Where, once again, people whose level of literacy is limited to making an X, to vote for Trump, show what happens when you sleep through English class. Our poor language, so battered and bruised??! 😯
Pros
Area light, held anywhere with a suction cob – Have another cup of whatever you’re drinking
It liked Christmas to lewd acts – Really, it likened pretension to illiteracy.
Catch lightening in a bottle – Only if it’s a Miss Clairol bottle
10 of which are located in Canada — five in Ontario, four in Alberta and one each in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. – Your school called. It wants its math diploma back.
Electrical interference is omitted from an appliance – You could have omitted that, and used emitted instead.
Man fined for trying to fry chicken in Yellowstone hot spring – Well, I’m boiling mad about that.
I’d like to formerly address some issues – like, it was formerly spelled formally.
Snow squeaked under the souls of their boots – Holy footwear that eats fish on Friday…. Soles
He actually had a conscious – if he’d been conscious, he’d know that it was a conscience.
I included the numbers for your class elbow – My one elbow thinks that it should be below.
Tea is a sorce of gossip – It’s also a source of laughter and pity.
An inherit quality of the cave – Something he got in the will, from his father, The Cavern.
She had a rockin’, taught bod – I was taught that it was spelled taut
They we’re banned from the show – We’re thinking that they probably were.
Amateurs
I was airing on the side of Christianity – You should be erring on the side of correct English.
After a day of frockling around – I hope they were frolicking near a dictionary.
We our meant to be – We meant to say, are.
I sat out to write a story – Since you’re seated, use set.
I would part take of Communion – Soooo close – but no wafer to partake of
In this day-in-age the government – says, ‘In this day and age.’
Girl apholds American flag – and I uphold the right to spell it correctly
This one particularly irks me, because ‘upholds’ does not mean the same thing as ‘holds up.’ The photo of the girl with the flag was on the facing page, and the picture with this caption was a family picnicking in a park. 😯
Within a year in a half – she found that she should have written and.
The computer geek had a LAN line – that all the duct cleaners would land on
Put a parsley spring on top – of one too many Ns, and one too few proofreads
The great thing about homemade canned food – is the taste of cognitive dissonance.
Lest anyone think homemade pickles or jam…. This was a pot of chili for dinner.
Pain staking patience – staking might cause pain, until they discover painstaking = pains taking
Grab their phone and begin discretely searching – For the word discreetly.
Swair there alligensecne – I swear their spelling is shitty, no matter what their allegiance.
That old so-in-so – prefers to be called a so-and-so.
(That’s 3 of those don’t-see-‘n-says.)
He grabbed first prise – but it wasn’t a prize for correct spelling
Atheism has a negative tenant – he’s probably out, looking up ‘tenet.’
If God is a fickle of my imagination – He’s probably looking up ‘figment too.’
Wearing ten-gallon hats and stirrups – Pretty sure he meant spurs. Stirrups are saddle parts.
The Government has done an admiral job – In general, it’s an admirable job
What can I say about that faithful day – You could say that it was fateful.
A belief froth with problems – Take your beer with a head on it over to look up fraught.
Rub salt in a womb – That adage rubbed me the wrong way, and caused a wound.
It took escaping a cult to make me real-eyes – I realize that you probably failed kindergarten.