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* ''ComicBook/KrazyKat''.

* ''VideoGames/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.

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* Kenesaw Mountain Landis[[note]]who did not, in actuality, stand seventeen feet tall or have a hundred and fifty wives[[/note]], a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts US federal judge]] and then Major League UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}}'s famously iron-fisted first commissioner, 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.

* The Polish animated series ''Włatcy móch'' (a misspelling of "Władcy much", i.e. "[[Literature/LordOfTheFlies Lords of the Flies]]".)

* The character of "Homsar" was created when a fan misspelled the name of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', which the creators found hilarious.

* DanielsonFamile: In keeping with their childlike aesthetic, a lot of words are consistently misspelled in titles and lyrics: "famile", "hartz", "thanx", etc. When bandleader Daniel Smith started his own record label, he named it Sounds Familyre.

* ''{{Series/Kaamelott}}'' has an episode titled "La mort le roy Artu", a mangled ye olde French of "KingArthur's death" or "Death and KingARthur", based on the equally mispelled (to modern appearances) "Literature/LeMorteDArthur". It's also intentionally misleading, since the episode is about Kaamelott's priest selling guided tours of Arthur's tomb to raise money, which Arthur only finds out about when he's dismissively introduced to the tour group as Lancelot's squire.

* The [[{{Xanth}} Swell Foop]] is much better than any of the other, more ordinary foops.

* Kenesaw Mountain Landis[[note]]who did not, in actuality, stand seventeen feet tall or have a hundred and fifty wives[[/note]], a [[AmericanCourts US federal judge]] and then Major League UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}}'s famously iron-fisted first commissioner, 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.

* Inverted with ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. The character Betelgeuse's name is always seen spelled correctly, to the point that a character mispronounces it while trying to read it aloud. The title of the film spells it phonetically so that viewers will be able to pronounce it correctly ''before'' seeing the film.

* Shakespears Sister. According to [[IAmTheBand founding member]] Siobhan Fahey, the slight misspelling of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's name was originally a mistake, but she ran with it because "it made it sort of my thing, as opposed to the song by Music/TheSmiths" [[note]] The name was adapted from The Smiths' "Shakespeare's Sister", though that in turn was a reference to ''A Room Of One's Own'' by Creator/VirginiaWoolf[[/note]]. The punctuation is apparently also a stylistic choice - The first album, ''Sacred Heart'', was officially by "Shakespear's Sister", but subsequent albums dropped the apostrophe. The "misspelling" of Shakespeare is AccidentallyAccurate -- the man himself was inconsistent, and it used to be common for scholars to prefer the "Shakespear" spelling. No doubt some still do.

* Shakespears Sister. According to [[IAmTheBand founding member]] Siobhan Fahey, the slight misspelling of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's name was originally a mistake, but she ran with it because "it made it sort of my thing, as opposed to the song by Music/TheSmiths" [[note]] The name was adapted from The Smiths' "Shakespeare's Sister", though that in turn was a reference to ''A Room Of One's Own'' by Creator/VirginiaWoolf[[/note]]. The punctuation is apparently also a stylistic choice - The first album, ''Sacred Heart'', was officially by "Shakespear's Sister", but subsequent albums dropped the apostrophe.
** The "misspelling" of Shakespeare is AccidentallyAccurate -- the man himself was inconsistent, and it used to be common for scholars to prefer the "Shakespear" spelling. No doubt some still do.

* AvrilLavigne's ''sk8r boi'', which looks like something written by a teenager in a text message.

* ''[[VideoGame/OddWorld Abe's Oddysee]]'' had to shoehorn the word Odd in there. As did its sequel, ''Abe's Exoddus''
* The ancient king was named "Ham'''m'''urabi" but the creator of the videogame ''VideoGame/{{Hamurabi}}'' either forgot a 'm' or wanted to keep the name within the eight-character limit. See also the quote.

->''"This error has spread far and wide until a generation of students who have used this program now think that Hammurabi is the incorrect spelling."''
-->-- '''''[[http://atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=78 BASIC Computer Games]]'' about the game ''VideoGame/{{Hamurabi}}'''''

* ''Feersum Endjinn'' by [[Creator/IainBanks 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''!
** Actually, it's even worse. If it were only Fonetik Inglish, it wouldn't be that hard to read, but gratuituously interspersed "&" for and, "1" for one etc. ''even inside words''...[[BerserkButton AAARGH!]]

* ''KrazyKat''.

* ''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''

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* ''Feersum Endjinn'' by [[Creator/IainBanks 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''!
** Actually, it's even worse. If it were only Fonetik Inglish, it wouldn't be that hard to read, but gratuituously interspersed "&" for and, "1" for one etc. ''even inside words''...[[BerserkButton AAARGH!]]
* ''Literature/LoveAndFreindship'' by Creator/JaneAusten is an EpistolaryNovel where "freind" is always written for "friend", along with a number of other misspellings. The misspellings are all Austen's (she wrote it when she was 14). She corrected the spelling later in life, but editors of her work tend to leave it uncorrected as they think it's charming.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/PetSematary'' is spelled as it was written on a sign made by some kids outside the cemetery in the story.
* ''Dorp Dead'' by Julia Cunningham, titled after a note by an angry teenager.
* ''Literature/GrannyThePag'' is a nickname that stuck after a little girl tried to write a note calling her grandmother a pig, but wasn't sure how to spell it.
* Darren Shan's ''[[Literature/TheDemonata Slawter]]'' is titled after the name of the town the plot takes place in.
* ''Literature/TheYoungVisiters'' was written when the author was nine. Most editions preserve the misspellings, and TheFilmOfTheBook pronounces them phonetically. [[RuleOfFunny Because it's funnier that way.]]
* ''Literature/RainbowsEnd'' is an ambiguous case. At one point, some characters wonder whether the name of the [=titular=] apartment complex is a philosophical observation, or just has a missing apostrophe, but never come to a definite conclusion.
* The [[{{Xanth}} Swell Foop]] is much better than any of the other, more ordinary foops.

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* ''Freex'' was a series about a bunch of super-powered teenagers that was part of the short-lived [[ComicBook/TheUltraverse Ultraverse]] line from Malibu Comics in the [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 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 appearance, had a very limited education.
* ''KrazyKat''.
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* Back when ''Magazine/{{Cracked}}'' was on paper, it always referred to itself as a "mazagine". When Cracked went online, they called themselves a "wesbite."

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* ''Literature/GrannyThePag'' is a nickname that stuck after a little girl tried write a note calling her grandmother a pig, but wasn't sure how to spell it.

* One of the characteristic dishes of [[UsefulNotes/TwinCities Minneapolis, Minnesota]] is a hamburger with a slice of cheese [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot stuck inside the patty]], such that the cheese will melt into a runny liquid in the meat-chamber created for it and squirt and scald you if you're not careful. Like many American local dishes, two competing restaurants claim to have invented/perfected it, and one of the places claims that the reason you know that it's the real inventor because it's spelled wrong on their menu: They call this burger the "Jucy Lucy" (unlike their competition, which calls it the "Juicy Lucy"). This difference has been recognized by the competitors; the place that spells it "Juicy" has T-shirts that read "If it's spelled right, it's done right," while the place that spells it "Jucy" has advertising that reads, "If it's spelled right, [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion you are eating a shameless rip-off!]]"

* ''[[Film/DumbAndDumberTo Dumb and Dumber To]]''.

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* ''Feersum Endjinn'' by [[Creator/IainBanks 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''!
** Actually, it's even worse. If it were only Fonetik Inglish, it wouldn't be that hard to read, but gratuituously interspersed "&" for and, "1" for one etc. ''even inside words''...[[BerserkButton AAARGH!]]
* ''Literature/LoveAndFreindship'' by Creator/JaneAusten is an EpistolaryNovel where "freind" is always written for "friend", along with a number of other misspellings. The misspellings are all Austen's (she wrote it when she was 14). She corrected the spelling later in life, but editors of her work tend to leave it uncorrected as they think it's charming.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/PetSematary'' is spelled as it was written on a sign made by some kids outside the cemetery in the story.
* ''Dorp Dead'' by Julia Cunningham, titled after a note by an angry teenager.
* ''Literature/GrannyThePag'' is a nickname that stuck after a little girl tried write a note calling her grandmother a pig, but wasn't sure how to spell it.
* Darren Shan's ''[[Literature/TheDemonata Slawter]]'' is titled after the name of the town the plot takes place in.
* ''Literature/TheYoungVisiters'' was written when the author was nine. Most editions preserve the misspellings, and TheFilmOfTheBook pronounces them phonetically. [[RuleOfFunny Because it's funnier that way.]]
* ''Literature/RainbowsEnd'' is an ambiguous case. At one point, some characters wonder whether the name of the [=titular=] apartment complex is a philosophical observation, or just has a missing apostrophe, but never come to a definite conclusion.
* The [[{{Xanth}} Swell Foop]] is much better than any of the other, more ordinary foops.

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* ''Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel''.

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* Back when ''Magazine/{{Cracked}}'' was on paper, it always referred to itself as a "mazagine". When Cracked went online, they called themselves a "wesbite."
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* The Australian sketch comedy show ''Series/TheMicallefProgram'' was ''The Micallef Pogram'' for its third season. This was because of running debate about the correct spelling of program/programme. It was 'Program' in the first season and became 'Programme' for the second. They went for deliberate misspelling in the third in an attempt to stop the letters.
* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': Vyvyan, aside from the [[XtremeKoolLetterz unconventional spelling]] of his first name, was officially given the surname 'Basterd'.
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* The ancient king was named "Ham'''m'''urabi" but the creator of the videogame ''VideoGame/{{Hamurabi}}'' either forgot a 'm' or wanted to keep the name within the eight-character limit.
** See also the quote.

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* The Polish animated series ''Włatcy móch'' (a misspelling of "Władcy much", i.e. "[[Literature/LordOfTheFlies Lords of the Flies]]".)
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