Example sentences for: misspelled

How can you use “misspelled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You remember the jokes: Quayle misspelled "potato," botched the United Negro College Fund slogan ("What a waste it is to lose one's mind"), etc.

  • Though printed in the traditional Yiddish/ Hebrew alphabet, most of the words were misspelled, as though the writer had never seen a Yiddish dictionary; the syntax was garbled almost beyond recognition; the lexical content made little sense.

  • Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).

  • "They don't use real words much anymore," lamented the mother of one contestant last spring, after her son misspelled "fodient" in Round 6. ("Fodient" means "fitted for, or pertaining to, digging."

  • Swop, the misspelled form of swap has become so widely used that it is now accepted as a standard variant by most dictionaries.


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