58 Wrong Ways to Spell My Name
List #126
. . . I can understand complete strangers misspelling my name but some of these came from people who have known me for years.
40 Misspellings of "Gwen"
1. Bwen
2. Dwen
3. Gen
4. Gern
5. Geun
6. Gewn
7. Glenn
8. Gowen
9. Gren
10. Grwen
11. Guen
12. Guven
13. Gwan
14. Gweb
15. Gwee
16. Gweeb
17. Gween
18. Gwem
19. Gwemn
20. Gwench
21. Gwenn
22. Gweyn
23. Gwgen
24. Gwin
25. Gwn
26. Gwuen
27. Gwyn
28. Gwynn
29. Gwyyn
30. Gyen
31. Gyny
32. Gywn
33. Jwen
34. Quen
35. Quinn
36. Qwun
37. Qwus
38. Swen
39. Wem
40. Wgen
18 Misspellings of "Gwyneth"
. . . Yes, my full name is Gwyneth. I was named after a character in a Welsh book that my mom's penpal was reading some years before I was born. Seriously, though, no one ever calls my Gwyneth except telemarketers and people in gubmint jobs.
1. Gewnneth
2. Geyneth
3. Gweenyt
4. Gwemith
5. Gwendlyn
6. Gwendolyn
7. Gweneth
8. Gwenith
9. Gwennith
10. Gwenth
11. Gwenyth
12. Gwneth
13. Gwyenth
14. Gwynent
15. Gwynyth
16. Gwyynth
17. Gywnith
18. Hwyneth
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20 February 2010
13 January 2010
Eye Halve a Spell Chequer
. . . Collected some years ago as a specimen of "email lore." As one who supports English spelling reform, and believes that rigid adherence to the notion of "correct" spelling is somewhat silly at times, I do acknowledge the difficulties that can accompany one who ignores intelligent spelling conventions.
Eye halve a spell chequer
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it’s weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
-- Sauce unknown
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. . . Collected some years ago as a specimen of "email lore." As one who supports English spelling reform, and believes that rigid adherence to the notion of "correct" spelling is somewhat silly at times, I do acknowledge the difficulties that can accompany one who ignores intelligent spelling conventions.
Eye halve a spell chequer
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it’s weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
-- Sauce unknown
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30 September 2009
47 "Secret" Letter Squares
. . . I list below a group of 47 "secret" letter squares. These are groups of words that all use the same four letters (with a few 5-letter words included). What are they good for? you may well ask. Well, if you're addicted to Boggle, which I am, then having these "letter squares" memorized gives you three, four, or even five, six or seven words for the price of one.
I can see you're still confused. Well, to be more specific, when you're playing Boggle, or any Boggle-based wordgame -- Babble, Bookworm, Scramble, Wordsplay, whatever -- and you see one of these words in a cluster on the grid, then, in most cases, you can get all the words in the group in one fell swoop. (Okay, some of these games don't accept some of these words. No matter. Don't try to remember which game will take which words; just type 'em all as fast as you can.)
Of course, in a perfect game, the four letters will appear in a perfect 2x2 square, but in many cases you can still make all the words even if the letters appear in a 1x2x1 cluster, or some other pattern. As long as they're all together.
Those of you who have played Boggle with me will be shocked that I'm revealing one of my secret strategies. Don't be. This is just one of my strategies and it's not all that secret. I have plenty other strategies that I'm not going to share. 8-)
I have arranged each group starting with the word that I tend to find the most often, followed by less common words, and then the least familiar words at the end of each group. Enjoy!
---o Seven-Word Letter Squares o---
1. lair > liar > rail > rial > lira > aril > lari
2. seat > teas > eats > east > sate > ates > etas
---o Six-Word Letter Squares o---
3. meats > teams > mates > tames > steam > metas
4. spot > stop > tops > pots > post > opts
5. steel > sleet > leets > teels > stele > teles
6. times > mites > items > emits > metis > stime
---o Five-Word Letter Squares o---
7. ales > sale > seal > lase > leas
8. peas > pase > apse > apes > spae
9. deer > dere > dree > reed > rede
10. diet > dite > tide > tied > edit
11. lone > nole > leno > noel > enol
12. hate > haet > heat > eath > thae
13. tale > teal > tael > late > tela
14. seam > same > mesa > mase > maes
15. meat > mate > team > tame > meta
16. miter > mitre > timer > remit > emir
17. pins > spin > snip > nips > psi
18. rose > roes > sore > ores > eros
19. roti > riot > tori > tiro > trio
20. rotis > riots > tiros > trios > trois
---o Four-Word Letter Squares o---
21. said > dais > aids > sadi
22. slap > laps > alps > pals
23. pass > saps > asps > spas
24. anan > nana > anna > naan
25. rats > star > arts > tsar
26. coin > cion > icon > coni
27. send > dens > ends > sned
28. door > rood > odor > ordo
29. seel > lees > eels > else
30. time > mite > item > emit
31. gore > goer > ogre > ergo
32. sink > skin > inks > kins
33. noir > iron > nori > inro
34. lion > loin > lino > noil
35. nose > noes > eons > ones
36. part > tarp > trap > prat
37. rile > lier > lire > riel
38. soil > oils > soli > silo
39. tows > stow > twos > swot
---o And a Few Fun Three-Word Letter Squares o---
40. duel > lude > leud
41. taxer > extra > retax
42. fate > feat > feta
43. huts > shut > tush
44. lane > lean > elan
45. pane > pean > neap
46. nitro > intro > niton
47. fret > reft > tref
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. . . I list below a group of 47 "secret" letter squares. These are groups of words that all use the same four letters (with a few 5-letter words included). What are they good for? you may well ask. Well, if you're addicted to Boggle, which I am, then having these "letter squares" memorized gives you three, four, or even five, six or seven words for the price of one.
I can see you're still confused. Well, to be more specific, when you're playing Boggle, or any Boggle-based wordgame -- Babble, Bookworm, Scramble, Wordsplay, whatever -- and you see one of these words in a cluster on the grid, then, in most cases, you can get all the words in the group in one fell swoop. (Okay, some of these games don't accept some of these words. No matter. Don't try to remember which game will take which words; just type 'em all as fast as you can.)
Of course, in a perfect game, the four letters will appear in a perfect 2x2 square, but in many cases you can still make all the words even if the letters appear in a 1x2x1 cluster, or some other pattern. As long as they're all together.
Those of you who have played Boggle with me will be shocked that I'm revealing one of my secret strategies. Don't be. This is just one of my strategies and it's not all that secret. I have plenty other strategies that I'm not going to share. 8-)
I have arranged each group starting with the word that I tend to find the most often, followed by less common words, and then the least familiar words at the end of each group. Enjoy!
---o Seven-Word Letter Squares o---
1. lair > liar > rail > rial > lira > aril > lari
2. seat > teas > eats > east > sate > ates > etas
---o Six-Word Letter Squares o---
3. meats > teams > mates > tames > steam > metas
4. spot > stop > tops > pots > post > opts
5. steel > sleet > leets > teels > stele > teles
6. times > mites > items > emits > metis > stime
---o Five-Word Letter Squares o---
7. ales > sale > seal > lase > leas
8. peas > pase > apse > apes > spae
9. deer > dere > dree > reed > rede
10. diet > dite > tide > tied > edit
11. lone > nole > leno > noel > enol
12. hate > haet > heat > eath > thae
13. tale > teal > tael > late > tela
14. seam > same > mesa > mase > maes
15. meat > mate > team > tame > meta
16. miter > mitre > timer > remit > emir
17. pins > spin > snip > nips > psi
18. rose > roes > sore > ores > eros
19. roti > riot > tori > tiro > trio
20. rotis > riots > tiros > trios > trois
---o Four-Word Letter Squares o---
21. said > dais > aids > sadi
22. slap > laps > alps > pals
23. pass > saps > asps > spas
24. anan > nana > anna > naan
25. rats > star > arts > tsar
26. coin > cion > icon > coni
27. send > dens > ends > sned
28. door > rood > odor > ordo
29. seel > lees > eels > else
30. time > mite > item > emit
31. gore > goer > ogre > ergo
32. sink > skin > inks > kins
33. noir > iron > nori > inro
34. lion > loin > lino > noil
35. nose > noes > eons > ones
36. part > tarp > trap > prat
37. rile > lier > lire > riel
38. soil > oils > soli > silo
39. tows > stow > twos > swot
---o And a Few Fun Three-Word Letter Squares o---
40. duel > lude > leud
41. taxer > extra > retax
42. fate > feat > feta
43. huts > shut > tush
44. lane > lean > elan
45. pane > pean > neap
46. nitro > intro > niton
47. fret > reft > tref
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