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* Music/SmashingPumpkins [[FaceOfTheBand mastermind]] Billy Corgan had a fondness for "alternative" spellings of words and phrases. In addition to the album ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'', he also did this for [[OnceASeason at least song on every album]], including "Rhinoceros", "Window Paine", "Mayonaise", "Galapogos" and "Appels + Oranjes".

* SmashingPumpkins [[FaceOfTheBand mastermind]] Billy Corgan had a fondness for "alternative" spellings of words and phrases. In addition to the album ''Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'', he also did this for [[OnceASeason at least song on every album]], including "Rhinoceros", "Window Paine", "Mayonaise", "Galapogos" and "Appels + Oranjes".

* An early MrBungle demo had the intentionally RougeAnglesOfSatin-invoking title of ''Bowel Of Chiley''.

* Darren Shan's ''[[TheDemonata Slawter]]'' is titled after the name of the town the plot takes place in.

* ''KaijuBigBattel''.

* There's a LondonUnderground station whose official name is "Barons Court", apparently because it was named after an estate called "Baronscourt". Just to be awkward, there's another one nearby called "Earl's Court".

* Webcomic/{{xkcd}} does not have a blog. It has a [[http://xkcd.com/148/ blag]].
** Partly FunetikAksent by Southerner-cum-Bostonian Randal Munroe.

* ''MortalKombat''
** ADK (AKA: Alpha Denshi) parodies this convention with the title "'''A'''ggressors of '''D'''ark '''K'''ombat".

* Weirdly inverted with ''Film/{{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.
** At least this way [[FridgeBilliance people won't say the name of the character]] every time they see the movie.

* ''Charly'', the film version of ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''. (This is odd, since in the book, Charlie ''can'' spell his own name, even before [[spoiler:his increase in intelligence]].)

* There's a LondonUnderground station whose official name is "Barons Court". Just to be awkward, there's another one nearby called "Earl's Court".

* The Zombies' album ''Odessey and Oracle'': Originally the band said it was intentional, but later they claimed the designer of the cover art made the misspelling and they just went with it.
* In homage to said Zombies album, Velvet Crush called a compilation ''A Single Odessey''.

Compare XtremeKoolLetterz, FunetikAksent.

* The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster have "I Could Be an [[RougeAngelsOfSatin Angel]]", inspired by the misspelled sign a beggar was carrying.

* The city of {{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.

* It's hard to prevent people from mis-mispelling the TomWaits album ''Franks Wild Years''. It doesn't help that Waits previously had a track called "Frank's Wild Years", spelt correctly.

* Major League Baseball's first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, was named by his father after Georgia's Kennesaw Mountain, the site of the Civil War battle where he had received a permanent leg injury.

Some works have titles that could have come straight from RougeAnglesOfSatin. It's not an error, though, at least not directly. It's a deliberate reference to someone else making the same misspelling (usually one in the work itself, so expect a TitleDrop), or otherwise an attempt to counterfeit the inability to spell.

* Weirdly inverted with ''Film/{{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.

* StephenKing's ''Pet Sematary'' is spelled as it was written on a sign made by some kids outside the cemetery in the story.

* Indie rock band Carissa's Wierd. They would eventually lampshade it by calling an album ''I Before E''.
* The Zombies' album ''Odessey and Oracle'': Originally the band said it was intentional, but later they claimed the designer of the cover art made the misspelling and they just went with it.
* In homage to said Zombies album, Velvet Crush called a compilation ''A Single Odessey''.

* Jay Reatard, and by extension his former band the Reatards. It apparently had something to do with [[AppropriatedAppelation a heckler at one of their early shows calling them "retards"]] and pronouncing it strangely.

* {{xkcd}} does not have a blog. It has a [[http://xkcd.com/148/ blag]].

* The band Y Kant Tori Read, whose [[ToriAmos lead singer]] is ''far'' [[BreakupBreakout better known]] that the actual band. ToriAmos continued this when she became a successful solo artist. "Caught a Lite Sneeze", anyone?

* Likewise, {{Nirvana}}'s album ''Nevermind''. Part of Kurt Cobain's motivation was the wrong spelling!

* Allegedly, Oprah Winfrey's name was supposed to be Orpha, but the hospital misspelled it on her birth certificate so her family just left it that way.

* ''Charly'', the film version of ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''.
** Kind of an odd example, since in the book, Charlie ''can'' spell his own name, even before [[spoiler:his increase in intelligence]].