Most common TT spelling mistakes

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

Do you know the ending of the English saying, 'People who live in glass houses...'?

(No peeking on google).

I believe it has to do with a king, who lived in a thatched hut, who was knocked out when his seat of office fell out of the rafters.

Moral: People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

No, but I'll give a clue, in the form of my own 'favourite' misspelling. By 'favourite', I do of course mean the one which most 'annoys me', 'grates my nerves' or even, 'drives me mad'.

It is the misspelling of the word 'exhibition'. (That's the correct spelling, in case you feel the need to look it up, but, of course, you won't).

What really 'annoys me' is when people miss out the 'h', as in 'exibitions'.

Or when they put it in the wrong place, as in 'exibhition' which 'grates my nerves'.

But what really 'drives me mad' is when they do both+. In +consecutive sentences.

Now all you spelling experts might think that so shocking, that I must be making it up. But it's true. I could even give you the location so that you could all see it for yourselves and chortle away in a very superior way. (Chortle, verb, 'to laugh, showing pleasure and satisfaction, often at someone else's bad luck'. Cambridge Dictionaries Online).

But I won't tell you. That would be too easy. What I'll do is give you a clue, then you can have the satisfaction of tracking it down by yourself and chortling all the more at how clever you've been. And maybe also with a little hint of relief.

Because when I said you could all see it and chortle in a superior way... I lied.

What I should have said was, nearly all of you would be chortling.

All except one.

Have fun!

By the way, anyone know what a 'petard' is? And what you do with it??? (You can google it if you really must).

Great news! Just spotted another corker! ('A person or thing that is especially good, attractive or funny+'. CDO). Somebody has just written ‘speing’ on a post! Can you believe that! Chortle, chortle, chortle. (Can you even guess what they were +trying to write??) I might even permit myself a little snigger. ('To laugh at someone or something in a silly and often unkind way'. CDO)
I won’t name names, but if you want to go find it and snigger away merrily to yourself, check out the ‘Teaching Italians in English’ thread here on ‘Tongues’ (where all the language ‘experts’ hang out). You’ll have to be quick, before they slither over there themselves and correct it. (The spelling you want is ‘speaking’. Just trying to be helful). Hurry now. All of you.
And yes! It is indeed yet another of our merry band of spelling fascists. Chortle, chortle, snigger, snigger some more. (A style tip, cover your mouth with the back of your hand when you’re sniggering. Uncovered mouth, not too wide, for chortling. And let the folds of fat on your belly wobble a bit as you do so).
You know, I’m beginning to enjoy this game. Immense fun.
Still no-one know the ending of the ‘glass houses’ saying, or what a petard is? Well, try this instead. Finish this saying, ‘Physician...’ A clue for you (save you google-time), it’s biblical. I’m not religious myself, but some of you might call yourselves ‘Christians’ on your days-off from doing 'other things'...

Two down.

Pétard?
You can "smoke" one or it can "smoke" you...

My airline gets lots of requests from people in the Middle East about hotels near the 'shamzelizay' and other such places, but we have learned to speak them out loud to figure out what they are talking about (although my example is one of the easiest ones). Actually, a lot of these spellings are perfect transliterations when you consider that many of these people have only ever seen the Arabic names for the places and monuments and they have to try to determine how it might be written in the Roman alphabet.

Sorry mate, you seem to have joined the party too late. Ansh_jain 97 is busy sweeping his blog so that he doesn't make an exhibition of himself, while I think nutrax is having an attack of nerves. Possibly gone out to buy a new dictionary.

Nice to have a more 'thoughtful' response to the issue though, rather than the earlier infantile intolerance and piss-taking.

I don't quite understand the point of your post unless you have been appointed as the person who decides that a thread is finished.

Perhaps he has appointed himself to that position.

I just saw a good one. I am pretty sure it's a case of autocorrect rather than bad spelling, but it made me chuckle.

A poster encouraged a visitor to Southeast Asai to get vaccinated for typhoon and Japanese encephalitis.