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If you can't tell the difference, you're being [[IncrediblyLamePun obtuse]]. [[OverlyLongGag Right]]?]]

** www.opthalmology.com - [[IncrediblyLamePun a site for sore eyes]].

** Mind you, a clever cleaver is [[IncrediblyLamePun quite sharp]].

*** In British English, "vice" is used in both senses.
**** Must be the [[http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/English%20vice English]] [[IncrediblyLamePun vice]].

** Well, he may be ''[[IncrediblyLamePun curt]]'', but he's no ''angel''...

* Haschel from ''LegendOfDragoon'' is a master of the Rouge School of Martial Arts (not a mistake, despite the game's dodgy translation; he comes from the village of Rouge). Naturally, it gets written as the Rogue School on occasion.

** The Discworld almost seems to exist at a time before standardised spelling. However, this would raise the question of how some people ''do'' have perfect spelling, and what it means, because if there were no standards, the modern standard would just be another convention among the rest.

* Customer/Costumer. A customer is someone who purchases goods or services. A costumer is someone who makes, sells, or rents costumes (or [[{{Costumer}} an episode of a show where the plot can be considered an excuse to put the cast in period costumes]]).

** This is then topped of by [[RuPaulsDragRace RuPaul]] parody cover "Going Vogue". [[http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/127568/SARAH-PALIN.jpg Truly a sight for sore eyes...]]

** The senator rushed to the aid of his young aide, when he learned the lad had AIDS.

* If you worked something out, you did not "deduct" it. You ''"deduced"'' it. Yes, ''what'' you worked out is called a "deduction", but if you "deduct" something you're ''reducing'' it.
* Emperor/emporer. ''Emperor'' is a royal rank higher than that of a king, and the person with that rank rules over an empire. An ''emporer'' would probably be someone who runs a emporium.

* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' is rife with these. As a specific example, Tigger's name is one. Also, Heffalumps and Woozles are corruptions of "Elephant" and "Weasel", respectively, and Christopher Robin was once thought to be going to ''skull'' instead of ''school'', ([[FridgeHorror which is]] [[NightmareFuel slightly terrifying]]).
* Owl, generally considered to be the intellectual of the group, can spell his name - W O L - and spell Tuesday well enough that you can tell it isn't Wednesday.

* ''DaveBarry in Cyberspace'' demonstrates the usefulness of a spell-checker by explaining that, not only would it find the misspelled word in the following passage, but suggest changing it to the actual word intended ("Strumpet"):

* A publisher in Australia was [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/19/penguin-cook-book forced to recall and destroy 7000 copies of a cookbook]] entitled ''The Pasta Bible'' after it was discovered that one of the recipes called for "freshly ground black ''people''" instead of pepper.

* TheOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_errata list of misprinted Bibles]], several of which got their printers in quite a bit of trouble--in particular a 1631 edition that left the "not" out of "thou shalt not commit adultery". Others misattributed some of Jesus' lines to Judas.

** To paint a convincing frieze, the artist told his subjects to freeze in place.

** When David ate Chef Paul's entire chocolate torte and seven of his miniature strawberry tarts without paying for them, David committed the tort of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(tort) conversion]], and now Paul may sue David for the value of the sweets.

** When David ate Chef Paul's entire chocolate torte and half of his miniature strawberry tarts without paying for them, he committed the tort of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(tort) conversion]], and now Paul may sue David for their value.

--->"Tortious" means an act banned by tort law.\\

* In ''HotFuzz'', the local newspaper is extremely prone to this. [[spoiler:The town council eventually kills the editor for it]].

* Bandit guns, grenade mods, and shields in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' have horribly misspelled names. Because, you know, they're manufactured by Bandits, who typically have very poor literacy if they can read at all. Take for instance the "Akurate Acurate smgg" -- they misspelled "accurate" ''twice'', and are too stupid to spell "SMG" (and they can't even keep that consistent, with some of their other submachine guns being called "smigs").

* ''WinnieThePooh'' is rife with these. As a specific example, Tigger's name is one. Also, Heffalumps and Woozles are corruptions of "Elephant" and "Weasel", respectively, and Christopher Robin was once thought to be going to ''skull'' instead of ''school'', ([[FridgeHorror which is]] [[NightmareFuel slightly terrifying]]).