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There are many women entering hunting and the shooting sprots field every year.
Should a 10-year-old be permitted to go hunting? Ann Althouse 2008
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There are many women entering hunting and the shooting sprots field every year.
Should a 10-year-old be permitted to go hunting? Ann Althouse 2008
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Olbermann was a lousy sports caster; his only sprots experience was collecting baseball cards. he is a lousy pundit.
Keith Olbermann calls out Rush Limbaugh for saying why he thinks John Edwards cheated on Elizabeth. Ann Althouse 2008
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The otter swims and dives with great celerity, and in doing the latter it throws up _sprots_, or air-bubbles, which enable the hunters to ascertain where it is, and to spear it.
Anecdotes of Dogs Edward Jesse 1824
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Here's a really cool sprots highlight video I put together.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
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For every person who drives a sprots car - there's one who prefers a pick-up truck.
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Puerto Vallarta Rental Villas are so popular because the area offers visitors so many choices - luxury villas, condo hotels, gorgeous beaches, water sprots, art and various entertainment options that all work together to keep this area in the international vacation spotlight.
unknown title 2009
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And based on how they cover sprots, maybe they should drop the sports altoether.
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Here's a really cool sprots highlight video I put together.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2008
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Go to courierpostonline. com / varsity for more high school sprots coverage
vendingmachine commented on the word sprots
The intentional spelling of sports used by people who hate sports.
sprot: a splinter, a fragment.
June 14, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word sprots
Is there a linguistic term for this intentional misspelling or pronunciation change?
See sprots, hoik. If not, there should be one.
June 14, 2015
bilby commented on the word sprots
There's a whole genre of this in Indonesian, known as plesetan, which translates from Javanese as 'slipping'.
One of the better examples that sticks in mind in English is a Monty Python sketch where John Cleese was giving a speech as the Minister for Pisrenunciation.
June 15, 2015
qms commented on the word sprots
Googling "deliberate misspelling" I find that many people have posed this question. There is cacography, which is just bad spelling, whether or not deliberately inflicted. Wikipedia provides an entry for Sensational spelling, which is a common marketing ploy as in "froot" for "fruit." Such misspellings are meant to confer cuteness rather than express scorn.
If I understand correctly vendingmachine's quest is for a term to describe the practice of deliberately misspelling a word as a way to convey disapproval or contempt. I think "disspelling" is a good candidate if it is allowed to cohabit with the sense of dispersal or dissipation. (I also find a "dispelling ring" defined as an apotropaic piece of jewelry in the Dark Souls game, but this is probably ephemeral.)
disspelling is a combination of dis + spelling.
June 15, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word sprots
Thanks, gms. I like the term "disspelling". (If only autocorrect would allow it. It keeps changing "disspelling" to "dispelling"!)
June 15, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word sprots
Oops. I didn't intend to disspell your Wordnik user name on purpose (as a way to convey disapproval or contempt.) It was pure carelessness.
June 15, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word sprots
See disspelling.
June 25, 2015