Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Misspelt Headline of the Day: Oylmpic Torch Bearer

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This photo of a tattoo on an Olympic torch bearer on BBC's website came with this explanation:

"A woman who got a new tattoo to celebrate her role in the Olympic torch relay was shocked to discover it had been spelt incorrectly."

"Spelt" is a kind of wheat. The Brits need to learn to speak English.

3 comments:

  1. Maybe it was clever irony with the headline? Actually, that issue with the tattoo will be pretty easy for a good artist to fix.

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  2. My dictionary also defines spelt as "Alternative past tense and past participle of spell"

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  3. This is a joke. Spell that JOKE. It is not a serious critique on the language.

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