Spelling Airs
We all know that nearly all cake decorators misspell “congratulations” every day. (Um, John? I don’t think…) This is obviously because they’re either drunk or completely incompetent. (Okay now, we’re totally gonna get in trouble for that…) Now you might be saying, “I thought all drunk and completely incompetent people were politicians?” (Well, that’s true.) But you would be wrong! (I would?) Which brings us back to cake. (Oh, good.) See? Comgratation . Interestingly enough, there are close to 3,000 accepted spellings of ” congradulationed ” in the decorators’ dictionary. Occasionally, though, they do spell it goodly: Like so. Of course, sometimes after successfully spelling a word the thrill goes to the baker’s head. Thusly we get ” Ternifer ” – a hybrid creation of “Terrific” and the name of the person who ordered the cake, perhaps? Here again the decorator got the “hard” word right: Sure, the number’s a bit, well, wrong…but hey, numbers are hard! Wisites : n. [ wi -SET- eez ] Small, fuzzy mammals indigenous to Uganda prized for their venom, which is said to cure gout and certain types of restless leg syndrome. See? No misspellings here! Well, ya’ll have a grrr – reat day now. Oh, and decorators? Bottoms up! Jessica E., Christy C., Dana S., & Jessica, watch out; I hear those wisites …
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