History Main / InheritedIlliteracyTitle

* ''Feersum Endjinn'' by Iain M. Banks. One of the narrators is an exceedingly poor speller. It's not just the title, but ''one third of the entire bloody text''!

* Weirdly inverted with ''{{Beetlejuice}}''. The title is the phonetical spelling of the character Betelgeuse, which is always seen spelled correctly in the film, to the point that a character mispronounces it while trying to read it aloud.

* Music/{{Stereolab}}'s second album was titled ''The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music'' (on the front cover at least--the spine and back cover spelled "Bachelor" correctly). The same album also had a song called "The Groop Played Chord X", and the liner notes of later album would continue referring to the band as "the groop".

* ''[[MortalKombat]]''

* Back when ''{{Cracked}}'' was on paper, it always referred to itself as a "mazagine". When Cracked went online, they called themselves a "wesbite."

* ''InglouriousBasterds'', the 2009 Tarantino film, contains a group called the "Basterds", but Tarantino has refused to explain the title further than that, saying, "You do an artistic flourish like that, and to explain it would just take the piss out of it and invalidate the whole stroke in the first place." Fanon states that Aldo Raine, who recruited and named the Basterds, is illiterate; the fact that the same misspelling shows up carved into his rifle stock lends credence to this. An alternate take would be: [[spoiler: The movie is set in an alternate universe where the words Bastard and Glory are spelled as Basterd and Gloury. The Frederick Zoller biopic fake trailer synches it.]]

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* The story "Dorp Dead" (does anyone know the author's name?), titled after a note by an angry teenager.

* {{Cleveland}} was originally named "Cleaveland" after founder Moses Cleaveland. However, the spelling was changed by either the local newspaper who dropped the silent "a" so that the name could fit on the masthead, or by a surveyor who spelled it wrong on the map he published. Either way, the new spelling stuck.

* ''InglouriousBasterds'', the 2009 Tarantino film, contains a group called the "Basterds", but Tarantino has refused to explain the title further than that, saying, "You do an artistic flourish like that, and to explain it would just take the piss out of it and invalidate the whole stroke in the first place." Fanon states that Aldo Raine, who recruited and named the Basterds, is illiterate; the fact that the same misspelling shows up carved into his rifle stock lends credence to this.
** FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: The movie is set in an alternate universe where the words Bastard and Glory are spelled as Basterd and Gloury. The Frederick Zoller biopic fake trailer synches it.]]

* Weirdly inverted with ''{{Beetlejuice}}''. The title is the phonetical spelling of the character Betelgeuse, which is always seen spelled correctly in the film but often pronounced wrong, like "Baytel-gice", by its characters.

* Back when ''{{Cracked}}'' was on paper, it always referred to itself as a "mazagine". When Cracked went online, they called themselves a "webstie."

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* ''SamuraiShodown''. Whether this was for RuleOfCool or part of the BlindIdiotTranslation that made the series famous is unknown, but it's remained to this day. Supposedly, this is because its originally planned title was ''Shogun Shodown'', with "Shogun" changed to "Samurai" at the last minute.
* ''[[OddWorld Abe's Oddysee]]'' had to shoehorn the word Odd in there. As did its sequel, ''Abe's Exoddus''.

* ''Freex'' was a series about a bunch of super-powered teenagers that was part of the short-lived [[TheUltraverse Ultraverse]] line from Malibu Comics in the [[DarkAge 1990s]]. The title came from the misspelling of the word "freaks" by Ray, a boy who looked like a rock monster and, having spent most of his life locked in a basement because his parents were ashamed of his apperance, had a very limited education.

** "[[http://thefreedictionary.com/inglourious Inglourious]]" is also misspelled.

* ''Feersum Endjinn'' by Iain M. Banks. One of the narrators is an exceedingly poor speller.
** For clarification, in this case it's not just the title, but ''one third of the entire bloody text''!

** In homage to said Zombies album, Velvet Crush called a compilation ''A Single Odessey''.

* ''SamuraiShodown''. Whether this was for RuleOfCool or part of the BlindIdiotTranslation that made the series famous is unknown, but it's remained to this day.
** Supposedly, this is because its originally planned title was ''Shogun Shodown'', with "Shogun" changed to "Samurai" at the last minute.
* ''[[OddWorld Abe's Oddysee]]'' had to shoehorn the word Odd in there.
** As did its sequel, ''Abe's Exoddus''.