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misspeller en · NOUN

Etymology

From misspell + -er.

Meanings

1. One who spells incorrectly.
   • We treat a misspelled word like a crime and penalize the misspeller severely; many teachers talk of making children develop a “spelling conscience,” and fail otherwise excellent papers because of a few spelling mistakes. 2005, John Holt, The Underachieving School, page 63:
   • One of the reasons that dialect verse was automatically taken as humorous was the success of the great misspellers. 2014, Eric L. Haralson, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, page 364:

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