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Post by lotsofcats on Oct 9, 2013 11:55:07 GMT
I noticed a spelling mistake I made in work. On a Method Statement I was supposed to type in "we will remove our scrap off site at the end of each day" and I noticed that I had typed "we will remove our crap off site"..........and I sent it off!
Another time I put a man's name as Brain instead of Brian.
And I just have to tell you my sister in law's brilliant verbal mistake. At work there was a promotion on and she was supposed to ask each customers if they wanted to buy any "janitorial cleaner" and she asked one bemused man if he wanted any "genital cleaner"!!
Own up - has anyone else typed or said something wrong?
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Post by Pawsforthought on Oct 9, 2013 12:58:17 GMT
Gotta love the Brain/Brian misstype thing hehe!
I actually called someone Brain (I knew them on-line) because I misstyped it so much.
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Post by scallywag on Oct 9, 2013 13:33:35 GMT
Ha ha when I was 18 I worked at Stansted Airport as a telex operator for a Cargo transporter. I had to send a telex to Nigeria as they had requested a change of Schedule for one of the flights. I sent the telex and said ok to change the schedule to STOP SWEARING yourself EDIT instead of saying SUIT yourself
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Post by SarahHound on Oct 9, 2013 16:21:38 GMT
Ha ha when I was 18 I worked at Stansted Airport as a telex operator for a Cargo transporter. I had to send a telex to Nigeria as they had requested a change of Schedule for one of the flights. I sent the telex and said ok to change the schedule to STOP SWEARING yourself EDIT instead of saying SUIT yourself Brilliant
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Post by tonib on Oct 9, 2013 18:14:40 GMT
Love those lotsofcats I've made so many (both written & verbal) over the years I can't remember any really good ones. One that really annoyed me was when writing computer programs I had to use the word performI nearly always typed it or wrote for someone else to put to punch card or tape (in the days before computer screens!) perfromthe number of errors I used to have in my programs initially was mainly down to this I still have problems with my fingers getting letters the wrong way round when typing, must be quicker with some fingers/hand than others.
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Post by heartpawprints on Oct 9, 2013 23:00:42 GMT
Really funny all of them. The OH and I were playing who wants to be a millionaire on his phone and the question was something like what did Winston Churchill famously refer to Ghandi as? Chris read out the choices, one of which he said was "a half naked fu*ker". When I looked over the word was fakir. I laughed my socks off and we still joke about it.
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Post by fatamorgana on Oct 12, 2013 14:03:26 GMT
Not exactly a spelling mistake, more a case of dyslexia.
As house plants, I like to grow African violets and succulents - Aloe Vera, Christmas cactus, Easter Cactus, some mammilarias and Peanut cactus. Often, when talking passionately about my collection, I call one of my little green residents a peenuss cactus.
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Post by teegiebear on Oct 14, 2013 8:59:40 GMT
Hehe loving this thread.
I send texts all the time with wrong words, I blame auto correct. I mind when we were in school we got certificates at the end of the year for each subject and my friend Brian got the one for i,t,. Well his certificate said awarded to brain mckelvie! We had a great laugh the the school couldn't spell his name.
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Post by fatamorgana on Oct 18, 2013 15:16:29 GMT
How about this one?
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Post by migsy on Oct 18, 2013 15:26:17 GMT
lotsofcats,good job he wasn't called Alan...Anal...
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Post by migsy on Oct 18, 2013 15:29:59 GMT
Wow! how do you get out of that one? (no,the coughing definitely doesn't work!)
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