Example sentences for: misspelled

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

  • One group of typographical errors is much more serious than a single misspelled word.

  • John Ayto, editor of the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins , reviewed elsewhere in this issue, will not be happy to see his name misspelled “Ayton.”

  • 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’).

  • Anything the editor doesn't catch, the checker does, from misspelled names to lapses in logic that only a fresh set of eyes can recognize.

  • Prouder, in fact, now than when we published it, because nearly two weeks later everyone who could take a shot at it has, and so far I can see that I've misspelled one name, screwed up one sequence (the Journal decided not to wait for comment from the White House on its incorrect steward-witness story after hearing the White House wanted a half-hour to comment, not before), and included two or three gratuitous adjectives that I now wouldn't.


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