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This troper is ashamed of how long it took him to get the title, and so has not attached his name.
Looney Toons: That's okay, Doug, we won't tell anyone.
This troper: Curses. Foiled again.
Looney Toons: I've been puttering around with a kind of reference guide for fanfic writers for some months, and I have a section on errors like the ones this trope entry describes. I just recently extracted it from the master file and formatted it for the wiki — it comes in at about 18K. Now, it's not just a list of words like the main page has, but it's got definitions for clarity and snarkiness for fun. I was thinking maybe I could set it up as a separate examples page linked off the main one. Would anyone object to me doing something like that?
Looney Toons: Okay, after the best part of the week, I'm taking the lack of expressed disapproval as being functional equivalent to approval. Or at least apathy. It's in now.
Looney Toons: The new entry about the business cards reading "Pubic Relations Director" probably isn't a good example of this trope, but I'm too lazy to edit it out right now. It does, however, remind me of a similar accidental (?) case. In North Brunswick NJ, off of but visible from Route 1, there is one of those self-storage establishments. When it was built, it had the phrase
PUBLIC SELF STORAGE
formed of foot-plus-high white plastic letters displayed on a wall facing the highway. However, several of the letters fell off over the course of time before the glue finally stabilized or something, and then for several years in the middle of the 1990s, the sign quite prominently read
PUB IC ELF RAGE
It stayed that way until the entire facility was renovated around 1999; the disappearance of the raging elf was a time of great sadness here.
Dark Soldier: White Wolf's "infamous page XX" isn't an example of bad spelling; it's bad editing. The pages of RPG books fluctuate during the writing process, so "page XX" is a placeholder, which is supposed to get changed to the proper page number when the book is finalized. Apparently, White Wolf's editors can't run the manuscript through a word processor, search for "XX," and correct each one.
Is, "Irate" the same idiot who steals all of the "Angry, Nintendo Nerd's" ideas? Was he the one who thought Zombies Ate My Neighbors was shitty because it had a variety of enemies (I Am not Making This Up?)?
Document N: To the first, looks like someone removed the mention; to the second, no idea.
- armored/amoured
Amplt0: No. This is not a typo, this is just an example of American English hating words that end in "our".
Prfnoff: Yes, "armoured" would be the correct spelling in the Queen's English. If you read it again, though, you'll notice the missing "r" in "amoured." This still shouldn't be on the page, because it isn't an English word on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Big T: I'd assumed it meant something about being in love. Like, "This is Becky, my amoured." I figured it came from French.
Halcyon Umbra: I nominate ravaged/ravished for addition to the page. All in favor?
Document N: Aye.
- One story on Fictionmania (a website dedicated to Gender Bender fiction) persistently misspelled "vagina" as "virginia." Since the protagonist was obsessed with the fact that he/she now had a vagina, the word "virginia" appeared roughly every other paragraph.
I'm counting at least eight entries about hilarious/embarrassing misspellings that have nothing to do with overreliance on spellcheckers. Isn't there a page for that? —Document N
D Farrey: I find myself wondering if I'm the only one for whom the title of this page conjures up images of shiny red bedsheets that have been neatly folded.
Didn't there used to actually be a picture of a red fabric triangle on this page? It was much funnier than Rouge the Bat.
Because it seems likely someone will "correct" my edit of "just desserts", support: http://www.snopes.com/language/notthink/deserts.asp
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This troper remembers one exception to angles/angels which always confused people and got them to misspell the cult. I don't remember the exact name, but it was something like the 'Seven Angles of Hell', but people often would assume that was the wrong spelling and misspell it as 'Seven Angels of Hell'.
- Talking about the arena of expertise.
