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In a triple A game I worked on, the PlayStation button enums were CROSS, SQUARE, TRIANGLE, and...... CRIRCLE.

Would drive me absolutely livid. But of course no one was allowed to fix is since it was already in a few different games, countless script files, network-controlled configs etc.....

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I feel your pain. A company I work for has a weird name that doesn't follow the rules of English spelling correctly (I can't say more without giving away the company name). This was an intentional decision and poses enough of a problem for guests visiting the company. But the absurd thing is this company decides to double down on it's troubles by naming all of it's projects using the same broken rule as the company title. Often these projects will be common English words re-spelt in the style of the company name. So now I'm often finding myself misspelling common words because of this stupid company name. And all of this is intentional too! Drives me nuts.

Googol?

At this point most students learning about that number assume it's misspelled when first introduced and incorrect the teacher.

>>incorrect the teacher.

Did you just use incorrect as a verb?

A favorite pastime of HN is users incorrecting each other on topics they know nothing about. ;)

Reminds me of this comic.

https://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2003/04/27

Verbing weirds language.

Beaten by ten years: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 :)

That's so discorrect.

unpossible!

postposterous!

I think we're way beyond postposterous. Think postpostposterous.

Reminds me of the occasional encounter with "deinstall" versus "uninstall."

That distinction is a little unrelevant, don't you think? Irregardlessly, you make a good point.

I see what you did here...

> it's troubles

> it's projects

> So now I'm often finding myself misspelling common words

> And all of this is intentional too!

:-D

You mean like Optimizely? I thought most startups these days had absurd adjectiverbnoun names.

A very long time ago we outsourced our Wordpress development and customization to a developer we found on a website who was from Moldova. He did pretty decent work and we got a great deal, but the HTML/CSS was a bane to work with. Almost half the DIV id's and such were spelled slightly wrong. Didn't affect the operation of the site but was very annoying to work with.

CROSS = 1

CRIRCLE = 2

CIRCLE = CRIRCLE

I remember Allegro used to have double functions for Palette and Pallet.

  You may notice that a lot of the code in Allegro spells 'palette' as 'pallete'. This is because the headers from my old Mark Williams compiler on the Atari spelt it with two l's, so that is what I'm used to.

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