60 Misspelled Quotes
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Short Misspelled Quotes
- Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. — Harlan Ellison
- If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? — Steven Wright
- You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note. — Tucker Max
- Love is nothing but lust misspelled. — Dan Simmons
- If guns kill people, I can blame misspelled words on my pencil. — Larry the Cable Guy
- Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone. — E. B. White
- I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled. — Anthony Jeselnik
- Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name. — Frederic Goudy
- A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. — Ben Marcus
- E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm. — George Carlin
Misspelled Words Quotes
In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another. — Bart D. Ehrman
Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his. — Jonathan Lethem
Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words. — Craig Ferguson
When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words If a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive. — Sage Francis
I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years. — A. J. Jacobs
My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them. — Steven Wright
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce. — Mary Norris
The FBI is urging all Americans to beware of any letters or packages that have badly misspelled words. Man, this is going to be terrible news for the rap industry. — Jay Leno
Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter has filed papers to run for president. But in his official filing, he misspelled the word 'president.' Political experts say it's all part of Hunter's plan to attract Bush supporters. — Conan O'Brien
Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this. — Douglas Coupland
Mispronounce Quotes
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. — Christopher Morley
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. — Christopher Morley
Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce. — Sufjan Stevens
I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile. — Adriana Lima
I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now. — Ann Beattie
I have a terrible confession to make, sort of like those people who say that they've been mispronouncing a word all their life: I've never read Ways of Seeing all the way through. I'm sure I carried it around with me in art school. — David Salle
I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe. — Toni Morrison
Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right? — Avril Lavigne
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow. — Margot Asquith
Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for comment, his brother George W. said, 'He sure sounds presidentiary to me.' — Conan O'Brien
People Writing About Misspelled
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Harlan Ellison |
83 | 740 |
 Steven Wright |
543 | 9203 |
 Tucker Max |
128 | 433 |
 Dan Simmons |
113 | 215 |
 Larry the Cable Guy |
75 | 362 |
 E. B. White |
290 | 1808 |
More Misspelled Quotes
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it. — Mitch Hedberg
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. — William Tecumseh Sherman
And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. — Henry Rollins
Google is ridiculous. Everyone uses Google, and that's why Google has such an attitude. Because it's so popular, it's conceited. I mean, it has a serious attitude. Have you tried misspelling something lately? See the tone that it takes? 'Um, did you mean...? — Arj Barker
Absolute freedom doesn't exist and never did. Just as we don't spit on the floor at work, swear at customers, or send out letters full of misspellings, so too we might have to 'watch our language.' It is odd that the request for unbiased language in schools and workplaces is considered intolerable when other limits on our freedom to do whatever we want are not. — Rosalie Maggio
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word? — George Carlin
Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age. — Hedi Slimane
All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It’s not a tough job. I haven’t misspelled one name yet. — Harvey Kuenn
Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot. — Bennett Madison
They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be? — Libba Bray
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