spelling

Whether English is your first language or not, people still have an extremely hard time navigating the finer points of spelling and wordology. These blunderous foibles of the English language drive home the fact that a one-letter mistake can mean a whole lot of difference, and even spelling something phonetically can lead to catastrophically regrettable spelling fails. 

It's far too easy to take for granted just how strangely spelled some of the words in the English language are. The weird spellings themselves can end up making for quite the hassle for when it comes time to actually say the words out loud. Seriously though, have we just accepted that desert and dessert are actually spelled wrong? 

We're not exactly as literate a society as we'd like to be, so we end up birthing a whole lot of regrettable and dumb spelling fails. On one hand, spelling is hard. On the other hand, people are out here misspelling words that have almost no right to be as misspelled as they are. People get creative with their spelling fails.

There are a whole lot of words out there, and spelling them all correctly can be a challenge. Not only that, sometimes people just say "screw it" and come up with their own dumb and creative ways to spell things. At least they're confident about it? It results in a whole lot of regrettable and dumb spelling failures.

No one is born good at spelling. It's a skill, and it takes time to cultivate your own vocabulary. But also holy crap people are bad at spelling. The world has much more than its fair share of dumb and creative spelling fails lurking about. It's one big party full of regrettable and dumb spelling fails.

Tattoos can be tricky business. One typo or slip of the hand can have someone wearing "I love moom" on their bicep for the rest of their life. Tattoo artists take multiple precautions to idiot-proof the process, but we still end up with tattoo choices that have people asking questions. Sometimes the customers themselves are uncontrollable, like in the case of this male Karen who didn't believe a tattoo shop owner.

Spelling can be challenging, but there's sort of a base level that most of us should be comfortable with by now. That's not the case. We see spelling fails all the time. The really good ones are when people homebrew their own creative spelling of a popular phrase. No, it doesn't make sense to suffer from day jaw food, but that's just how regrettable and dumb spelling fails go.

Everyone makes spelling mistakes, but sometimes that mistake is so blatant or so far off the mark that a spelling fail can leave us emotionally robbed. It's a race to see who can ignore what words mean and just say whatever seems to make sense at the time. It's hard to look away from such creative misspellings and embarrassing spelling fails.

School wasn't fun for any of us, but in the long run it can pay to know how to spell really basic stuff and not look like a moron in public. On a daily basis, people come in contact with a lot of spelling fails that make us curse our education system. At least spelling fails make someone feel smart.

Designing things is hard, and people aren't very good at it. Whether it's an accidentally creepy sign or some painful looking stairs, we make things that probably could have used some extra input. This world is full of design failures that were someone's fault. For some more professional buffoonery, here are some "you had one job" moments of occupational incompetence.

Spelling is a skill, and enough time without practice can lead people down some weird rabbit holes of how letters are supposed to fit together. Sometimes watching someone write out their thoughts is enough to realize that they don't have a terrific grasp on what words mean. Either way, in life we come across a lot of spelling fails that deserve a harsh sentence.

Just cause you want something to be spelled a certain way doesn't mean it's actually spelled that way. It's something many creators of spelling fails never seem to learn. In this case she went and doubled down rather than deferring to the whole world telling her that there's no "P" in "Hamster." Is that the hill anyone wants to die on?

The English language has some confusing peculiarities to it that result in English struggles, but heck, most languages have some phonetic and semantic weirdness winding through them. And English isn't the only strange language. Here's a post defending the English language and how it's not the only weird language out there.

You'd think that living in a world with so much written communication would push people toward being better at spelling, but that's 100% not the case. We all still manage to mangle words up nice on a daily basis, producing some embarrassing, dumb and creative misspellings in the process.

You can't sit down and make everyone spell the way you'd like them to, so you're just kind of left with seeing the mistakes where they arise and laughing about them when you can. Who knows what the cause is for all of these spelling fails. It could be public schools, sheer ignorance, aggressive autocorrect or a combination of all three.