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->''Y-O-U-R,\\
Y-O-U-Apostrophe-R-E,\\
They're as different as night and day\\
Don't you think that night and day are different?\\
What's wrong with you?''\\
-- '''Strong Bad''', ''HomestarRunner'', [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail89.html Strong Bad Email #89: local news]] (in the EasterEgg)

-> '''Castle:''' 'Your' should be you apostrophe R-E, not Y-O-U-R. That's not even a tough one like when to use 'who' or 'whom.'\\
'''Becket:''' You really think that's the take away here?\\
'''Castle:''' I'm just saying whoever killed her also murdered the English language.\\
-- ''{{Castle}}''

FanFiction writers arr notoriously inclined too either nought yews eh spellchecker et auld (producing mistakes such ass thee numerous claims of "mispellings" awn this page), o'er too blindly trust them. thee latter case leads too too distinct problems:

* awn won hand, if eh mistyped whirred happens two bee eh valid English whirred itself, know spellchecker kin spot thee problem. Homophones & thee three mane words of this trope title (Rogue Angels of Satan, of coarse) ar particularly prone two this.
* On the other hand, a mistyped word, proper noun or even valid English word that just happens to not be a part of the dictionary (for whatever reason) can get "corrected" to something utterly preposterous. The variant is called the Cupertino Effect after numerous instances of "cooperation" being replaced by "Cupertino" in EU documents because the spellchecking expected "co-operation."

inn other words, this is wen eh spell chequer becomes Anne enemy, naught eh friend (especially wen it'ess set too thee dastardly "auto-correct"), & is thee result of thee imprecise & ambiguous nature of both thee English language & such programs. Seems too bee especially common inn fanfics, perhaps because TheyJustDidntCare.

If the words are correct, but the punctuation, grammar, or other usage is just '''wrong''', that's WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma. Compare with SpellMyNameWithAnS, where confusion occurs because ''nobody'' can agree to how a name is spelled. When this is done by a character in a work of fiction (or just by someone sending fanmail), expect them to get told that YouMakeMeSic. See {{Malaproper}} for someone who does this with the spoken word.

For a somewhat larger, somewhat snarky, list, see TheBigListOfBooboosAndBlunders.

Naturally, this page is a magnet for {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s.

[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Also, please try to avoid]] [[GrammarNazi sounding like a stuck-up douchebag when adding examples]].
%comment% Use of [==] in the middle of a word here prevents tvtropes itself from autocorrecting the word.

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!!Examples

[[folder:Common misspellings/miscorrections]]
* accept/except
** I accept your apology, except the bit about me being a douchebag.
* adverse/averse
** I am averse to these adverse weather conditions.
* affect/effect
** He affected the mannerisms of Solid Snake, which had quite an effect on his date.
** Affecting affects effects effects.
* Altar: A table used as a platform for religious worship. Alter: to change something.
** The Lady's Guild at the church altered the altar cloth.
* banzai/bonsai
** "Banzai!" screamed the samurai as he set about the tiny bonsai tree with his katana.
* bare/bear
** "Bear with me," said the shop assistant. "Bare with me," said the prostitute. "Bear's with me," said the zookeeper.
* bated/baited (as in, you wait with bated breath -- it means you're holding your breath, not stuffing maggots into your windpipe)
* board/broad/bored (as in [[http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071130173310AAfsmce "Should I get my son a surf broad for christmas?"]])
** I was really bored (uninterested) with what was written on the teacher's broad (wide) whiteboard.
* bowl/bowel (as in [[NightmareFuel "Super Bowel"]])
** If your bowels are not moving regularly, have a bowl of high-fiber cereal.
* break/brake
** If a car fails to brake in time, it will break against the wall.
* breath/breathe
** [[StalkerWithACrush I can hear your breath. I like to sit and watch you breathe]].
* broach/brooch
** "What happened to that old diamond brooch of yours," asked Rose's grandchildren, broaching the subject of the ''Titanic'' once again.
* bought/brought
** I bought a new hat and brought it with me
* {{canon}}/cannon
** To protect his book's canon, the author fired a cannon at the fanfiction convention.
*** (Just to make works worse, "cannon" is a canon plural of "cannon," though it has fallen out of usage lately in favor of the much clearer "cannons".)
*** ...[[FlatWhat What]].
* cant (slope (of a road or racetrack); lingo of a particular group; insincere talk) versus can't (cannot)
* capital/capitol
** Washington DC is the ''capital'' of the United States, and home to its ''capitol'' building.
** "Capitol" refers ''only'' to the building. All other meanings of this homophone use ''capital'' -- capital city, capital letter, capital punishment, capital ism, you name it.
* cite/site/sight
** I don't know if this is the right place, but I just have to vent about these three words. "I would like to cite a site that I just had a sight of."
* cleaver/clever
** Cleaver - butcher's knife. Clever - smart.
** Mind you, a clever cleaver is [[IncrediblyLamePun quite sharp]].
* cloth/clothe/cloths/clothes/clothing
** Cloth is what you cloth'''e''' yourself with when you wear cloth'''ing'''. Putting on cloth'''s''' would not necessarily or likely leave one clothed; for that, one would need to wear cloth'''es'''.
* coarse/course
** Marissa Amber Flores Picard Gordon frequently asked her helmsman to "set coarse" -- because she liked it rrrrrrough!
*** Of course she did.
* conscious/conscience
** I made a conscious decision to be guided by my conscience in the matter.
* council/counsel/consul
** The next item on the city council's agenda was an update on the discrimination lawsuit from its legal counsel. Since the consul is a party to the suit, his diplomatic immunity should make things interesting.
* definitely/defiantly
** I definitely wish my students didn't think there was an 'a' in the word "definitely." However, they defiantly continue to not only substitute an 'a' for an 'i,' but also to transpose the 'n' and 'a' and leave off the final 'e,' making the word triply wrong.
* desert/dessert
** The Sahara is a desert (DE-zert), you desert your post (de-ZURT), you get your just deserts (de-ZURT), but a dessert (de-ZURT again) is a yummy pudding.
** And of course, there's a Perry Bible Fellowship comic that [[http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF145-Nunez.jpg plays with this]].
* diffuse/defuse
** You defuse a bomb by de-fusing it, i.e. taking the fuse out. And metaphorically, you defuse a tense situation by calming everyone down. To diffuse means to distribute evenly. You will be diffused over a wide area if you fail to defuse the bomb correctly.
* discreet/discrete (although one could argue that someone looking for a discrete relationship when he/she's already in one isn't ''completely'' inaccurate)
** The enemy soldier was sliced into three discrete pieces - but let us draw a discreet veil over proceedings.
* draw/drawer/drawers
** A drawer is what you store things in. Your drawers are your underwear. Do I need to draw you a picture?
*** If you have a large collection of drawers, you might need a few drawers to store them in. Invest in a chest.
* elicit/illicit
** Illicit activities often elicit pleasurable reactions.
* except/expect
** "I expect you to have no problem with this game except the fourth level."
* faze/phase (Yes, "faze" is a word. No, it's not just "phase" spelled wrong. Yes, they mean two completely different things. This English Bachelors troper has lost count of the amount of times this mistake has been made in published fiction -- even ''Mark Twain'' did it.)
**To clarify: TheHero was unfazed by the villain's power to alter the phase of matter.
* flaunt/flout
** The rebel flouted the school's dress code by flaunting his new spiky collar.
* ''For all intensive purposes'' means ''For all the deeply thorough purposes.''
** For all '''intents and''' purposes means for all '''motives/reasons,''' and purposes possible.
*forgo/forego
**To forgo something means to go without it. Forego means to to go before, to precede.
*** This is completely incorrect. Both are the same word; "forego" is an alternate spelling. The first definition above is standard, and the second is archaic. [[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forgo]]
* formally/formerly
** Formally means in a manner consistent with some particular set of rules, like the rules of etiquette; formerly means that the description no longer applies but it used to.
*** In [[BritishAccents The Queen's English]], the two are pronounced the same.
* forth/fourth
** "Go forth!" he cried for the fourth time that day.
* heal/heel
** He had injured his heel playing soccer and hoped it would heal soon.
** And if you don't care about the difference, you may be a heel yourself.
* here/hear (the incorrect "Here! Here!" is, if anything, ''more'' common than the correct "Hear! Hear!")
** If you stand over here, you can hear the English majors crying after viewing this page.
*** I hear their tears of joy. They make me happy, right here.
* horde/hoard/whored
** A horde of dwarves descended on the Lonely Mountain when they heard about the dragon's hoard of treasure; the few dwarves who were absent because they had whored themselves out as mercenaries missed the opportunity.
* have/of (I never would HAVE thought that people would think it's spelled "would of").
** This is probably born of a [[FunetikAksent mistaken phonetic spelling]] of "Would've," which is a contraction of "Would have," with the apostrophe replacing the space and the H-A.
* hour/our
** The hour is late, and our host is growing tired.
*** Arrr, send 'im ta bed, then! He kin have arr room!
* its/it's (took this French-speaking troper years to get it)
** (Note: its' is '''not a word.''')
** TV Tropes widened its focus; now it's covering tropes from all kinds of media.
** Important distinction: an apostrophe is actually an illustration of a speaker "slurring over" parts of a word or phrase: "It's" is a shortening of "It is," with the apostrophe replacing the space and the "i". [[{{Magikchicken}} This Troper]] shudders whenever he sees "The monster [[YouMakeMeSic beared [sic] it is [sic]]] fangs."
** It's can also be short for "it has", as in "It's been a long time."
*** The craziest part is, other languages DO have contractions, only not generally with apostrophes.
** One reason for this confusion is the use of the apostrophe-s ('s) to indicate possession (genitive) for nouns in English. But pronouns indicate possession by inflexion, or by adding an s without the apostrophe, e.g. "yours", "hers", etc., including "its". People tend not to notice that "it" is a pronoun, and I don't remember this rule being explicitly taught in school.
* lo/low (As in "Lo and Behold", virtually the only remaining use of the otherwise obsolete word "lo")
** Blame that on its '''low''' circulation outside dramatic circles.
* lose/loose
** I start to lose perspective when I realise that people's grasp of spelling can be this loose.
** If you don't tighten that loose bolt, we could lose the entire wing!
* naval/navel
** The naval commander told his sailors to quit staring at their navels and get back to work.
* no/know
** No, I don't think you know enough about writing to become a professional.
* ordnance/ordinance
** A city ordinance forbids the posession of explosive ordnance without a permit.
* palate/palette/pallet
** palate: The roof of the mouth (used as a metonym for the sense of taste).
** palette: The board a painter uses to mix paints (metaphorically, a selection of colors).
** pallet: A platform for storing and transporting goods/[[{{Pokemon}} Ash Ketchum]]'s hometown.
* peak/peek/pique
** On the mountain's peak, he took a peek into his friend's diary in an act of pique.
** The phrase is "piqued his interest."
* personal/personnel
** A personal opinion: military personnel should not be forgotten.
* populace/populous
** If the city's populace is missing, you can't say it's very populous.
* pore/pour/poor (Particularly the phrase 'pore over;' one ''never'' pours over a document unless they do a poor job holding onto their coffee mug)
** Since his pores are clogged with dirt and sweat, he pours water on himself to clean up.
** TheGoonShow (an old BBC radio show) actually poked fun at this:
--->Narrator: And all through the night, they poured over the plans. Sometimes they poured on the table, sometimes they poured on the floor, but mostly they poured over the plans.
* portrait/portrayed
* principal/principle
** The school's principal held sacred the principles set forth by the school's founders; the principal one was "knowledge is power."
* precedent/precedence
** Precedent is a statement or action that sets a rule or pattern for later. Precedence means that something takes priority over something else. The young man set a precedent with his wife by staying late at work even though they had a date. His boss had given him a new assignment which took precedence over everything else in his life. (Hint: Precedent affects everything that comes afterwards, something with precedence is more important than everything that came before.)
* prey/pray
** You might pray in a cathedral, but you don't generally prey on people there.
* prescribe/proscribe
** Some doctors are willing to prescribe medical marijuana for patients; the US federal government proscribes any such use.
* psychic/physic (When ''Shakespeare'' wrote "Take physic", he meant a purgative.)
** A psychic will pick you up with mind powers, a physic will pick you up with energizing medicine.
** To make matters worse, within the psychiatric community, "psychic" simply means of or pertaining to the psyche, e.g. "His psychic disposition is that of a manic-depressive with mild schizoid behavior."
* pubic/public
** Never show your pubic area when out in public.
*** Unless you're into exhibitionism.
**** Or have made at least one middling-quality movie or music video, ever.
* quite/quiet
** It was quite obvious that this error is more a typing mistake than a genuine error. Be quiet, the rest of you.
* rein/reign/rain
** After he lost his grasp on the reins, his reign as Coolest Dude on the Ranch came to an end when he fell off his horse in the rain.
* ridged/rigid
** Corrugated iron is both ridged, having ridges all the way along it, and rigid, because it doesn't flop and bend.
* secede/succeed
** The [[DeepSouth Southern states]] ''seceded'' from the USA in 1861. If they had won the US Civil War, their bid at independence would have ''succeeded''.
*** "Succeed" can also mean "to follow another person in an official position," as in, "Queen Elizabeth II succeeded King George VI to the British throne." This can make matters more confusing, in that there have been both wars of ''succession'' and wars of ''secession'' in human history.
* shear/sheer
** It was a sheer accident that caused the aeroplane's wing to shear off.
* shutter/shudder
** He had to suppress a shudder of disgust as he pressed the camera's shutter, recording the details of the murder.
*** "Unfort-t-t-tunat-t-t-tely," his friend stuttered, "you didn't get an image since you failed to realize you had to press the shutter ''release'' to take the pict-t-ture."
* strait/straight
** He was the most strait-laced man I'd ever known, but he could never get his tie on straight, leaving him in dire straits.
** Strait-laced comes from the word's archaic definition, meaning "strict, as in requirements or principles."
** A "strait" is also a geographical feature; specifically, a narrow channel or river that connects two larger bodies of water.
* tact/tack (Hint: The phrase is "Taking a different ''tack''", and refers to the angle of a sailing ship's sails.)
** "Crispin! Adjust the tack, immediately, or it's your turn over the barrel!"
** "Have you no tact, sir?"
* taught/taut/taunt
** Those who have been taught grammar at school tend to taunt those who haven't, creating a taut and tense atmosphere.
* tenet/tenant/Tennant
** It was a tenet of the landlord to never allow his tenants to get away with paying their rent late (except for David Tennant, because the [[DoctorWho Tenth Doctor]] was his favorite).
* than/then
** If there's anything worse than confusing these two words, then I'd like to know what it is.
* there/their/they're
** There they are! Their maps got lost, so they're quite late.
*** There: ''denotes location, usually in the immediate area''
*** Their: ''denotes possession by a group''
*** They're: ''contraction of '''They''' and '''Are''', used in the same manner as the separate pronoun and verb it is composed of''
**However, their maps cannot ''get'' lost. Their maps were lost, or they lost their maps, or their maps got them lost being so badly drawn, but there are very few maps able to get lost on their own. Unless theirs are very rude, or crude, in which case they're told to get lost.
* tic/tick
** He developed a nervous tic after being bitten by a tick.
* to/two/too/2
** I have to admit, I've made a simple mistake or two, but I try not to get too upset about it.
** Example 2: Because he ran too slowly to keep up with his friends, Lyle fell to the two chainsaw-wielding maniacs who were somehow familiar to him.
* verses/versus
** This song has three verses and a chorus. Manchester United versus Liverpool was a draw.
*** And heaven forbid ''conjugating'' "versus", which is popular in some slang. You did not "verse" your friend in that game you played last night, unless the game involved writing poetry.
**** I am utterly '''a'''verse to those types of errors.
* vice/vise
** One of his biggest vices was grabbing people with a vise-like grip when he was scared.
*** In British English, "vice" is used in both senses.
* viscous/vicious
** The sticky, viscous liquid dripped down his back. The vicious thought came into his head "I'll gut those treacle bandits if I ever catch them!"
* voila/viola
** "Voila!" she said, as she finished playing Brahms' Viola Sonata in F minor.
*** Note: In French, ''voilà'' means "see here!" while ''viola'' means "raped!" (as in, "violated")
* waste/waist (as in, "he emerged from the bathroom, with his waist wrapped in a towel, and dropped the tissue in the waste basket.")
** [[{{Borat}} "Excuse me. Where do I puts this?"]]
* where/were/wear/we're
** "Where are you going? Were you invited somewhere? Is that what you plan to wear?" "Relax, mom, we're just going out for pizza. I promise there won't be any werewolves there."
* whet/wet
**The sound of him whetting his sword whetted her curiosity. The bathroom is wet.
*** [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Awwwwww yeah.]]
* which/witch
** "Hey, which version of the story is the one where the witch dies?"
* whose/who's
** Whose fan fic is this? Who's responsible for this crime against the English language?
* your/you're
** Your writing is filled with too many annoying errors. You're getting sloppy!
** Not to be confused with "yore", which are the days of long ago.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rogue/Rouge]]
* The upcoming expansion pack for ''{{City of Heroes}}'' is entitled ''Going '''Rogue!''''' Not "Rouge". Going red is, at this time, reserved for ''City of Villains'' players and Longbow agents.
** We already had to deal with people mispelling the [[strike: Rouge]] [[WretchedHive Rogue Isles]], the setting of ''{{City of Villains}}'' (and name source for the expansion) for years.
** But... But... No! When Going Rogue is released it is ''heroes'' who will be able to go rouge! Villains will go blue. No?
** And now that Sarah Palin has stolen the title for her new book, the confusion is multiplied.
* Rouge was never a member of the {{X-Men}}, but she did [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rouge_admin become an administrator]] on TheOtherWiki.
** And Madame Rouge is a member of the Brotherhood of Evil, enemies of the Doom Patrol.
** Ironically, there are a bunch of fanfics dealing with this issue, in which Rogue finds some of those online errors. Most of them are actually pretty funny. OrSoIHeard.
*** Now I imagine Rouge the Bat cosplaying Rogue, or vice-versa.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in an issue of ''[[UltimateMarvel Ultimate X-men]]'' where Kitty confronts (soon-to-be-ex-)boyfriend Bobby with a love letter he's written to "Rouge".
*** Also intended to be lampshaded in one of Kyle Baker's Marvel published X-Men parodies... but the editor was so used to the writers misspelling her name accidentally, he "fixed" the "mistake", and Rouge was called Rogue in the story as published.
** Originated by a rant from multiply-banned user [[MeaningfulName Irate]] about ROUGE ADNIM VANDLES. Irate is not so much for going back and fixing typos before hitting "submit".
** In ''MADMagazine'', Rouge was one of the Ecch-Men, by the rule of ParodyNames.
** One of the ''Futurama'' comics (which happens to be an Xmen parody) takes advantage of this by giving [[AsianAirhead Amy]] (an equal combination of {{Dojikko}} and TheDitz with elements of TheLibby) the superhero codename "Rouge";
->'''Prof. [[strike: Farnsworth]] F''': Her power is to suck the life out of you. I wanted to call her "Wife Woman" but eventually we stuck with "Rouge" because of her floozy-like appearence.
* Even some '''published''' ''StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse novels refer to "Rouge Squadron".
** Kinda funny if you consider that Rogue Squadron is partly made up of the survivors of Red Squadron from the first Death Star.
***Now ''THAT'' is [[{{Irony}} ironic]].
* In any MMORPG that calls their [[AnAdventurerIsYou stealthy close-combat class]] "rogues", expect to see a lot of people looking for a "rouge" for their group.
** Referenced [[http://www.darklegacycomics.com/41.html here]].
** This Troper once told a (very take-no-crap) female rogue friend he was going to start calling female rogues "Avon Ladies". She threatened to BackStab him in real life.
** Likewise, ''{{World of Warcraft}}'' has an elusive class known as ''furry warriors'', a mispelling of Fury, one of the three talent trees Warriors may specialize in.
*** Though "furry warriors" could also be taken to describe feral druids, who fight in either cat form or bear form.
*** Tauren warriors could also be considered "furry warriors". One of them uses that as a tongue twister in her forum sig ("Furry fury warrior flurried")
** And ''{{EVE online}}'' has Rouge Drones.
*** And rare "fraction items" and long-range "turrents".
** ''Ragnarok Online'' seems to be taking this a step further with their new advanced [[http://ro.doddlercon.com/wiki/index.php?title=Shadow_Chaser Rogue]] class. It's best described as a combat makeup artist.
* Likewise, fans of ''ExterminatusNow'' have so frequently misspelled Rogue's name as "[[SonicTheHedgehog Rouge]]" that it's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] on the webcomic's [[http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/cast.html cast page]].
* The "Rogue" deck in [[http://community.livejournal.com/anime_lj_tcg anime_lj_tcg]], for Haseo from [[DotHack .hack//Roots and .hack//G.U.]], is also misspelled as "Rouge". The admin in charge of making cards has said that it's too much work to redo a deck, so everyone has basically accepted it.
* In an interesting twist, the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' universe has an enemy character who actually ''is'' named Rouge. And yep, people [[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22rogue+the+bat%22&btnG=Google+Search have misspelled it as Rogue]]. You just can't win...
** ARGH, THIS. THIS. THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. THERE IS A GIGANTIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ROGUE (A SCOUNDREL) AND ROUGE (RED IN FRENCH). WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE GET IT. GOD. DAMN... On that note, I frequently substitute for young students as their french teacher, and when I taught the colors of the rainbow, well... things got out of hand. Not one single student spelled Rouge right. Neither did they get "Jeune" (Jaune), "Veeolet" (Violet) or "Blue" (Bleu) right. Although, that last one is usually tricky for younger grades... But still, I'm very fussy about my colors.
** Doesn't help that she is a government spy, aka rogue. Who wears some crazy facial makeup, aka rouge.
*** And then in ''Sonic Riders'' there's the anti-hero trio called the Babylon Rogues. Yep, they get subjected to this as well.
**** What, they managed to spell ''Babylon'' right?
* Similarly, there was a character from late in the ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'' manga named "Rouge"; it was perhaps both karma and inevitable that some FanFic writers would start calling her "Rogue".
* Let's not forget Rouge from ''PowerStone''. This troper has rarely heard her called anything ''but'' Rogue.
* "Rouge boomers" are epidemic in ''BubblegumCrisis'' {{fan fic}}tion. They're supposed to rampage, not apply makeup.
* A friend of this troper wanted to write a FanFic story where pilots in the ''StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse think they're getting assigned to the prestigious Rogue Squadron, but are forming a Rouge Squadron instead. It never panned out, unfortunately.
** Perhaps appropriate in this case, considering that Rogue Squadron was originally named "Red Squadron."
** This reaches truly epidemic levels whenever a new game in the ''Rogue Squadron'' series comes out, as [[http://ign64.ign.com/articles/065/065688p1.html mocked in this article]].
* The old CCG ''Guardians'' featured a "rouge specter". It was not red.
* In ''{{The Order of the Stick}}'' prequel ''On the Origin of [=PCs=]'', Haley Starshine's CV (actually, her character sheet) has her class as "rouge", which DeadpanSnarker Roy points out. She's no cosmetic product, after all.
* The computer game ''Dragonfable'' had so many fan misspellings of their sneaky class that they eventually began in-game references to a character called The Moglin Rouge. Considering [[HurricaneOfPuns the fun its creators have with mind-scarringly bad jokes]], this was kind of inevitable.
** The MMORPG version, ''Adventurequest Worlds'', added a "Rouge Armor" during their Valentine's Day special event. The extremely pink item description reads "'Rouge' Definition: any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips."
* The ''Seiken Densetsu 3'' board on {{GameFAQs}} was subject to this a lot a while ago. The character class of Rogue is too often misspelled as Rouge. Eventually it became a running gag to completely ignore the misspelling and assume that anyone asking about the Rouge job was refering to the super secret, all-powerful (and non-existent) job of another character completely.
* TheOtherWiki has its own cabal of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ROUGE rouge administrators]].
* ''TheNoobComic'' features guild facilities for [[http://www.clichequest.com/index.php?pos=19 Rogues (and Rouges)]].
* A certain faction in ''{{Freelancer}}'' is entitled the Liberty Rogues. Naturally, some ''Freelancer'' forums can't help but discuss the "Liberty Rouges".
* ''SluggyFreelance'' [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060207 teaches the difference.]] Because [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle knowing is half the battle]].
* This is also happens to be a "[[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2004-02-12 touchy subject]]" for the thieves guild in ''{{Nodwick}}''. See also BerserkButton.
* This editor recalls an example where the error wasn't in the spelling, but the outcome fits the trope too well to pass up. When this editor's sister and her friend were playing ''{{Disgaea}}'', they decided to name their thief character "Rouge" (they may even have consulted me as to spelling). However, after hearing the characters' voice, they had a reverse SamusIsAGirl moment. They decided to keep his name as it was, but to pronounce it "Rogue".
* Haschel from ''{{Legend of Dragoon}}'' 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.
* This is something of a BerserkButton for many posters on the official ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' forums.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Angel/Angle & Satan/Satin]]
* "Angle" and "Satin" for "Angel" and "Satan" are infamously common, cheerily deconstructed in [[http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/3580737.html this fanficrants post]].
** Apparently the mistake made it into a homemade tattoo. [[http://bash.org/?459217 Dumbass.]]
* You'd be surprised how many people are convinced that ''FinalFantasyVII's'' Sephiroth was a [[OneWingedAngel One Winged Angle]], and that the [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion pilots]] fight geometry.
** Speaking of which, you'd be surprised how many variations of that name exist. Sometimes done on purpose to circumvent the "each name can only be used once" rule on forums and online games. Hence, Legolaz, Legollas, Llegolasz, ad absurdum.
** And speaking of ''FinalFantasyVII'', who could forget saying "Off course!" when asked if you want to continue at the Arena?
* [[LooneyToons This editor]] recalls with a certain perverse fondness a holy-roller {{troll}} he encountered on a BBS system in the late 1980s, who saw the sinister hand of "Satin[==]ism" everywhere he looked. We all agreed with him that the fabricist conspiracy had thoroughly infiltrated everyday life.
** That holy-roller probably would have had no problem with the woman who bought a "beautiful white Satan wedding dress" (capitalized and everything!) from a bulletin board notice in the library.
* [[http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/cegtxUyMPBjU24NXIhaQeQ?feat=embedwebsite "Satan" for "Santa".]] Of course, this ''is'' a little girl.
** Though there are a lot of unusual similarities between the two. They both live somewhere cold (if [[WordOfDante Dante is to believed]]). They're both responsible for punishing people who were bad. They both wear red. Just saying.
*** "Santa. Kindly old elf, or..."
*** This troper once deconstructed Christmas and Santa such that one could plausibly see them as a Satanic holiday and aspect of Satan (in the [=LaVeyan=] tradition, admittedly)
** Author Robert Rankin plays with this in ''Raiders of the Lost Car Park'', mentioning an urban legend about a dyslexic who sold his soul to Santa. Of course, this being Rankin, it turns out the dyslexic may not have made a mistake after all....
* Print Media Example: This troper remembers an article in the [[http://www.dailyfreepress.com/ Boston University student paper]] entitled "Despite evidence to the contrary, many students still believe in angles". (This is the same paper which headlined its biggest issue of 2000 "BU INS SIXTH STRAIGHT POT".)
* This was made as a pun in Latin, by either by Pope Gregory I, or by Bede. http://www.bartleby.com/81/12158.html
** Those Angles being a tribe inhabiting England (Angle-land...) at the time. ''Non Angli, sed Angeli'', if memory serves.
** Parodied and made a joke on another level when, in ''1066 And All That,'' this was translated as "Not Angels, but ANGLICANS."
** Also parodied in the French series ''{{Kaamelott}}'', set in pseudo-Arthurian Britannia: "And those Angles, they aren't the angles of the map..."
* This troper worked for a time at a grocery store, where a sign once advertised "Angle Soft[[http://www.angelsoft.com/]] toilet paper." Ow.
* The FanTranslation of the DS version of ''Puyo Puyo 15th Anniversary'' has Yu intentionally call Satan "Satin," among other wrong names.
* "Begone, dark angles!" "We will deal with their kind hardly!" -- Menalaus (PoxNora)
* {{WWE}}'s Chris Jericho purposely reversed this one, referring to frequent rival Kurt Angle as "[[MyNameIsNotDurwood Kirk Angel]]."
** Well, he may be ''[[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} curt]]'', but he's no ''angel''...
* But not even Satin could stop [[ChristianHumberReloaded Christian Humber]].
* [[http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4055343 Steve Phillips says the death of a player during the season can derail a locker room and explains how the Angles will try to pull things together.]] Thought I should put the existing error in place in case they fix it eventually. Having your inner grammar wonk activate when reading a story of that nature really breaks the mood.
* Intentionally done in the movie ''Stay Tuned''. Roy is tied up in an underworld version of ''WaynesWorld'', and is given a rebus puzzle of an eyeball, a ship with guns, and a fabric. "Eye... Warship... Satin?"
* Although not techincally this, there is the funny origin of the name for the French Horn. The French first named the horn "Angled Horn", because of, you know, its angle. Ironically, Cor Anglé (angled horn) and Cor Anglais (English Horn) sound exactly the same. The always honorable English, thinking the French had named the instrument in their honor, returned the favor, giving us the French Horn.
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[[folder:Other mistakes]]
* Another favorite is "dest[==]oryed" (or "dest[==]oried") instead of "destroyed". Now ''that's'' what I call a FreudianSlip.
* Not to mention the oh-so-handy product, duck tape...
** To be precise, "duct tape" is the [[http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/ eggcorn]]. "Duck Tape" is both a trademark and the original name of the product, which was made out of cotton duck cloth. It was renamed "duct tape" because people kept mispronouncing and misunderstanding it. The tape itself, ironically enough, was not originally designed for use in ventilation ducts at all; rather, it's believed that "Duck Tape" was first used by the military, to prevent moisture from getting into ammunition containers.
*** However, the term "duct tape" was already in use in writing before the war, and predates any record of the "duck" version. TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape#Etymology discusses this extensively.]]
* A speaker or writer ''implies'' his meaning without outright saying it. His audience ''infers'' what he meant. It's surprising how many people are aware of the two words but manage to confuse them.
* There's a reason [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cannon_%28disambiguation%29 this article]] on "[[{{Canon}} Cannon]]" exists in the ''{{Transformers}}'' Wiki, and it involves this trope...
** In fact, it's much the same reason that on this wiki, we have Pavel ChekovsGun.
** This troper, on the other hand, has gobs of fun when people make that mistake. "Yes, your Shikanaru ship certainly ''does'' belong in cannon. I agree completely."
** The 1981 ''Spider-Man'' cartoon has an interesting case of this in "Can(n)on of Doom", an episode which features both Doctor Doom using a laser cannon for nefarious purposes ''and'' a look into Doom's BackStory. Granting a bit of a stretch on the meaning of the word "canon", there may be some legitimate confusion there. (Any references to a "laser canon", though, are right out.)
*** Speaking of Lazers...
** Incredibly, ''{{QI}}'', of all things, made a similar mistake, misspelling "Cannonball" as "Canonball." Alan was quick to [[LampshadeHanging point this out]]: "they spelt it wrong, they spelt it wrong, points to ''me''! That's some sort of ecclesiastical ball...."
** [[http://nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=061219 This is canon]].
** So is [[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHw9uyj81g this]].
** The pope lays down the [[http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/1635-The%20Cannon%20Law/index.htm cannon law]] in the [[SixteenThirtyTwo 1632 series]].
** ''{{Tsukihime}}'' sees your [[ChristianityIsCatholic canon]] and raises you [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ciel_bfg.png a cannon of canon.]]
*** For any tropers not familiar with Tsukihime, that is a cannon which ''literally'' wipes from existence those things which aren't in the Church's canon. ''SoYeah.''
** This whole sequence is [[GannonBanned CANNON BAN]][[IncrediblyLamePun NED.]]
* It's amazing how much a sentence can change when you forget the L in Clock...
** Especially in the threat "I'm gonna clean your clock."
** Somebody I knew on a forum once made a comment in the forum's IRC channel: "xxxx has an alarm cock" (name removed to protect the guilty); [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]].
** I live near a store named "house of clocks". I'm surprised nobody's vandalized it yet.
** This mistake unsurprisingly shows up in ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'', as Dark grabs the cock from the bedside table.
** This troper lives near a Public Health Library where someone removed the L from "public" on their sign. It's gone unrepaired for several years now.
* The word "climatic" is only likely to be relevant when you're talking about the weather. "Anticlimatic"... is never applicable, period. The word you're probably looking for is "climactic".
** Or, as {{God}} said in ''{{Joan of Arcadia}}'', "It's ''anticlimactic''. Anticlimatic means you're ''against the weather''."
** This editor has claimed to work for the "National Climactic Data Center" more than once. (In fact, at this moment the third result for "climactic" on the google is the National Clima[==]tic Data Center homepage, so I'm not the only one!)
** Somewhat {{Lampshaded}} in an old ''{{Dilbert}}'' strip, in which a non-functioning of a terrarium is correctly referred to as "Anti-climatic" as the gag.
* ''{{Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures}}'' has an annoying, near-systematic tendency to replace the contraction word "have" with "of" after an auxiliary.
** They ''should of'' known better. (I feel dirty now...)
** This is a depressingly common mistake; it comes from mistaking "would've" for a phrase instead of a contraction. It is, however, an uncommonly rewarding mistake to ''correct.'' Many younger writers really have no idea they're doing it wrong and will amend their behavior.
*** Unexpectedly, this can also backfire, and when this troper, a fifth grade teacher, taught "would've" and "should've" and ended up with writings filled with "sort've" and "kind've". You have to give them credit for trying.
** ThisIsUnforgivable when a professional publication suffers from this mistake ''every single time'' the opportunity arises. It should be dead-simple for an editor to flag every instance of "ould of" for manual review.
** Interestingly, a commonly used language assessment tool indicates that "would of" is a regional variant of British English and should be marked as correct. Don't know about non-British English, though.
*** Only if by "Interestingly" you mean something more along the lines of "Depressingly"...
** When it's used in dialogue it can be justified, if the character speaking is being portrayed as less than literate.
* This troper recently read a story where the author obviously intended to call the tight group of nerdy outcast high school students a clique. Instead, he called them a cliché. Which is true, but...
** Similarly, "clique" is very often misspelled as "click", but that doesn't conjure up any funny images so it mostly goes forgotten.
* If I had a dime for every time I've read "It's a mute point anyways" on a message board... GoshdangItToHeck, it's a MOOT point (from moot, which means meeting or gathering, and the point that everyone in the moot agrees on, so there's no use talking about it anymore).
** In British English, "a moot point" has historically meant the opposite: a point that is open to discussion by a moot. However, due to overexposure to American media, most Brits will now use it in the American sense.
* Look up the phrase "a pedal stool" (in quotes) on google and see how many of the results are about glorifying someone by metaphorically placing them on a pedal stool, as opposed to a pedestal. "A peddle stool" and even "a petal stool" are about as common.
* Another interesting FreudianSlip is to mispell "martial arts" as "marital arts". Though if found in some ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'' {{lemon}}s, it can be [[MartialArtsAndCrafts intentional]].
** The reverse is deliberately used in the ''{{Discworld}}'' book ''Discworld/{{Lords and Ladies}}'', in which a soon-to-be-married character accidentally purchases a how-to guide on martial arts....
** Before it was evidently edited, the [[http://pics.livejournal.com/the_dark_cat/pic/0001t7ac last page]] of the CrackFic FanWebComic ''[[http://the-dark-cat.livejournal.com/4001.html Batman and Sons: Rivalry]]'' used this while describing a potential adoptive daughter, which combined with the other adjectives makes for [[http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e232/misterblackpanther3/ba11.jpg that extra bit of horrifying.]]
** It appears in ''[[GrandTheftAuto Grand Theft auto: San Andreas]]'', on the billboard of a usable gym in San Fierro. Easy mistake to make but [[RefugeInAudacity since this is this]] ''[[RefugeInAudacity GTA]]''...
* Any common phrase more obviously derived/lifted from other languages gets this treatment, especially when it's spoken more often than written. "Per se" is often spelled "per say" for this reason.
* Sorted/sordid. Ex.: [[http://rightofthepeople.org/archive/aclu_.htm "THE ACLU HAS A SORTED PAST READ SOME SHAMELESS FACTS"]]. It really gives the message that extra weight of Trufax.
* A correspondent in a UK newspaper wrote that a friend emailed him "They've caught the Washington Snipper!" A ''rogue'' rouge stylist?
** This troper had a girl in her English class mispronounce "sniper" as "snipper". After being corrected, ''she continued to pronounce it that way!''
*** To be fair, this troper has the same difficulty with existing words that sound very similar -- she consistently pronounces "prejudice" as "prejustice", "specific" as "pacific", etc., much to the irritation of everyone including herself. She ''knows'' they're different words, they just come out wrong!
* This troper has often come across the phrase (both spoken and written) "for all ''intensive'' purposes". Though this might be excusable if one is speaking of a particular hospital ward.
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!!!Examples from specific media

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Best television subtitle ever: while watching the first episode of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'', I was very surprised to see Yami declare "Exodia, post-literate!"
** How on Earth do you go from "obliterate" to "post-literate"?!
* The French translation of the ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'' manga isn't very good overall, but there are some mistakes that are plain unforgivable for a published work. Like how Happōsai is repeatedly called a "satire" (same word as in English) instead of a "satyre" (French for "satyr", i.e. DirtyOldMan).
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[[folder:Comics]]
* A comic by K.C. Green (this troper thinks it's ''Droop'', recently renamed ''Bee Power'') featured a character named Uppercut Ted, named because Green's spell-check didn't recognize the word "uppercutted" and suggested he replace it with "uppercut ted".
** That's because the past-tense of cut is ''cut'', not ''cutted'', and any compound word based on it will has the same form. The past tense of uppercut is uppercut. (Though technically uppercut is a noun, not a verb, so it should be written as "delivered an uppercut" or some similar thing.)
** The same is true for "cast" and derivatives like "broadcast" and "re-cast" (to cast again) It's not "Broadcasted", "casted", or "re-casted".
* In one ''GetFuzzy'' comic (this also applies to the Satin/Satan entry above), Bucky is examining a package of new underwear and saying that they were "made by Satan". Rob corrects him, telling him they were "made of satin". Cue remark from Satchel regarding [[IncrediblyLamePun hot pants.]]
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* There was a {{lemon}} where every instance of "erection" had turned into "eructa[==]tion".
** And another where every instance of the word "ministration" had turned into "menstruation".
** And the word "organism" shows up far more often than the language calls for in any scene referencing sexual climax.
** It's not just spelling mistakes, either. People who hope to write sex scenes should be disallowed any access to a thesaurus -- thus sparing the readers any usage of terms such as "tumescence."
*** Or "turgid" for that matter.
*** I never want to see "inflamed" in a lemon again unless it's meant to suggest that the person has an STD.
**** By extension, I never want to see "inflamed" in a lemon again.
* Tara Gilesbie's ''MyImmortal'', in which about one in six words is misspelled; "eructation" for "erection", "orgy" for "orgasm".
** That last one is more a case of misplaced abbreviation. Also, masticating for masturbating. In the other direction (that is, not obscene to obscene), "shit" for "sit". ''Twice.''
** Even funnier when you learn that "eructate" means burp.
** "Mystery of Magic Cornelia Fuck" is a particularly hilarious one.
* 99% of the occurrences of "defiantly" in fanfiction are due to "defin'''a'''tely" (a common mispelling of "defin'''i'''tely") being auto-corrected.
** This one is so prevalent, there is a [[http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/ website]] (and line of merchandise including coffee mugs and thong underwear) dedicated to the correct spelling.
*** This troper frequents a forum which filters "defina[==]tely" to "definitely {spelled with an I not an A}"
*** And prim'''a'''tive instead of prim'''i'''tive.
* The SoBadItsHorrible {{Crossover}} {{Fanfic}} ''TheRangersOfNIMH'' has a lot of this. The opening line is a stunning example: "The Ranger's where flowing a leaded of break-ins." And that's the ''least'' of its troubles.
* This troper will never forget, no matter how hard she tries, the fanfic that included the line "She rested her chin genitally on his shoulder."
* The otherwise SoCoolItsAwesome fics ''{{FanFic/Shinji and Warhammer 40K}}'' and ''FanFic/TheOpenDoor'' are marred by this.
* The [[StealthParody is-it-real-or-not]] fic ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk9QYnVw6oc Half-Life: Fulllife Consequences]]'' has the protagonist ''wet'' on a platform on his way to fight zombie ''goasts'', whatever they may be, in ''Ravenholdm''.
** And normal people ''close'' because he was in his office lab coat.
** Hey, whether people get wet on platforms is none of anybody else's business...
** But it's okay as long as ''the countrysides were nice, and the plants were singing and the birds and the sun were almost down from the top of the sky''
** Too bad that Ravenholdm was no longer [[BillNyeTheScienceGuy nye]] because the pants were dead and the ground was bloody from headcrabs.
** At least he ''axed'' nicely.
** Better ''goasts'' than ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel goatses]]''
* The folks at Eyrie Productions Unlimited took a random misspelling in their story development chat channel and turned it to a CrowningMomentOfFunny in ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/lt.txt Last Transport]],'' an ''FanFic/UndocumentedFeatures'' story focusing on Supergirl and the TeenTitans: In an IRC session between Kara Zor-El and several Titans, Kid Flash (whose typing has been shown to be rather... spastic) interrogates her about her Kryptonian powers:
--> but yo uhave heat vision?\\
I haven't tried it, but I guess I must.\\
awesome. i don.t have any attack pwoers. I just hit things with my nads at housand times a secnod\\
\\
When she was able to stop laughing and focus on the screen again, Kara composed herself and typed only,\\
\\
... sounds painful.\\
* Cyborg DIES\\
SNRK\\
... cant... breathe\\
HANDS HANDS JEEZ\\
you have to excuse Flash. he types faster than he can think\\
* batgirl has joined channel #Titans\\
yo guys. whats up?\\
Wally was just telling us about a new combat move he invented.\\
yes, tell her about it, Wally\\
i htae you all
* The StealthParody fanfic ''[[Fanfic/DoomRepercussionsOfEvil Doom: Repercussions of Evil]]'' is naturally full of these.
* For one brief shining moment before the author [[OldShame deleted it in shame]], there was a ''{{Redwall}}'' fanfic which persistently referred to Martin the Warrior as ''"Martian the Warrior"''.
* There is a ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer[=/=]FullmetalAlchemist'' crossover in which Major Armstrong is accused of being an [[MrExposition "expositionist"]] after one of his [[ShirtlessScene shirt-busting episodes]].
* ''MetalGear'' fanfiction is full of "soli[==]ders." Now, three characters in the series are named after states of matter, but it's doubtful that's what the authors are referring to.
* Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami often has this problem, expecially in Dark's fight with Blud in Chapter 13. ("BUT NOW YOU WILL DIET!"). The author has several recurring mistakes, like writing "pies" instead of "piece" ("[[ObligatorySwearing Die you pies of shit]]!") and putting "fort" instead of "thought". ("[[GratuitousFrench I fortez je was mort]]!"
* In LadyJaida and Rave's epic series ''The Shoebox Project'', Remus Lupin is portrayed as a grammatical fanatic who constantly corrects his friends' extreme abuse of the comma, apostrophe, and other such punctuation marks. Sirius Black is shown to be the worst offender, prompting Remus to stop in the middle of several conversations/letters in order to chide his friend about this.
**''Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do. I do.''
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[[folder:Films]]
* In ''HotFuzz'', the local newspaper is extremely prone to this. [[spoiler: The town council eventually kills the editor for this]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Dor of the ''{{Xanth}}'' novels has ''legendary'' horrible spelling. This was taken advantage of when his king wanted him to travel with ''honesty'', knowing he'd misspell it as ''ONESTI'' which was the actual name of the place they were headed. His misspelling also physically changed a ''bouquet'' into a ''bucket'', much to everyone's amusement/frustration. When he sought out a spelling bee to correct his homework, he wound up with something along the lines of... "Eye want two go two Mundania sow eye Khan sea a bare oar a hoarse..." Well, not that bad. But pretty close.
** No, it ''really'' was that bad.
* ''{{The Legend of Rah and the Muggles}}'' features a few, which should come as no surprise. There's mention of a bright star ''shin[==]ning'' in the sky (the fact that this references a period in the BackStory when there wouldn't have been any bright stars in the sky, shinning or otherwise, comes under [[FridgeLogic another trope]]) and a ''din[==]ning'' room (clearly they're very noisy eaters).
** This troper has seen a "Din[==]ning Room" sign in real life.
*** Not a sign, precisely, but a block of wood on one of the "din[==]ning" room's windowsills, yes.
* Not even the TheBible is immune to this trope. In one 1530 edition, "Azazel" (an actual Rogue Angel of Satan) was mistaken for "ez ozel", Hebrew for "goat that departs", and translated accordingly. The result entered our lexicon as the modern word "scapegoat".
** The interchangeability of "for Azazel" and "as a scapegoat" in Hebrew might be more closely related to said wilderness/demon's function as receiver of goats before typo intervention -- early translations of Leviticus 16:8-10 use the phrase "two goats... one for the LORD and one for Azazel." More amusingly, Azazel is credited with the invention of makeup in the Books of Enoch: the original rouge angel.
* This troper read the entirety of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' "trilogy" (twice) thinking one of the main character's names was Ford "Perfect".
** You are not alone. Douglas Adams writing in an introduction to a complete edition of ''Hitch Hiker's'' (to spell it as it's printed on my copy), relates "This was a joke that missed American audiences entirely of course, since they had never heard of the rather oddly-named car, and many thought it was a typing error for Perfect."
* ''{{A Song of Ice and Fire}}'' shows a raven eating an egg, picking out bits of "white and yoke".
* Intentionally invoked by the writers of ''Going Rouge: An American Nightmare'', a collection of critical essays about Sarah Palin, referencing the title of her memoir, ''Going Rogue: An American Life''. Not only will the two books be released on the same date, but a ''second'' "Going Rouge"--subtitled "The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book"--is also scheduled for that release date.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In ''[[{{MASH}} M*A*S*H]]'':
-->'''Patient:''' You must be a psychic!\\
'''Hawkeye:''' No, I'm a physic; I can predict all your future movements.
* In a way, an episode of ''CornerGas'' lampshades this trope: when confronted with a badly-spelled newspaper headline (which reads "HANK IS PHYCIC"), Wanda dryly cracks a joke about buying a spellchecker. Brent then follows this up by saying that he's going to continue reading, and that the story is "contunied on page 30".
** In another episode, Karen says that the criminal Davis caught was barely a thief. Cue the SpinningPaper, which inverts two letters in "Cop Nabs Barley Thief".
* During one of Jon Stewart's standup routines (taking place at RIT in 2005), the transcriber typing words for the hearing-impaired in the audience spelled "ate" like the number. The track when it occurs is even named that on the recording.
** No doubt this is because of the marvelous capacity of stenographer's typewriters to make any spelling error into a catastrophic one. This troper recalls the captions on a national news program talking about a special meeting of Congress held in order to prevent the economy from going into a "rekregz". Not to mention the union negotiations with the "Chris Ler" auto company and the poor female soldiers who were attacked in their "bare access".
** The Moment of Zen portion of the ''DailyShow'' highlighted a ''spoken word'' version of this, when a newscaster called Sarah Palin's memoir "Going Rouge".
* Mocked in an episode of ''{{Friends}}'' where Rachel tries to write a romance novel. Her attempts are derailed when the male lead is mocked for pulling out his "big throbbing pens".
***Ross: "I don't want to be around when he starts writing with those!"
** ... or fondling "her heaving beasts"...
*** ... which, by the way, is where you can find a "niffle"...
*** That sounds even funnier if you've read ''{{Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}'', because in that book, there are some beasts called nifflers.
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[[folder:New Media]]
* [[http://qdb.us/97707 This quote]] and [[http://www.bash.org/?459217 this one]] from QDB are amusing.
* Three words: [[http://super-smash-bros.wikia.com/wiki/Tires_don_exits Tires don exits]].
* There used to be a spoof website for a company named ''Games Wor[==]ksop''. Unfortunately, it seems to have been removed -- all that turns up on a search for "Games Wor[==]ksop" on Google is 2000 misspelled pages...
* [[http://www.quizilla.com/index.php Quizilla]] does ''not'' have a spellchecker, apparently; but users seem to like using external or in-browser ones, resulting in things like "Does your best friend have fillings for you?"
** Well, if you happen to be best friends with your dentist....
* This troper remembers seeing frantic messages ejaculated all over GameFAQs asking for help with "Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Mammaries". Now that image is permanently engraved in her head.
* This troper saw the following comment on an art site: "I laughed so hard I nearly snorted cock out of my nose." An epic [[FreudianSlip Freudian slip]] if I ever saw one. It was followed seconds later by this posting from the same author: "COKE, GOD DAMMIT!"
* A scoundrel at [[http://www.shortandhappy.com shortandhappy.com]] used to go out into chatrooms pretending to be a 14-year-old girl named "Amber" looking to cyber, mess with the head of whichever poor chap engaged him, and post the results on his website. One such "client" had the unlucky username of [[http://www.shortandhappy.com/amber/amberchatlog025.htm dragon_worrier2001]]... And the jokes just wrote themselves.
** [[HarryPotter Never worry a sleeping dragon]].
* [[http://www.isbarackobamamuslin.com/ "Is Barack Obama Muslin?"]]
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[[folder:Poetry]]
* Thoroughly, ''thoroughly'' mocked by Taylor Mali's poem [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ "The The Impotence of Proofreading"]] ("Has this ever happened to you? You work very, very hoard on a paper for English clash, and still get a very glow raid on it, like a D or even a D=...")
* [[http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/martha-snow.html Eye halve a spelling chequer...]]
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[[folder:Print Media]]
* Roughly 75% of the "Headlines" segment on ''TheTonightShow'' consists of '''newspaper articles''' with ludicrously bad errors of some form or another (the other 25% being mere poor judgment). To reiterate, these are professional journalists.
** Though there is no actual accreditation to be a journalist, which is probably part of why article quality is so often so very low.
* A scientific journal made reference to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider Large Hardon Collider]]. HoYay for particle physicists!
** [[http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22large+hardon+collider%22&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search It's not that uncommon.]]
*** [[http://lurkmore.ru/images/c/c7/Lhc_hardon.jpg I have a hardon for this hadron!]] (NSFW)
*** It's inverted in this [[http://www.splitreason.com/product/538 T-shirt]]
** Anyone [[ParallelPornTitles getting any ideas here]]?... Especially the part about how this Large Hardon Collider is being used to search for very rare and unusual bosoms...
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[[folder:Sports]]
* A note for those of you who share this troper's love of sports message boards: Johan Santana is "dominant". Tim Tebow is "dominant". [=LeBron=] James is "dominant". None of them are "dominate". They do frequently "dominate" the competition. But no-one is a "dominate player".
** Hey, who are you to question the sexual orientation of sportsmen?
*** ''It's still not an adjective!''
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* White Wolf TabletopGames books are notorious for not having the best copyeditors in the world, meaning first editions have some... problems. ''Requiem For Rome'' both uses "angles" for "angels" and calls Jesus the "Song of God" on the ''same page''.
** It's worth noting, though, that a very large percentage of mistakes in more recent White Wolf books can be traced back to the editor service that the company uses (Scribendi). There are several documented cases of errors being ''inserted into the books by the editors themselves''. ''Requiem For Rome'' is one of the more commonly-cited cases, as is ''Saturnine Night'' from the Promethean line. Some of the PDF supplements use someone else for editing and the difference in quality is plainly visible.
* More likely a case of bad editing while replacing the term "Mage", but many entries in TSR's ''Encyclopedia Magica'' refer to people taking points of "dawizard", or something about "iwizards". ''Find & Replace is not always your friend.'' [[http://noises.mooncalf.org/2000_12_01_archival.html#1726931]]
** So da mage and da wizard were walking down the street...
** [=iWonder=] how much memory the [=iWizard=] will have when it's published. [=iMean=], you can hardly cram a single fireball in 1 gig of RAM, right?
*** I don't think an [=iWizard=] is a very good idea. At least, some of them aren't going to work. The book specifically talks about a Silent [=iWizard=].
* In one entry in an early Monster Manual the incidence of a beastie being at home was referred to as ' % liar '
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* One ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' video game was released shortly after Upper Deck changed all "Magic" cards to "Spell" cards. The programmers obviously did a mass replace, ignoring card names -- but that means there's many cards that enhance the mysterious "Dark Spellian".
* One popular song from ''{{Touhou}}'' is called "Septette for the Dead Princess". This is the name given on many, many websites (including all {{Youtube}} videos of the song), meaning apparently no-one in the English-speaking fanbase ever thought to look up the spelling of the word "Septet". (Admittedly, this was originally ZUN's mistake. But come on, people.)
** Unless ZUN [[WordOfGod provided the official English translation for all the song names]], this falls squarely on the shoulders of someone in the fan community (that being said, "septette" is apparently an accepted alternate spelling). See also "The Doll-Maker of Bucuresti", which properly interpretted what the Japanese ブクレシュティ should be Romanized as, but failed to acknowledge that such a spelling is only valid if the rest of the title were also in Romanian. It's spelled "Bucharest" in English.
*** However, "Sakura Sakura ~ '''Japanize''' Dream" is ZUN's fault (unless he really did mean "making [the dream?] like Japan").
* The battle arena in FinalFantasyVII has two options after each battle: "Off course" and "No way". "Off course" was supposed to be "Of Course", but the symbolic meaning is more clear considering this is the game with the Gold Saucer.
* In ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Football 2008]]'', the instructions are filled with spelling errors.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Even webcomics as professional as ''{{PvP}}'' [[http://www.pvponline.com/1998/08/21/fri-aug-21/ fall victim sometimes]] (panel four).
* "break" used for "brake" in ''{{Misfile}}'' [[http://www.misfile.com/?page=1268 here]].
** It's apparently been corrected.
* [[http://www.inktank.com/ Barry T. Smith]] frequently falls victim to this (though he usually corrects the mistakes when they get pointed out on the forums); he's admitted that this is due to a mixture of [[strike:lysdexia]] [[strike:dailysex]] poor spelling ability, and spellchecker failure.
* Used for a punchline in ''Questionable Content'' [[#360]].
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* This troper recalls coming across a piece of original fiction on the Net several years ago where he immediately determined the author had changed his main character's name from "Eric" to "David" with an unconditional global replace upon coming across a reference to "the United States of [=AmDavida=]".
** "Original"? Unlikely. An unconditional global replace like that hints at ''PLAGIARISM!!!''
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in PaulRobinson's ''{{Instrument of God}}'' where the story mentions that when 246 is holding up a copy of a law, he is holding an "ordinance", but when he is referring to weapons, they are "ordnance".
* An amusing depiction of the Cupertino Effect, a character called [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/jeff-uses-spellcheckar.php "Jeff K!!!!"]] who attempts to spellcheck his aggressively incorrect English.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* [[{{Sealab2021}} Respek Knuckles!]]
* The ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid" ends with Fry defeating the Brainspawn by writing a book full of misspelled words and {{Plot Hole}}s, sending the aliens back to their home planet "for no raisin".
* "The Adventures of Letterman", an animated segment of ''TheElectricCompany,'' played with these kinds of errors ("feet" for "feat", among many other misspellings).
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Any amusing personal examples should be in [[TroperTales/RougeAnglesOfSatin Troper Tales]].
* The nephew of FrancisFordCoppola is named Nicolas Cage, not Nicholas with an h. Repeatedly seen on this very wiki.
* In real life, a major railroad ordered a sign cut in granite for their national headquarters. The Norfolk Southern Corporation had to wait several weeks after unveiling the sign indicating it was the headquarters of "The Norfork Southern Corporation." (An associate of this troper sardonically stated if the sign writer had indicated a lot of people's opinion of the railroad it would have read "The Norfuck Southern Corporation.")
* Subverted with the best slogan ever seen on a T-shirt: "Your retarded"
* When decoded, the messages left by the Zodiac Killer have [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Zodiac_cipher.png spelling]] that would put [[FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences squirrelking]] to shame ("hunting wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal" certainly comes to mind). Though the lack of punctuation is likely because he didn't bother putting them through the cipher, the rest is just ridiculous.
** [[EpilepticTrees Maybe Squirrelking IS the Zodiac Killer]]?
** And ironically, it kept professional codebreakers busy for ages, because they didn't think of the possibility of spelling errors (or that bit of random gibberish at the end), and kept assuming that the code was far more sophisticated than it actually was. It took some amateurs to finally break it.
* [[PotatoBucket This Troper]] recently read a news article where a group of people were rallying to change the rules of the ''National Spelling Bee Championships''(!!!) so that commonly misspelled words would be ruled acceptable. He thinks that the very idea is silly, as correct spelling is a hallmark of the championships.
** This has been put into practice in Germany on a large scale, where the Neue Rechtschreibung (New Orthography) has incorporated many common errors and made them the proper spelling, supposedly to make learning German easier on children and immigrants alike -- causing a lot of frustration for those of us who paid attention in class the first time around and are now punished for it. This has resulted in a state of affairs where nobody really knows how anything is spelled anymore and mostly just guesses.
*** Because the pronounciation of words changes over time, changing the spelling of those words to make it somehow logical is only a reasonable step. Because of various spelling upgrades, including the last one, you can deduce the pronounciation from the way it's spelled very accuratly and vice versa. Just look at the French what happens if you never update your spelling.
* In Danny Wallace's autobiographical book ''FriendsLikeThese'', he sends a text about how he's hanging out with "a hardcore German raper". Guess which word should have had an extra P in it.
* [[http://serpent231.tripod.com/testjoke.txt This site]] with many actual[---[[[{{Wikipedia}} citation needed]]]---] answers 6th graders gave on tests, is full of this, as well as CriticalResearchFailure, CaptainObvious and YouFailLogicForever. One especially noteworthy example is "Cyrus [=McCormick=] invented the [=McCormick=] '''raper''', which did the work of a hundred men.
** This list is utterly hilarious:
--->Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
* Lee Harvey Oswald's spelling, as seen in his personal journals, was notorious for its errors.
* {{Engrish}}, in all its special, special glory.
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