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07 May 2024, 3:44 pm

Ironically it is a word often misspelled. People spell it "mispell" which would mean to pell incorrectly, not to spell incorrectly.



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07 May 2024, 5:12 pm

I once saw it spelled "miss spell".


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07 May 2024, 5:12 pm

So that's how it's spelt?


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07 May 2024, 6:15 pm

I havent thought about it for quite a spell.



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08 May 2024, 1:54 pm

Miss Pell would never misspell the word "misspell". She knows how it is spelled.