OT: Top 10 Mispellings of "subscribe"

Whistle
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People subscribe to the newsletter by putting the word “subscribe” in the subject box of email to me. It’s a good thing I look at these myself and don’t have the computer subscribe automatically. I’ve collected the following alternate spellings of “subscribe”:

  1. subcribe
  2. suscribe
  3. sucrscribe
    4 sucscribe (this one sucks, as the young people say)
  4. subscreib (mostly from Germany)
  5. cubscibe (you think I’m making it up. I’m not. I had to email them back to find out what they wanted.)
  6. surbscribe
  7. Serbia (Ok, I made THIS one up).
  8. Subscripe (Holy 'Cripe, Batman!)
  9. Seirbhscibith (Irish? Probably someone’s idea of a joke.)

Dale)

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Hmm. I’ve been collecting misspellings of my name. (The work of a lifetime, you might say.)

Once, to liven up a particularly awful job, I would deliberately NOT spell it for people just to see what came back in through the mail.

The very strangest one was “Margie Pete.”

Mahr-gue-(“Never call me ‘Maggie’”)-reet

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No “subscript” or “superscript” ?

Now I wonder what I sent to, uh, enlist.

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Interesting, too, that it’s just bad typing and nothing howlingly Freudian. (Unless I’m particularly dense tonight!)

M

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Hey, Dale, at least you’re not asking anyone to spell organism.

:slight_smile: Jef

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I think the individuals who used #6 were partaking of something… I mean, cubscibe??? Even I, who have on occasion been linked with deviating from the Proper and the Norm, can’t come up with the reasons for that one!! :laughing:

Andrea ~*~

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Here’s a good way to let people know how to unsubscribe…

How To Unsubscribe

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Please remember that this is the only way we will accept for you to
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follow the above directions closely.

ummm, down here dear, ya hear!

To unsubscribe, send an email to: [insert list unsubbing instructions here]

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Now then let me say this about that. As probably the worst speller in the community its with great pride that I speak of my good catholic upbringing and the perticular style of fonetic spelling I was raised with. Ridicule will not make up for your lack of decyferability of a perfectly good form of the written language. In fact the sounding out method of visual comunication is far suppearior, IMHO to all the silent es and js and cs and long vouls and dirty commey tricks the english language tries to play on us hapless victoms of birth. Plus this key board keeps changing keys on me all the time.And now Im wriddled with doubt (see why do ya need that lousy b in there) because I dont know (and why cant it be no, I mean you know what I mean) how I spelled subscribe in my email. This is why we become psycotic (sikotic).

Tom

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On 2002-12-10 21:12, mvhplank wrote:
Hmm. I’ve been collecting misspellings of my name. (The work of a lifetime, you might say.)

Once, to liven up a particularly awful job, I would deliberately NOT spell it for people just to see what came back in through the mail.

The very strangest one was “Margie Pete.”

Mahr-gue-(“Never call me ‘Maggie’”)-reet
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No one ever gets my name right. When I was a kid, I learned to answer to “Andrea,” “Andra,” “Audra,” “Audi,” and even “Andre.” The misspellings are even more comical…I even have a motel VIP card sent to me in the name of “Auey” (how they got that, I have no idea). My surname, by contrast, should be easy…I carefully spell it for people and tell them “it’s like the coin” (or “the metal” if I’m talking to someone from out of the country), but it still gets spelled Nichols, Nichol, Nikkel, Nikkell, Nickles, Nickle and Nickels (FWIW, it’s “Audrey Nickel”).

The funniest I ever saw, however, was the junk mail that my college music teacher used to get. He was a Benedictine monk, and normally signed his name “Br. Ronald Hurst, OSB” (for “Order of St. Benedict”). He was always getting junk mail addressed to “Dear Mr. Osb” or even “Ron Osb.”

Redwolf

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LOL, Kim. Reminds me of my repeated unsuccessful attempts to unsubscribe from Compuserve. The only way I managed to shake them off was by cancelling my bank standing order. Just as well I wasn’t paying by direct debit or I’d probably still be caught in their cold dead hands.

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I always knew one day we’d long for the return of our erstwhile nemesis ‘The Spelling Cop’. Who’s been hanging around the site long enough to remember him?

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On 2002-12-11 07:47, jbarter wrote:
I always knew one day we’d long for the return of our erstwhile nemesis ‘The Spelling Cop’. Who’s been hanging around the site long enough to remember him?

Ohmigawd–you had a Spelling Cop? I consider it actually therapeutic to prevent myself from editing messages I when I quote and respond. It’s an exercise-of-will sort of thing.

By way of explanation, I do a fair bit of freelance proofreading and some editing and quality assurance (i.e., editing) at my day job. The temptation to just fix it is terrible. But, I tell myself, it would be rude in this context.

By the way, I find Blackbeer’s spelling creative to the point of being an art form in itself. :smiley:

M
(How ELSE would my personality develop, with a name like mine? I can still remember learning how to spell it.)

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Kim, you’re hilarious! :laughing:

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On 2002-12-11 08:05, blackhawk wrote:
Kim, you’re hilarious! > :laughing:

Yeah! That’s the sort of thing I’d expect to see in the New Yorker under Steve Martin’s byline.

Excellent!

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I, for one, have been waiting with baited breathe for the retrun of the speling cop.

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Owe ya, da speeling coop. I rembember him. I wunder if he cud evan plaie that wissle?
Chris

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Lee’s early transcript.
grade, english, spelling - summerschool.
4th, Eng. A, Sp. F - 4 weeks summer school to pass spelling.
5th, Eng. A, Sp. F - 6 weeks to pass.
6th, Eng. A, Sp. F - 6 weeks to pass.
7th, Eng. A, Sp. F - 4 weeks to pass.
8th, Eng. A, Sp. F - 4 weeks to pass.
9th, Eng. B, N.A. - School rolled spelling into english grade, first summer without summer school.

As most folks have noted, I have less than half the posts of the leading posters of this board; HOWEVER, I have more editted posts than any TWO other members! Number 1 cause of my edits - spelling. (Number 2 cause is my habit of omitting prepositions.)

I went into computer programming because the computer compiler checked EVERY WORD and corrected them or returned them to me for correction.

I blame it all on my two year stint in Australia as a child. Mixing English, Australian, and American approaches to spelling at such a young age has handicapped me for life. Thanks be that spell checkers were invented.

Still my lack of spelling ability has had an upside. Because I can’t spell the BIG words, I have learned to say the same things poeticlly, … er, poitically, … er, poetecaly … er, BETTER by using lots of simpeller… er, simplar … er, sempler … er, little words.

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Oh, and Dale, I sure hope your error in the subject line was untensionel.
Chris

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On 2002-12-11 09:09, jim_mc wrote:
I, for one, have been waiting with baited breathe for the retrun of the speling cop.

I can’t help myself! It’s “bated” as in “abated.” I think you did “spelling” wrong on porpoise.

:smiley:
M

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Jim definitely did that on purpose.
Chris