Friday FAIL

Some spelling FAILs in places you wouldn't expect them to be.

In the local discount store, where the "a"s are all sold out.

The McSpellchecker must be down again.

How to write a CV that will help you get the job.

Attention-getting! This one's probably tongue in cheek.

This one's for real. Argh!

Only in...wherever. I can't make out the state on the licence plate. Can you?

Silly Spellchecker

I type many of my posts on my BlackBerry. It's a convenient way to capture an idea as it occurs,  or record a news item from the paper that has in some way inspired a spanking thought. But I never realized that the built-in spellchecker function doesn't seem to recognize the word "spankings". The singular form is fine. But put an "s" on the end (who has just one spanking?) and it underlines the word, flagging it as an error.

What are the suggested corrections? There are two: span king (the former nom de plume of a spanking blogger) and the singular form - spanking.

I did some research by typing other discipline-related words, and here's what my little gadget suggests as replacements:

Spanker  (spanner or spanked)

Spanko (spank or spanks)

Spankee (spanked)

Spankophile (spaniels, Spanish, spanning, spangled)

OTK (ok, irk,  oak,  OT, OTC)

TTWD (tied, tad, toad, Todd)


Silly spellchecker. I need to figure out how to make some additions to the custom dictionary.

Who Gets Spanked First?

Here's a tricky situation. It's Tuesday and the cheerleader has forgotten her permission slip. That means a spanking.

But the teacher has misspelled Tuesday. How does that change the situation? Does the cheerleader gets an extra day's grace? Fewer swats? Or should the teacher be spanked for setting such a bad example?