enterprise. They even had a swardfight, and the BigBad was run through. With a sward.

This troper's college newspaper ran an article where a "fire distinguisher" was mentioned. You know, the thing one can use to ''ex''tinguish fires...

Obviously, they were talking about this.

I see your Imageshack pic and raise you {{Engrish}}: a fire distinguisher.

This troper once saw a school essay in which the author explained that you couldn't be convicted of a crime you committed many years ago "because of the statue of libertations".

Truth In Legalese: Shenandoah County of Virginia would like to let you know that unauthorized duplication of their death certificates is forbidden by ''statue''. In the same vein, this troper’s employer has an internal program that, in certain screens, purports to show you a "cient view".

This troper is frequently on the floor laughing when the narrator of a badfic typos "pops" as "poops"... as in, "out poops Sailor Mercury".

Thanks so much for reminding me of the spellcheck-detonator that is a Dr. Thinker fanfic. Now if only I could ever figure out what "Gyra famous on Amy" meant...

DrThinker: "Gyra focus on Amy." Happy now?

Or "out poops a blue penguin", if you're writing a transcript for the Backyardigans opening.

In this troper's middle school, one fellow student, writing a history paper on the school's computers, had the word processor's spellchecker render "Ottoman Turks" as "Ottoman Turkeys." One must wonder if they outlawed Thanksgiving.

This troper was reading some lovely ''LesMiserables'' smut the other day. Imagine her surprise upon discovering that Javert had concealed "the large bugle" in his pants...

Oh, that Javert. Always tooting his own horn, isn't he?

If he can, I'd pay for pictures...

Gut buster. This Troper's brother have looked up "akoostick" guitar labels on youtube.

The problem with spellcheckers: They don't stop you from sending out an email signed "Boob".

... or, as one co-worker did, sent an email asking people to try to keep the whorehouse clean. He meant warehouse. And it was a company-wide email.

This Troper just applied to a law firm for an office assistant job, only to receive a form requesting that I indicate some statistical facts about myself, including whether I am openly GLBT. The form defines this as "someone who publicly indentifies themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender." The tab key seems an odd way of indicating solidarity, but okay...

This troper has fond memories of finding an online poll asking the question "who's your favorite raper?" (it was clear from the context that they of course meant ''rapper''). Google reveals this is apparently a pretty common one, yielding results like "Eminem is the best raper ever".

Well, someone who makes art is an artist, so that makes someone who makes rap...

A new shop opened near this troper's university in Manchester with a banner proudly proclaiming in foot-hight letters "THIS SHOP IS FOR UNIVERISITY STUDENTS". It went bust within a semester.

This troper's family now regularly refers to drama-filled things--verbally--as "exiting". (On purpose, thankfully.)

This troper recently sent a card to his boyfriend in the mail that got returned (long story), so I had to send it out again. While talking with my boyfriend online, I told him, "So, I resent your card the other day." He was confused for a moment before he realized my mistake. Hyphens are your friend.

Except resent doesn't actually have a hyphen in it, as it's the past tense of resend, which also does not have a hyphen.

"Hyphens are an aid to understanding and not an ornament" (Churchill; I'm quoting from memory so the wording may not be exact.) If, as in this case, it helps, stick one in. There's no rule saying you can't.

This Troper's favorite typo has to be "i like both alice cooper and groove coverages ''virgins'' of the song" (completely ignoring the rest of the grammar blunders in the sentence.)

This troper's company uses Lotus Notes. Its spell checker will replace misspellings of "inconvenience" with "incontinence". This leads to several instances a year of group e-mails that "apologize for the incontinence."

This troper's workplace, a speech therapy service, has recently started using a transcription service based overseas. As a result, letters keep arriving that should talk about "tone and symmetry" or "harshness and breathiness", but instead talk about "tomb and cemetery" and "harshness and brattiness."

This Troper has seen "camoflage combat boobs" in their natural habitat.

This Troper has, in various terrible fanfic summaries, seen the following: "rapped" instead of "raped," every possible screw up of "its" and "your," "Satan" spelled as "Stain," and in one hysterical flame-rant, "warming."

Looking at weepingcock for the first time, this troper found an apparently infamous Zelda fic that has a few particularly narmy cases of this. There's passages where the main character and Link spend all night "'''for filing''' each other's hot desires and fantasies", and "painting" is consistently used instead of "panting" (as in "we fell to the ground painting"), but the most amusing one may be in the introduction, where the author states that no one has the right to be offended by the work, since when they started reading it they "knew from '''the gecko''' what it contained".

All the money you could be saving on your car insurance?

This Troper has seen "Horace" used where Horus is most definitely intended. It gives a very different meaning to the All-Seeing Eye when the guy behind it is a Roman poet (who was very mortal, was very acutely aware of this before he passed, and is very dead) instead of an Egyptian deity who might actually have an interest in keeping tabs on us all....

While chatting with someone online, this troper tried to say that he had been watching movies on HBO. What somehow came out was "...watching movies on ''hobo''".

I don't think it counts, but usually, when writing in MS Word, This troper writes the same as they write in the internet or in MSN. They were once writing a bit of a fanfiction, with weird names, stretched words, and all. The spellchecker tried to correct "staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare" with {{Antidisestablishmentarianism}}. Also, in a completely unrelated comment, I have a friend who spelled "Portfolio" as... "Pornlio". I find it hard to believe that they weren't actually ''trying'' to make a pun or something...

This troper was at work the other day mixing paint for a customer, and had to spend several minutes explaining that no, we are not trying to sell him paint with a Satan finish.

This troper's sister has a weird habit of typing the most ridiculous typos, like writing "snog" or "songo" instead of song, or, this Troper's personal favorite, "getting hit between the nose".

This troper actually ''has'' a piece of music for her school band that has the word "Songo" on it. We decided that it's a blend on "Song" and "Tango".

Also, while this troper was trying to type the words "Loracarol", inside it came out as Kiracarol. Hm....

A new favorite of mine is confusing "lion" and "loin". As in pork lion, or ''The Loin King'' (and ''Secondhand Loins'' for that matter).

A local craft supplies store had a sale on "Loin Brand" Yarn. An employee must've noticed the mistake, because some of the computer-printed signs were hand-corrected to say "Lion Brand" instead.

I've had to fix so many spelling mistakes for my friends that it's practically a RunningGag now.

This troper knows a girl who pronounces "crutches" (as in what a person with a broken leg walks on) as "crunches" (as in how you exercise your abs).

This troper was once looking for tips on how to keep Lu Bu from defecting away from your side in ''DynastyWarriors 6: Empires''. She stumbled upon a message board in which various players were lamenting the fact that Lu Bu had '''defecated''' on them. In fairness, that's not too far off from what Lu Bu is metaphorically capable of doing to you at Hu Lao Gate, but still...

A bit of an inversion. My username in many online FPSs, due to my preference for ricochets and indirect bombarment where possible, is "Angle of Death." Only three people have failed to call me "Angel" at first.

Mock trials are a gold mine for these. "Testesmoney" is, thus far, the crowning achievement.

This troper's sister's cell phone will often bizarrely correct random words while texting (e.g. "I rode all the old sheep I rode as a kid" when talking about Disney World). The crown jewel, however, has to be "I'm eating another sophomore," when talking about her new boyfriend (It should have said "dating," in case you couldn't guess).

Autocomplete does that. This troper had a friend whose phone would inexplicably autocorrect "keys" to "jews." Much Godwin was invoked, as you can imagine.

There's a whole site dedicated to how the iPhone tends to do this.

More likely predictive text than a correction per se. Those words are homographs on a telephone keypad.

The Urban Dictionary has a word for this: "autoincorrect".

In this troper's Honors Biology class, we were reviewing our graded test papers. One of the questions was about the functions of skin. One person in our class was thinking of the word 'sensation', but somehow ended up with 'seduction'. What was funnier was she didn't know what the word she wrote down meant.

So the the teacher accept that answer? I mean it's not ''wrong''.

I once accidentally typed the word "shit" instead of "shirt". Which doesn't seem funny at all until you take into account that when I did this, I posted it on a children's website. One that didn't let you edit your posts. Let us hope that the children who frequented the site couldn't read very well.

If it makes you feel any better, I did the same thing but on Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 for a T-shirt Stand.

This troper remembers seeing "Chicken Muggets" listed on the menu of a local restaurant when they first opened (It's since been fixed, if you're wondering)

This troper and her best friend have a running gag about a ghost named Jeffery that makes us make spelling errors, this started in a poetry class we both took where we each had like five spelling errors per class.

For about a year and a half, this troper thought The New Pornographers' song "Broken Breads" was actually "Broken Beads", and even "corrected" the song title in Windows Media Player (since WMP ''has'' gotten song titles wrong occasionally in my experience). Until I happened to look at the back of the CD case and--"Huh, what do you know, it ''is'' 'breads'."

This troper also has to remind herself that the lead singer of Neutral Milk Hotel is Jeff Mangum, not Jeff Magnum.

IReadThatAs "Broken Breasts".

Yeah, being dyslexic I do this with people's names a lot. I read Trent Reznor as Trent Razor and thought that's what it was for a while. I've also read Goodnight Nurse as Goodnight Curse (don't ask me how; I have no clue). I'm guaranteed to have misspelled the names of teachers and friends at some point.

(Same troper from the New Pornographers/Jeff Mangum entries) As a kid, playing Super Mario World, I always read Reznor's (dinosaur boss in the fortresses, apparently named after Trent Reznor) name as "Renzor".

This happens all the time on a Georgian (Caucasus) new site I read; e.g. "cross-boarder communication" etc. Well, I'm glad the tourists are communicating, but...

When I was in High School, I remember writing an essay that claimed a book's ending was "Anti-climatic". Though I don't recall what book it was, I'm pretty sure it didn't turn into some kind of AuthorTract against weather conditions by the end.

This Troper now just ignores cases where German words ending on -nis are spelled with two s, but still considers it nooby. On the other hand, some typos became in-jokes. Fear the holy carp!

Any ''DwarfFortress'' player will tell you that "Oh carp" is, in fact, the correct form.

When this Troper was a tutor at her local community college, she heard a tale from a coworker about a friendly middle-aged student (whose name will be withheld) that was just learning how to use Microsoft Office 2007. Well, my coworker told the student that when Office underlines a word in red, it is ''likely'' to be misspelled, and before clicking on the first option that Auto Correct offered him, he should double check to be sure that he had the right word. Simple. Well, five minutes later, my coworker noticed that the student had put a different name at the top of his paper than the one he had introduced himself with. When my coworker asked for an explanation, the student said, "Well, the spell-checker said my name was spelled wrong, so I changed it." Much bashing-of-heads-against-walls and barely-contained screams of laughter followed this incident. Sure, spell-checker doesn't accept my last name either, but...really, now.

This editor gets infuriated when someone spells "definately" or "definatly" instead of "definitely". He also cringes when people use "you're" where "your" should be, "they're" where "there" should be, "yer" instead of "your", and so on... but the next time he sees someone spell "then" instead of "than" he will probably throw the computer across the room.

In a music-oriented forum, someone started a thread to discuss the band "The Ratpure" (a typo for "The Rapture"). This spelling became an in-joke.

Humorously, there are many instances of this trope on both this and the main page.

Confusing "litter" and "liter" can be particularly amusing when referring to "a liter of kittens". Liters are usually used to measure things that can be poured, so one hopes they're just really tiny kittens, not liquefied ones.

This tropette often makes odd typos while IMing, usually in the form of some FreudianSlip or even becoming different words. For example:

Prometheus= pronethues, or pormetheus

Hetalia = hentalia

Lelouche Lamperouge = leloch ]]lamperrogue

failed = falied

Interesting example of the Cupertino Effect right there, unless you actually smell bad while you make those mistakes.

Inverted example? Microsoft Word doesn't recognize 'angsting' as a word. When I used it in a MS Word document (labeled a fanfic as some angsting) and used spellchecker without paying attention to the replacement, Word turned it into 'ingesting'. Having the word 'ingesting' in the description attracted quite a bit of traffic, just not the kind I was hoping for.

One Mission Architect story this troper created in CityOfHeroes ("Wayward Son", arc ID 335401) actually used this as a bit of {{foreshadowing}}. The antagonists in the arc, KRONOS, claimed to be a TimePolice organization that were hunting down Incarnates under the premise that they would inevitably shatter time simply by existing. course, as anyone with a background in ClassicalMythology could tell you, the titan Kronos had nothing to do with time. Instead, he was the father of Zeus...who the setting's main hero, Statesman, happens to be an Incarnate of. Now, guess who KRONOS was led by...

This Troper works at a print shop where, it happens a pamphlet on breast cancer was being typed up. Three guesses what typo that a spell checker won't catch was right on the cover. right, ''Beast'' Cancer. Mercifully it was caught before the thing went to press, but not before the client saw it.

This Troper works in a photo lab. One of the products we sell is photobooks; one of the features of the photobooks is that the customers can put any caption they want on the cover. One day a woman made a book using pictures of her kids, to give to the kids' grandparents. I looked at the first page that printed, and saw a one-word caption in large letters. "Gandparents!" Yeah ...

This Troper feels bad for her friend, he's a really talented writer save for some strange spelling habits. Ex: "Devine" as opposed to "divine" and the obligatory "Satin" for "Satan". All fine and dandy until one realizes it's supposed to be about the conflict between Heaven and Hell. Not to mention I had to physically stop myself saying to him, "satin is a nice fabric, but how in the hell did you decide that the Devil's pajamas were more evil than him?"

This troper was roleplaying with a friend and somehow managed to type 'licked' instead of 'kicked' and HilarityEnsued. In another instance, 'charge' was spelled as 'chrage'. The last one has become a minor RunningGag since then.

Quite some time back on Yahoo! Clubs This Troper was involved in an PBP RPG where cavalry tactics came up as a topic and he managed to typo cavalry as Calvary, much Fun ensued as a fine debate became a tantrum spiral.

This Troper who forgot their password has a friend who has mispelled DISK as DICK, LIKE as LICK, SHIRT as SHIT, DUCK as DICK, SPIT AS SHIT, ADD as ASS, and multiple other naughty and hilarious misspellings.

This Troper just clicked save as she saw someone spell socks as cocks. Whoops.

This troper accidently handed in a movie review to her English teacher that described an age of filmmaking known as the 'Disney Reconnaissance.' Doh.

This troper’s brother use to be really bad with spelling. When we were young, we went to a Paint-a-Pot shop. He ended up making a soup dispenser. He has also misspelled ‘college’ on his college essay. Being that this troper’s family is full of GrammarNazis (we’ve even had dinner conversations on the use of gerunds), he will never live it down. As well, this troper has had the pleasure of editing a paper made by a friend of hers that misspelled ‘of’ as ‘ov’.

I sometimes wonder how my Year 10 English class was the top set. One time I found myself wondering this was when a girl was writing out a story using the big whiteboard computer at the front of the room, and typed something like this: "I raped up my sandwich in cling film". Needless to say, I burst out laughing.

...sandwich was asking for it...

There's a bit of graffiti not too far from where I live that says "cr sucks socks". I don't know who CR is, but I doubt he sucks ''any'' of his clothing. Were you perhaps trying to insinuate that he is a homosexual?

This tropers iPhone autocorrect seems to be slightly schizophrenic in this regard. On the one hand, it will turn up the correct word, even if only three letters actually resemble it, such as if I typed 'letter' as 'lsterr' it will correct it to letter. Other times, it goes of the rails. For example, if I happen to miss the second 'p' in 'people' (peole) It auto corrects it to "Proletariat". And once, I misspelled 'stalking'. The phones response? Stalingrad.

When posting on Harry Potter boards and newsgroups, this troper's spellcheck keeps trying to change 'Slytherin' to 'Lutheran.' Which is interesting, given that JK Rowling is a Presbyterian.

This troper has seen many spelling mistakes on the internet, such as one case of "I'll be it" when "albeit" was intended, but the most prevalent mistake not relating to "you", "they", "it" seems to be when something is said to "wreck havoc". Havoc is essentially chaos, so -wrecking- it would be synonymous with retaining order and control. The actual phrase is to "wreak" havoc, that is to -cause- it. In one case, however, the usual mistake was dodged but the phrase ended up as "reap havoc", which is something of a reversal of who's causing and receiving the aforementioned havoc.

I've also seen "reek havoc". Well, havoc ''does'' stink, I guess.

This Troper had a teacher who'd often misspell stuff. Being the designated good-at-English-person since my classmates weren't good with foreign languages, I was the one to point that out all the time. I think the worst I've ever read was half an A4-paper with five of these. Pity I didn't save them...

In middle school, a girl was going around and collecting the names and phone numbers of people she considered friends. I didn't really like her, but wrote down my information anyway just to be polite. She looked at my name, and read aloud, "Kristin Matlock." ''...Close'', but my first name is not Kristin nor does my last name have an L, C, or K anywhere in it.

I typed "loosing" instead of "losing". Apparently, it's a word, though not shown in a dictionary. I think it means "loosen".

This troper knows of a guy who misspelled Satan as satin. And then had a friend give a speech on it and was confused as to why she gave a speech about fabric.

My sister frequently does this: the funniest one that comes to mind is when she spelt "Golden coin" as "Golden colin". Not joking there (she was about twelve or thirteen at the time, so there isn't an excuse of being young to save her). It became a running gag, as my accordion teacher was called colin. To be fair on her, I frequently have to correct myself when I try typing particularly long words ("philosopher" is one I still have a problem with, but I've got better).

A member of a forum I am on mentioned in a thread about how they have no respect for murderers, pedophiles and rappers. She went on about how immoral and evil rappers are, and we eventually found out she was talking about rapists.

I once managed to type "GailSimone" instead of "Simone Simmons." It was... odd.

Until corrected, this troper called the WorldOfWarcraft underwater plant "Strangekelp." (It's actually StrangLEKelp...) To be fair, it ''is'' rather strange for kelp to strangle things.

Typos of Doom!

This troper's father told her a very funny story a few days ago. He had been looking up something on his iPhone (4G). The thing with the auto-correct is that it only does its job if you press space, and since he was finished the first word it he pressed it. It auto-corrected the word to 'Slushy'. What was the original word? ''Aliant.'' Not one single character is the same!

Every time I type the word 'soul' I have to resist the urge to put a 'd' on the end. What's a sould? I have no idea.

This troper's DM in an online D&D game has a tendency to refer to me as a "rouge". Normally, I avoid grammar-naziing my group, but that is the one typo I just can't abide in a D&D game. I recently redirected him to the RougeAnglesOfSatin page.

This troper is fairly good in English, except he once spelled ''Hectic'' as ''Heretic'' while half asleep.

A friend at a forum I go to once asked if there was a "nude button" in the chat. He meant "nudge button". Other examples from the same troper:

"Memes" for "means".

"Poop" for "poor".

Maybe he's just a Roman Maronie.

When I tried autocorrect for fun (not iphone, though) it corrected "Team Rocket" into "Team Pocket".

This troper has come across some particularly funny mispellings on the part of a terrible fanfic author. Examples include "next in line to the thrown", "dating towards the edge of a cave" and "they were colleges" (as opposed to colleagues).

A facebook friend pointed out that, according to their website, a certain independent TV program will not air music videos that include "lude jesters". They most likely meant "lewd gestures", though I can see how clowns on qualudes could also be objectionable. He also of course pointed out that The 'Lude Jesters would be AGoodNameForARockBand.

I remember an embarrassing instance where I mentioned that famous classical piece Paco Bell's Cannon. In my defense I was pretty young and had only heard the name said aloud.

There used to be a paper flying around that was a list of similar funny mistakes from High School students. They included a short summary of "Donkey Hote", and an explanation of how World War I was started by the assassination of the Archduck.

This Troper's computer just autocorrected 'veintecuatro' (24 in spanish) to 'vindicator'.

All references to one's hart instead of one's heart produce silly mental images - for instance I've seen a Moby song title mistakenly rendered as "Why Does My Hart Feel So Bad" and thought of a concerned Moby taking his sick pet deer to the veterinary office. It sometimes happens in kind of inappropriate contexts too, like someone on a message board saying that their "hart" goes out to those affected by the recent tsunamis in Japan.

There's a piece of Telecom equipment called a "DMX". Outlook insists that "[=DMXes=]" should be "DAMES".

I once did this to a person's name! This Troper used to think that Marco Hietala was named Marco {{Hetalia}}.

''Frostsabre.'' My personal favourite is seeing something like "Thank you for suing our law firm." Weird, unless they mean "using," I would've not used them as my defence. Sue their grammarian instead.

And also on TroperTales: "This trooper..."

And on a speed-typing test, I once caught myself typing ''cunt'' instead of ''count.'' Thank God...

This troper is a teaching assistant for an online class. I grade papers, and I've come across some interesting ones. The two that spring to mind are "lake of communication" and "survey to asses". Ironically enough, the latter was in reference to poor managers...

This troper's brother saw some primary school kids passing a note that read 'Good Youtube movie: The Three Ningers'. When he told them that they had misspent (The spellchecker won't let me say 'misspelt'!) 'ninjas', they changed it to 'Niggers'.

As a subtle pisstake to someone misspelling "colleagues" as "colleges", this troper created a picture, demonstrating two colleges in love with each other.

Said troper has also seen wonderful examples of grammar such as "thrown" instead of "throne" and even "have" instead of "half" - despite the fact the author used half in the exact same sentence.

This Malay-speaking troper is incensed that MSWORD keeps changing "teh" to "the". In my country, "teh" is "tea", not some kind of leet lingo. Good thing I'm not working for a food and drink establishment...

This troper's newspaper this morning managed to put "mental bar" for "metal bar".