Jul 25, 2008

today's orthography links

1. Sucks to misspell your own name. Suck doubly if you're a newspaper, and infinitely if you blow it on the front page. It's one step below "The Tmise regrets the error." At least they didn't spell it "Noose." [Via Matt Welch]

2. If you misspell Obama's name, what kind of websites come up? Why didn't somebody think of this sooner?

3. The Scrabulous / Scrabble battle brings out the spelling puns.

4. Portuguese spelling is now standardized.

5. Korean prof says, we can't let the Japanese take our island. Step one: let's all spell its name the same way.

6. Miss Spelling--Tori--is writing another book. This one, titled Mommywood, at least doesn't misspell the word "Story."

7. It's "Myers." Why do almost all of his critics spell his name wrong?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/12/99-grammar/

Jim Anderson said...

Captain, sir, grammar and orthography are not the same thing. I suppose that the act of pointing this out is highly ironic.

Anonymous said...

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/03/50-irony/