And the winner is..
For the strangest misspelling seen multiple times this year...
"Wheather"!
Mixing up "whether" and "weather" is pretty common. Spell checking software is likely to miss it. And heck, if you didn't know that they were different words, one sounds as good as the other.
But "wheather" is sort of a hybrid. Perhaps these three students knew that it wasn't "weather", but couldn't couldn't bring themselves to write "whether" (always the misspelled word). I kind of like it. It is has a sort of woody feel to it, conjuring images of the heath.
posted by Scholz @ 3/06/2008 03:18:00 PM
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4 Comments:
Yes, but what's it *mean*?
I remember seeing a sign in the window of a store in Clackamas Mall - well, two signs, one on each side. One said "bras' 50% off" and the other said "bra's 50% off". Two tries, zero hits.
au contraire, mademoiselle amanda!
one of those is quite meaningful:
bra's 50% off
as in "i am totally gettin' lucky: her' bra's 50% off!"
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lex
Statistician sex.
and that apostrophe at the end of "her" was a typo. :}
lex
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