An Australian publisher has had to pulp a cookbook after one recipe called for "salt and freshly ground black people" to be added to the dish. The recipe called for salt and freshly ground black pepper but a misprint occurred on just one page, probably as a result of a computer's spell-checker programme. Never - […]

13 of the World's Top 20 Universities Misspell "University" on Their Own Website! An analysis by enterprise website spell checking platform spellr.us has revealed that on average, 14.2% of web pages on the world's most prestigious university websites contain at least one genuine spelling error. The annual spellr.us Higher Education Online Content Survey found that […]

That old spelling mantra, which generations of British schoolchildren have learnt for decades, "i before e, except after c," is under threat. Under new British government guidance teachers have been told not to pass on the rule to students, because there are too many exceptions. A document called "Support For Spelling" is being sent to […]

There is a price to pay for having toys made abroad just because it's cheaper. Granny Suzanne Toulson bought her granddaughter ABC building blocks from Morrisons, only to find a series of spelling errors. Building blocks have a letter of the alphabet and a word that starts with that letter, but the Y block misspelled […]

Britain's minister for schools has a string of basic errors on his website. Jim Knight, who went to Cambridge University, has admitted he could do better when it comes to spelling, after a newspaper found several examples of poor spelling on his website, they include "maintainence" for "maintenance," "acheiving" for "achieving" and "archeaological" for "archaeological," […]

The word ghoti phonetically spells: FISH gh as in laugh (f)o as in women (i)ti as in nation (sh)