Most commonly misspelled things.....

CDsNuts

I'm trying to come up with a list of the most commonly misspelled things in sports collectibles. On my list, I currently have:

Ripkin
Mantel
Donross
Tops


Any others?

Lee

pandrews

"see these nuts"

pandrews

maras, marris,

Volver

Mark McGuire
Payton Manning
Is it Jimmy or Jimmie Foxx

theczar

sort of in the sports world--they spell lose---> L-O-O-S-E. like loose change.

dpfitzell

I am a horible speller I have probally mispelled them all. ( when I was in grade school I got pretty good grades but horrible speller my english grade suffered I got a 100 on a spelling test once and my teacher threw a party) true story

gumbyfan

My personal favorite: Farve

Stingray

Fydrich.

dpfitzell

my favorite is Jordon.

BigRedMachine

Lee,

There are sights out there that will search this for you, give it a try.

type in the correct spelling and it'll search mispellings also

There are others as well, one is: auctionlot watch, all put together but it won't let me type it here because of what comes between auctionlo and tch.

shawn

colebear

How about mony order

gosteelers

Good topic. I generally try to steer away from auctions that have tons of words spelled wrong.

Ex.:

Auction Title: Brett Farve '03 SP
Description: You are bidding on a PSA garded card of Brett Farve of the Green Bay Packer. He was a very good player. maybe HOF! pLEASE see my feedback. It's inpecable! Shipping will be $6.50 via #1 white envelope. Please don't be scarred to bid based on my horrendus spilling.

SDavid

dwayne wade (though I think his parents were really the ones who misspelled).

kcballboy

<< <i>Lee,

There are sights out there that will search this for you, give it a try.

type in the correct spelling and it'll search mispellings also

There are others as well, one is: auctionlot watch, all put together but it won't let me type it here because of what comes between auctionlo and tch.

shawn >>



websight

gosteelers

shat...as in shat-tastic!

Elemenopeo

ol' reliable Carl Yastrzemski

... and newcomer Jhonny Peralta

AkbarClone

Not for auctions, but by far the most commonly misspelled word on these forums is "ridiculous". I can't guess how many times I have seen someone spell it as "rediculous" over the years.

Barfvader

Here's three I have seen on a regular basis.

Dunruss
Fleet
Conseco



Jeff

gosteelers

<< <i>Not for auctions, but by far the most commonly misspelled word on these forums is "ridiculous". I can't guess how many times I have seen someone spell it as "rediculous" over the years. >>



How about definately? S/B definitely

shagrotn77

Along the same lines, surprise is often misspelled as suprise. Same thing with candidate/canidate.

wolfbear

HUGH lot of cards ...

Volver

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it

dpfitzell

I read that very easily weird

mikeschmidt

<< <i>maras, marris, >>



Well, Roger's name was originally Maras -- it was only after he had been in the minors for a little while that he formally changed the spelling to Maris.

BobaFett72

Farvarah!

ajw

<< <i>I am a horible speller I have probally mispelled them all. ( when I was in grade school I got pretty good grades but horrible speller my english grade suffered I got a 100 on a spelling test once and my teacher threw a party) true story >>



"when I was in grade school I got pretty good grades but horrible speller my english grade suffered I got a 100 on a spelling test once and my teacher threw a party"

Wow. Never got that punctuation party, huh?

(kidding!)

AlanAllen

In sports: Chris/Cris Carter

In general: your/you're

Joe

NickM

Jimmy vs. Jimmie Foxx is not a misspelling. His name appeared different ways on different cards.

Yaz takes the cake on misspellings - I once searched for 6 different variations of his name and found items on all of them.

Here are some others I've run across frequently:
Gherig
Micky Mantel
Toops
Neikro
Mayes
Rothlisberger/Rothlisburger/Roethlisburger
Jim Katt (although that's what '65 Topps did to his name)
Matthewson



Nick

lawnmowerman

It seems to me EMMITT Smith is the most mispelled or at least has the most variations. I have a bunch of different searches on ebay.

I have seen it spelled;

1. Emitt

2. Emmit

3. Emit

4. Emmett

5. Emett

6. Emet

I just won an auction for a psa 10 card that would have sold for close to $30.00 bucks because the auction title was mispelled. The funny thing about it was, it was PSA's fault. The flip had Emmitt's name spelled Emitt. The person listing the card apparently didnt know the correct spelling either

1989FleerBillRipkencollector

My most common typos are...

smoe and teh.

I see Ripkin and once got a great deal on a Rikpen. I see Fler too.


Rak and Pak but on 89 Fleer it is spelled Pak on the case so....

taka

Wayne Gretsky

AUPT

My pet peeves are:

Those who either don't know or are too lazy to spell "probably". It is not "probly" or prolly."

It is also illogical and personally annoys me when people refer to "the Bay". It is two letters and a space short to spell out "eBay".

Ladder7

Gerhig, Demaggio, Matthewson

jomer

if i had a penny for everytime i saw Mikita spelled Makita ................ i'd be rich !!

Brian48

Orel Hershiser

bhl2359

<< <i>Here's three I have seen on a regular basis.

Dunruss
Fleet
Conseco

Jeff >>



Fleet is only right if you are looking for enema products. (NTTIAWWT)