Fron a Facebook post:

Brenda Lester alphatwin2002 at YAHOO.COM
Fri Aug 31 17:47:41 UTC 2012


So much of what you see is merely misspellings, especially on social sites.






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"… and other _assordid_ types …"

I guess that people hear many more idiomatic collocations than they
ever read. But, you'd think that they'd ask themselves WTF _assordid_
means.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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