Okay, we all know that the internet has turned our collective ability to spell into goo. One slip of the key and you find that what you thought would be an elegant and informative post/email/etc has become a shining electronic testament to your position as a linguistic neanderthal.
But, there are some misspellings that seem like more than misspellings . . . it's like a whole new universe has opened up before us -- entirely new words are being manufactured from old meanings, bizarro orthographic dialetic materialism is in progress . . .
Two examples from today:
"It's a synch" (for "it's a cinch.")
"smart ellick" (for "smart aleck.")
What miraculous new spellings have you come across in your journeys about the web? And are they really that new? (After all, my Webster's Dictionary just informed me that "stingaree" is an acceptable alternate spelling of "stingray." Like hell it is.)
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