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It rained yesterday and washed their sign off, and they've spelled bagel correctly this time. Although they're a little less accurate on "baguetts". Are dictionaries endangered nowadays I wonder?
I was at a trivia night where one question (read aloud, not shown on the screen, although they had a picture) was "how do you spell pterodactyl?"
The supplied answer in the marking round was "terradactyl".
I know people can't spell. I know terra is a common misspelling of ptero. But come on. If you're going to ask people at a trivia game how to spell something - use an ACTUAL DICTIONARY before the event.
They claimed they'd googled it. Yeah, if you google 'terradactyl' you do get a lot of hits. Because people misspell the damned thing online.
They should have wiki'ed it. And Google gives "pterodactyl" winning over "terradactyl" by odds of about 50 against 1.
On one board where I used to be a moderator (technically, I still am), one guy from Québec insisted that Québécois was spelt Québéçois. He told me that's how one of his teachers taught him to write the word. I was struck speechless. The character 'ç' is pronounced like 'ss'. How can any one make THAT mistake ?
"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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