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By singleandthankful - 23/02/2013 23:18 - United Kingdom - Beaconsfield

Today, my now ex-boyfriend called me out after I spelt "realised" with an S instead of a Z. It wouldn't have been so bad, if we weren't both British, if he hadn't called me an "illiterate idiot", and if he hadn't muttered "family of morons" when my mum backed me up. FML
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By lrn2spel, teach - This FML is from back in 2013 but it's good stuff - United States - Mogadore

Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
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Vidrill 22

It's so annoying when people are arrogant and rude on top of being blatantly wrong...

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fylx100 19

You just went full retard. Never go full retard.

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beanthemouse 13

What an ass. Really, who gets all rude and mean over a spelling error?

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MrBoredomioo 18

And it's not even an error.

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JustAGirlOnFML 11

He sounds like an extreme dumbass, probably a good thing you're broken up. I live in the US and I prefer to use UK spelling over US spelling.

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margiemayhem 2

Is spelt also am English (Euro) spelling? Because in the US it's spelled in the past tense.

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kittenvks 11

Yes. I don't know why you got thumbed down.

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Pretty_reckless_fml 18

In England we use both, but yes spelt is past tense for spell, like spelled :)

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shrdlu 28

Yes, Americans seem to make strong verbs (internal vowel change) into weak ones (suffix -ed). I'm not sure if that's part of spelling reform, but it does reduce the number of irregular verbs Americans have to memorize. 'leap' (present tense) -> 'leapt' or 'leaped' 'spill' -> 'spilt' or 'spilled'

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HeartOfLead 24

What a wanker, people like that make me zick.

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alex540150 9

After you "spelt"? Hmm.....

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Ray_of_midnight 22

I'm an American and thanks to years of reading texts by British authors I sometimes inadvertently do the same thing, but in reverse. ('realise', 'colour', etc.) The problem is that to an American, using British spelling looks pretentious, and I've been called on that a bunch of times. FML.

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Ameel_fml 19

Even if you were wrong (you're not), it's a bizarre overreaction on your boyfriend's part to insult you and your mother for something as petty as a spelling error. Why do so many people get so upset/angry about spelling and grammatical errors? Nobody's perfect. And spelling one word wrong doesn't make anybody a "moron". Sounds like you dodged a bullet, OP. If he's like that over a spelling error, imagine what he'd be like over more important mistakes you might make. :/

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