History Main / MisspellingOutLoud

* In WesternAnimation/InsideOut, when Bing-Bong tries to read the warning above a door:

* ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'': Wash does this to explain what had happened to his wife, while his young son was within earshot...

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** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaMoMonkeyMoProblems Mo' Monkey, Mo' Problems]]", after spelling "anonymous" as "ugnonymous" on paper, Sugar gets into the confessional to declare the spelling error is irrelevant. She proceeds to declare her joy that "Ella is, G-A-W-N, gone!"

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[[caption-width-right:350:Not "Misspelling Out Loud" but still making noise. "Problems? With drugs we can help you"]]

* In ''Love and Death'', Boris realizes how to avoid being sentenced to death:

Someone has to spell a word out loud, for the sake of clarity, [[SpellingForEmphasis for emphasis]], for CensorshipBySpelling, or because they're in a SpellingBee, and they make an elementary spelling mistake or even spell a different word entirely. The reason can range from being [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate]] to dyslexic, all the way to being able to read just fine but having never seen the word in written form. If it's the latter, this usually reflects [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny attentiveness]], and if it's either of the former it [[TheDitz reflects negatively on the character's intelligence]]. In the case of spelling bees, though, sometimes the child actually knows the correct spelling and would not normally spell such a word incorrectly but is [[ThrowingTheFight intentionally losing the bee]] because they're sick of their parents putting such immense undue pressure on them at their age.

Someone has to spell a word out loud, for the sake of clarity, [[SpellingForEmphasis for emphasis]], for CensorshipBySpelling, or because they're in a SpellingBee, and they make an elementary spelling mistake or even spell a different word entirely. This generally [[TheDitz reflects negatively on the character's intelligence]] or [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny attentiveness]]; in the case of spelling bees, though, sometimes the child actually knows the correct spelling and would not normally spell such a word incorrectly but is [[ThrowingTheFight intentionally losing the bee]] because they're sick of their parents putting such immense undue pressure on them at their age.

In English, these common spelling mistakes include inserting a spurious silent E, changing a hard S to a Z, or almost any of the mangled spellings whose deliberate use is described under XtremeKoolLetterz.

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--->''"S" is for [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage "shiksa"]]: S-H-I... uh... I think [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar there's a "T" in there somewhere]].''

->''"All I need to know how to spell is 'Kill." K-Y-Y-Y-L."''
-->-- A Houk mook from ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''

* ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'':

* In ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'', the goose's habit of repeating herself results in spelling "Terrific" as "Teerrrriiffiicccc". Charlotte is not amused at the idea of writing out 17 letters in her web.

* ''Literature/{{Ratburger}}'' has Sheila saying to her stepdaughter Zoe, "YouAreGrounded! You here me? G-R-O-N-D-E-D!". When Zoe points out that "grounded" is meant to have a "U", Sheila just denies it.

** The Brain is knocked out in the first round of the spelling bee when he spells 'fear' F-E-R-E. ([[JustifiedTrope It's strongly implied he spent more time teaching himself programming than studying for the spelling bee.]])

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Dale tries to bring up the line that "Ford" stands for "fix or repair daily", but screws up an uses a similar line for a different brand.