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jabsonik<p>”Failed”? This experimental <a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> from the 60s is instantly quite readable to any Finn:</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/education/2025</span><span class="invisible">/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell</span></a></p><p>' It used to baffle me – how could this person, who races through multiple books a week and can quote Shakespeare faultlessly, possibly think “me” is spelt with two Es? '</p><p>Dunno... maybe because that's how you pronounce it? :-P That's how _we_ do it here in <a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a> anyway. WYSIWYG spelling FTW!</p>
Niels Nielsen, geographer<p>Synes du også det er svært at vide hvordan engelske ord skal staves (uden at gribe til autokorrektur), så se lige dette vilde eksperiment i undervisning, fra Storbritannien i 1960'erne. Som jeg aldrig havde hørt om.. tilsyneladende fordi det ret pludselig var blevet opgivet og aldrig ordentligt dokumenteret, undersøgt. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/engelsk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engelsk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/stavning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stavning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/education/2025</span><span class="invisible">/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a></p>
🅺🅸🅼 🆂🅲🅷🆄🅻🆉<p>Zoom might need someone to correct their spelling. Check this error message:</p><p>{"status":false,"errorCode":6020,"errorMessage":"Please join meeting/webinar from corresponding IDP with corresponding authentication &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;confoguration&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;","result":null}<br><a href="https://social.data.coop/tags/dailyfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dailyfail</span></a> <a href="https://social.data.coop/tags/zoom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zoom</span></a> <a href="https://social.data.coop/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Swede’s Photographs<p>Good morning. 😴⏰☕</p><p>10 June 2025</p><p>Nobody nose—nobody knows! Fun with homophones or just a bit of confusion? Maybe a little of both. I'm not really going anywhere with this, just rambling. Ever find yourself typing the wrong word, like "here" instead of "hear," even though you know better? I do it all the time—especially when thinking fast. Proofreading definitely pays off, and autocorrect usually saves the day.</p><p>Funny how we've come to depend on things without even realizing it. Back in the '70s, autocorrect was just a dictionary—and maybe a little bottle of "white-out." Yes, way back when we were still dragging our knuckles on the ground.</p><p>"Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices." – David Crystal</p><p>"A pun is the lowest form of humor—unless you thought of it first." – Oscar Levan</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photographylovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photographylovers</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/morning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>morning</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flowers</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/homophones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homophones</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Asterix<p>Ik kan me doodergeren aan <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/taalfouten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taalfouten</span></a> in de professionele context, zeker in deze tijden waarin er ingebouwde spellingscontroles, browserextensies als <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LanguageTool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LanguageTool</span></a> (<a href="https://languagetool.org/nl" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">languagetool.org/nl</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>), online woordenlijsten (<a href="https://woordenlijst.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">woordenlijst.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) en <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> tools (Copilot, Perplexity ...) bestaan.</p><p>Dan zijn er zoveel hulpmiddelen, zie je nog dingen staan als "geef uw email adres op" of "beleid voorbereidend overleg". 😤</p><p>Geef een boost als je correcte spelling belangrijk vindt!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NederlandseTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NederlandseTaal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Mark A. Rayner<p>It's so exciting when I get to unwaprd a package I've been waiting for!</p><p>Proofreading: it matters!</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/typo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typo</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/typos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typos</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/proofreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>proofreading</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/editing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fargileItMustBeItalian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fargileItMustBeItalian</span></a></p>
Finto-palvelu<p>To improve findability, alternative spellings for English terms have been added to General Finnish Ontology YSO. Previously, British English spellings were favoured [sic], but now they have been joined by American English spellings: theatre and theater, self-defense and self-defense, organisational behaviour and organizational behavior etc. Over 600 YSO concepts were provided with an additional spelling. <a href="https://some.kansalliskirjasto.fi/tags/YSO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YSO</span></a> <a href="https://some.kansalliskirjasto.fi/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>english</span></a> <a href="https://some.kansalliskirjasto.fi/tags/britishenglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>britishenglish</span></a> <a href="https://some.kansalliskirjasto.fi/tags/americanenglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>americanenglish</span></a> <a href="https://some.kansalliskirjasto.fi/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> <a href="https://some.kansalliskirjasto.fi/tags/ortography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ortography</span></a></p>
Jody Hughes<p>It’s quite easy to mistakenly write lead (element Pb) instead of led, because they sound the same. I see this all the time. But it never seems to happen that people write read (past tense) instead of red, yet the two situations seem similar.</p><p>I guess it has to do with the relative common-ness of led and red, and the fact that we learn red much earlier than led.</p><p><a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/wordplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wordplay</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
BobDevney<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> </p><p>Beloved Tor editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden once wrote about interviewing candidates for publishing jobs. If they could spell "accommodate," they might make good copy editors.</p><p>Decades ago, after fumbling it myself, I asked 30 other experts how to spell the word. All my fellow marketing writers plus managers, editors, tech writers, etc., in the corporate communications office where I worked. Only 1 person — a lowly (but beloved) typist — got it right.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spelling</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Publishing</span></a></p>
CBC Top Stories<p>Why isn't 'laugh' spelled L-A-F? Author explores the many failed attempts of simplifying English spelling<br>Have you ever wondered why English spelling often seems to defy logic — like why choir and liar rhyme, but laughter and daughter don’t? In his new book, Gabe Henry explores this c...<br><a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Radio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/TheCurrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheCurrent</span></a><br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/why-isn-t-laugh-spelled-l-a-f-author-explores-the-many-failed-attempts-of-simplifying-english-spelling-1.7514096?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/why-is</span><span class="invisible">n-t-laugh-spelled-l-a-f-author-explores-the-many-failed-attempts-of-simplifying-english-spelling-1.7514096?cmp=rss</span></a></p>
Paco Hope #resist<p>It. Is. Already. Plural. </p><p>(And I expected the Staff door to say “Staffs” or even “Staves”)<br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Third spruce tree on the left<p>Grammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break? </p><p>me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grammarly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammarly</span></a> and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a>, grammar and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> in our product <a href="https://mas.to/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a> isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.</p>
FunHouse Radio<p>► <a href="https://FunHouseRadio.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">FunHouseRadio.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/pork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/groceries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groceries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>How is pre-existing not in the Firefox (Linux?) dictionary, but pee-existing is? 🤔<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Sjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺<p>Spelling. Zoooo jaren zeventig.<br><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/taal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taal</span></a></p>
Ed Wilk 🇺🇦🌵<p>Let's argue about whether it's "Whiskeygate" or Whiskygate" . <br>Go.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Whiskeygate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whiskeygate</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Whiskygate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whiskygate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Chunderroad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chunderroad</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Tim Richards<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.allrite.at/@allrite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>allrite</span></a></span> I noticed nearly all the typos in the first book were homophones, eg lightening &gt; lightning, straight &gt; strait, breaks &gt; brakes, etc. Spellcheck is no good for those.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Tim Richards<p>Just sent the author of two travel narrative books a list of typos to fix. Is that too presumptuous? They're great reads, but would be better if 'lightening' was correctly spelled 'lightning' etc. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦<p>There should be another Law of <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Robotics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Robotics</a>: No robot or <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23computer" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computer</a> is allowed to sass a human by randomly changing their <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23spelling" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spelling</a> or doing other such insolent things.</p>
John Sturgeon<p>I disagree with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gruber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gruber</span></a></span> here. I think the internet is more like the sky than the Earth. The Earth is a singular thing, but the sky is defined by all of the elements in it. In that sense the internet is more like the sky than the Earth and therefore does not justify a capital I.</p><p>Thoughts:</p><p><a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/11/new-yorker-style-modernizations" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daringfireball.net/linked/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/11/new-yorker-style-modernizations</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/daringfireball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>daringfireball</span></a></p>