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Human beings are nothing if not creative, and we have an eye for the particular. Thanks to the fluid, ever-evolving nature of language, and the systems of meaning pre-built into context, our brains are able to word better than words can even word themselves. And because of that, sometimes a patch of words hits you in just the right way, like a spicy rare insult  or a funny tweet or tumblr gem where you go "alright I bet no one ever said that before."

Little did you know that all your day was lacking was a quick and educational exploration of the world of ambigrams. They're a whole lot of fun. 

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.

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.

Sometimes we can't tell if we love or hate puns. Depending on who you ask, they're either created by geniuses or monsters, but they can definitely be overwhelming, like this sign's pun game that is too strong. Sometimes you just need some puns to satisfy those wordplay cravings.

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.

Somewhere along the way, classic idioms and sayings with two parts got shortened to the first one, and everyone's just been using them wrong for a while. Tumblr gets itself into spirals of informative weirdness, like this Tumblr thread that actually makes history fun.

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.

Puns may be the simplest form of humor, but sometimes simple things are great. Are puns sometimes teeth-chatteringly painful to read? Absolutely. But sometimes they're really clever. These ones can be a mixed bag. For another kind of bag of dad jokes, here's another sackful of puns to spill all over.

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.

Sure there are some words that are consistently difficult to spell, but there are some obvious spelling fails that feel like a kick in the dictionary. Sometimes people's made up spellings sort of make sense. Usually they don't. These are spelling fails that deserve a harsh sentence.

Not only are words hard to spell, sometimes they're also hard to think of. For example, there are times when you can picture the image of a woodpecker in your head but the only thing that comes out is "jackhammer bird." When someone can't think of how to spell "spaghetti" they get extremely creative and come up with misspellings that feel like a kick in the dictionary.

You don't have to be good at spelling to communicate the right idea, but sometimes spelling fails make us question public schools. Some words are big and notoriously hard to spell, but sometimes someone misspells something so simple, so incorrectly it makes you want to want to kick them directly in the pneis. Here are some more spelling fails that feel like a kick in the dictionary.