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  2. Satiric misspelling - Wikipedia

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    A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose. This can be achieved with intentional malapropism (e.g. replacing erection for election ), enallage (giving a sentence the wrong form, eg. "we was robbed!"), or simply replacing a letter with another letter (for example, in English, k ...

  3. Satirical misspelling - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 12 February 2007, at 19:59 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Used to indicate misspelling spo: Spell out: Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged fl: Flush left: Align text flush with left margin fr: Flush right: Align text flush with right margin eq # Equalize ...

  5. Intentional misspelling - Wikipedia

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    Intentional misspelling may refer to: Sensational spelling; Satiric misspelling This page was last edited on 8 ...

  6. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/S

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    misspelling (click for Wikipedia search); (correct spelling) To add an entry to the list, insert a new search entry using the {{search link}} template with the correct spelling in parentheses after the link.

  7. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [ 2 ] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration , or telling; description , or picturing; exposition , or explaining; and argument , or ...

  8. Muphry's law - Wikipedia

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    Stephen J. Dubner described learning of the existence of Muphry's law in the "Freakonomics" section of The New York Times in July 2008. He had accused The Economist of a typo in referring to Cornish pasties being on sale in Mexico, assuming that "pastries" had been intended and being familiar only with the word "pasties" with the meaning of nipple coverings.

  9. Talk:Satiric misspelling - Wikipedia

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    It looks like it was originally an actual misspelling by 1 person that took off like wildfire. Im on mobile and have no idea how to format it, so Im leaving it as a talk topic. - ShowierData9979 (Cant be bothered to create an account right now) 47.220.165.238 ( talk ) 07:58, 27 June 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]