Friday, October 19, 2012

Spellings of the future


Here’s one, a misspelling so strange that it must in fact be a spelling of the future, traveling backward in time to give us a foretaste of our language’s evolution. Aww, as in “I stood in aww.”

What spellings of the future have you noticed?

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comments: 2

The Arthurian said...

I don't know how it's spelt... but I hear your "aww" repeatedly on TV now, pronounced "ahh".

Elaine said...

But, wait! I just recently posted this wordlet in a comment about our daughter's Facebook post. Well, there may have been a couple more W's. (Photo of two cats, curled in a basket in a sunbeam: 21 year-old Siamese Sher Khan, much younger orange-and-gold Leo.)