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gd1 · 2015-06-08 12:08:09

Shouldn't 'bairn' be spelt that way and not 'barn' as in the article?

JadeNB | karma 5437 | avg karma 1.21 · | 2019-07-09 23:49:12

As, curiously, it is spelt everywhere in the article itself except the title.

DerekL | karma 940 | avg karma 1.14 · | 2024-02-23 05:26:41

It looks like the article also sometimes misspells it.

beardyw | karma 5394 | avg karma 1.7 · | 2023-05-20 05:51:46

And barley is correctly spelt, just not the intended word. A grammar check might have revealed it.

hsmyers | karma 1155 | avg karma 2.23 · | 2011-04-17 13:12:23

While I find the article interesting I am distracted by all of the dropped 'th' through out. Is this something intentional or a kind of strange error?

stavros | karma 66636 | avg karma 10.05 · | 2022-08-11 20:25:38

Yes, it's spelt correctly.

ncmncm | karma 13951 | avg karma 1.02 · | 2022-05-20 11:50:42

It was unusual to see it misspelled in a title. The article text had it right.

Verdex | karma 2042 | avg karma 3.65 · | 2019-06-06 17:01:49+00:00

It's probably safer to misspell it. I imagine it was intentional to avoid unexpected consequences.

reiichiroh | karma 795 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2020-10-26 16:37:36+00:00

It looks spelled correctly in the headline and throughout the article.

wtn | karma 977 | avg karma 3.27 · | 2021-01-07 20:16:10+00:00

The word is spelled incorrectly.

rchaud | karma 15048 | avg karma 2.21 · | 2021-02-26 14:54:34

They're quoting what he said, not what he wrote. It's a British news site, so using British spelling seems fine.

ZoF | karma 853 | avg karma 1.38 · | 2014-10-23 04:50:13+00:00

'Charactor' is also miss-spelt... It's intentional.

hnriot | karma 2105 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2013-03-14 14:18:29+00:00

It's spelled, not spelt

pvg | karma 14880 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2022-11-05 16:21:00

Yes it is normal. It doesn't necessarily imply the wrongness. It's an unusual spelling in British English and the annotation tells you the spelling is reproduced verbatim rather than someone at BBC mistyping it.

hprotagonist | karma 26857 | avg karma 5.92 · | 2023-12-14 19:41:39

it was spelt like that on t' van!

stevewodil | karma 853 | avg karma 2.19 · | 2022-02-10 21:09:27

Not in American English. That's spelled correctly.

DerekL | karma 940 | avg karma 1.14 · | 2022-04-28 16:12:55

It's also misspelled.

spooneybarger | karma 4390 | avg karma 3.48 · | 2010-06-13 13:12:58

the spelling error was intentional. see the end of the article.

whitepoplar | karma 4791 | avg karma 5.15 · | 2019-08-25 22:54:28+00:00

What's wrong with the spelling? He's from the UK.

dublinben | karma 8633 | avg karma 2.93 · | 2017-02-01 10:52:29

Those "pretentious" dots are the difference between a chicken coop and a worker coöp. They're to completely different words, and the spelling makes this clear.