davieG Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 Leicester and Loughborough are among the most misspelled places in Britain, according to a new survey. Edinburgh – often spelt Edinboro, Edinburg or Edinbough – is the city that most people have difficulty spelling, according to booking location entries on Travelodge's website. Loughborough, which has been spelled as Luffboro or Luffbrough, finished in sixth place in the top 20 list while Leicester – Lesster – was sixteenth. Shakila Ahmed, Travelodge spokeswoman said: "Around 20% of these visits include a search containing a misspelled UK location. "The reason for this could be speed of typing or it's more likely to be that people are spelling a location as they think it's pronounced." Most misspelled places in Britain 1 Edinburgh Edinboro, Edinburg, Edinbough 2 London Landan, Londan, Loodon 3 Torquay Tourkey, Tourkie 4 Derby Darby, Derbie, Darbie 5 Carlisle Carlilse, Carlyle 6 Loughborough Luffboro , Luffbrough 7 Glasgow Glassgow, Glazgo, Glarsgow 8 Cardiff Kardiff, Cardyff 9 Bicester Bister, Bizester 10 Warwick Warrick 11 Bournemouth Bornmath, bornmouthe 12 Norwich Norrich, Norwitch 13 Harrogate Harrowget 14 Chichester Chitchester 15 Bath Barth, Barff 16 Leicester Lesster 17 Cotswold Cotsworld, Cost World 18 Windsor Winsor, Winsore, Windsore 19 Luton Looton, lutonne 20 Stirling Sterrlin, Stirlin Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/leicester-and-loughborough-among-list-of-most-misspelled-places-in-britain/story-29588529-detail/story.html#efL7kstyfJdWpVkv.99
Nick Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 People with pun problems could just play in here, surely. It could be their own little pun sandpit area?
AKCJ Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 Anyone who spells Leicester like that wants stringing up tbf.
Finnaldo Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 That's the most tragic list I've ever seen. I can feel my grammar level dropping below Year 2 standard just looking at it.
Alf Bentley Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 Most mispelled miss-spelled misspelt misspeled Oh shit! I'm off to the 2016 Death thread!
Alf Bentley Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 4 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said: Cost World. New chain of poundsaver shops due to open in picturesque districts of Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire
RowlattsFox Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 Edinburgh I can understand but are people seriously spelling London wrong?
davieG Posted 5 August 2016 Author Posted 5 August 2016 2 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said: Edinburgh I can understand but are people seriously spelling London wrong? t's those cockneys they can't spell their own place name. Landan
AKCJ Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 1 minute ago, davieG said: t's those cockneys they can't spell their own place name. Landan Landan made me laugh the most.
The People's Hero Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 25 minutes ago, AKCJ said: Anyone who spells Leicester like that wants stringing up tbf. Bit rich, Jack?
Manwell Pablo Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 I know I have done Stirling Sterling before. Pretty sure I'll have miss spelled Edinburgh at some point as well. London however can't be right.
Finnegan Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 I assume Middlesbrough is only not on the list because nobody ever needs to write about Middlesbrough.
Steven Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 46 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said: New chain of poundsaver shops due to open in picturesque districts of Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire There is a serious business idea here. Discount chain without the stigma.
Darkon84 Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 Seriously, who the feck spells some of those places like that? How is it even possible? Urgh, my head hurts!
Tuna Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 I could spell all of these at age 7. You'd have to be seriously fcucking stupid not to know how to spell these places. * * Excluding any medical conditions (That's for the PC brigade).
Jimothy Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 Cotsworld sounds like a giant superstore that only sells cots.
Webbo Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 13 minutes ago, Tuna said: I could spell all of these at age 7. You'd have to be seriously fcucking stupid not to know how to spell these places. * * Excluding any medical conditions (That's for the PC brigade). I can't spell West Bromich and I've got athletes foot. I'm really offended by your comment. I need a safe space.
Wymsey Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 If it's pubs, then the Copt Oak near Loughborough is a winner - 'Cupt Oak', 'Corpt Oak', 'Copt Ork'.
Alf Bentley Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 This all reminds me of a classic mispronunciation when I was hitchhiking in France in the 1980s (youngsters may tune out now...): A French bloke picked me up gave me a lift and as we drove along, we got chatting in French. Hearing that I was English, he told me that he'd spent some time in an English city. It was named (best possible transcription): Soo-Ton'-Ton' I couldn't work out what the hell this city was. He was astonished at this. It was quite a big city, he said. It had several hundred thousand inhabitants, he informed me. I was still scratching my head. He explained further. It was in the south of England, he said. It was a big port, he reckoned. There were even ferries from this city that sailed to France. Finally I twigged..... Soo-Ton'-Ton' (French) = Southampton (English). Thank-you for enjoying my (true) story.
ousefox Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 I think this tells us more about the average Travelodge customer than anything else.
Guest MattP Posted 5 August 2016 Posted 5 August 2016 That is painful. I really hope some of those are fake.
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.