Woman left in stitches at shopping list full of 'horrendous' spelling errors
A woman was left 'crying tears of laughter' after she found someone else's shopping list, which was littered with 'absolutely horrendous' spelling errors.
Emily Phillips was doing her food shop in Asda in Edinburgh, Scotland, when she came across somebody else's list at the bottom of her basket and wanted a peek at what they'd been purchasing.
She counted a total of 15 spelling mistakes including 'redi maid lasanier, serial and quecumber' - the only word that was spelled correctly was 'milk'.
Other typos included 'buther' for butter, 'choclit', 'mins meet', 'sweat potatas' and 'colsar' - but some people didn't see the funny side of her sharing the list, saying she was trying to make the person 'feel small'.
The spelling on the shopping list left Emily confused (Kennedy News and Media/Emily Phillips/Twitter)Emily said: "I was shopping in Asda. I find something in the bottom of the basket all the time and I'm really nosey so I always look through people's shopping lists to see what they've been getting.
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"I opened that one and thought 'what?'. I thought it was so funny and I was really laughing so I took a photo and sent it to my friend. I was in real tears with laughter.
"At first, I thought it was really funny then I was like 'oh bless'. Then I threw it away but I had to take a photo because I thought it was really funny.
"You understand every single word very easily because it's written exactly how you say it out loud.
"I thought it was really funny that the only word on the entire list that was spelled correctly was milk and other than that they're all absolutely horrendous.
"It's so funny because that's how it sounds, it works which is the bizarre thing.
"I have to say, the way they've spelled mincemeat and ready-made lasagne is really funny. The way they've spelled cucumber is actually harder than the way it's actually spelled. I don't really understand it.
"I forgot about it then someone misspelled something at work and it reminded me. I told them they needed to see the list. I've been showing the people at work for a few weeks and they told me to post it on Twitter because other people would find it funny so I did it."
Since posting the list on Twitter, Emily said she has been inundated with people saying the note belongs to their pals, whilst others saying she shouldn't have shared it.
One wrote: "Quecumber is excellent."
Another said: "I can read and understand every item, as could the person that wrote it. That's the main thing."
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Someone else commented: "If you were intending to make the author look small, you've achieved the opposite effect."
Emily continued: "When I saw the notifications on Twitter, I thought 'oh my God, loads of people have seen it, I don't know what to do'.
"Loads of people have tagged their friends and laughed at the spelling. One person said I was trying to make someone feel small. I just said that I'm not, it's just a laugh, cheer up.
"I don't know who this person is, I don't know if the person who wrote that was doing it for a laugh. It does seem almost unbelievable because you would assume people could spell really simple words.
"Maybe someone thought they'd write it and leave it in a basket and someone will find it and think it's really funny.
"It's not about trying to bully someone, I don't know who the person is and I'm never going to see them. Oh well, people will think I'm trying to be mean but I'm not."
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