Give Me A C! What Doesn't It Spell?

[jmccarty3]

There is no doubt that Sheaffer has the most orthographically challenging name of any fountain pen company.

 

As an aid to the thousands of FPN members who have mangled the word over the years, I humbly offer the following ditty, to the tune of "Without a Song."

 

 

Without a C,

the word is spelled just right.

When E precedes

the A, you've got it right.

Two Fs come next

to make the name take flight.

Without a C.

[linearM]

Like your ditty, should help spelling Chaefer.

 

Then I have the problem with the spell check on my vintage pens never working very well! I'm wondering if anyone else has the same problem?

[inkstainedruth]

Heck, I was having trouble this afternoon on another (non-pen) website because the [expletive deleted] autocorrect kept trying to change my XML/HTML/(whatever) code tags to make italic text (<i> and </i>) into capital letters. (It was doing it here, too, just now, until I beat it into submission...).

But then, I was raised with a last name (Payes) that was routinely garbled (my mother, who's maiden name was Cosgrove, thought "It's only 5 letters -- how could people mess it up?" Then she found out....

Morrisson? It gets misspelled all the time -- but invariably gets misspelled the same way.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[jmccarty3]

I get "McCarthy" from most people from the South, and from EVERYONE from the North.

[Tweel]

[bsenn]

I get "McCarthy" from most people from the South, and from EVERYONE from the North.

Not from people in West Allis, WI. We swim, play softball, and ice skate at McCarty Park.

[AL01]

Scheaffer?

[AL01]

Not from people in West Allis, WI. We swim, play softball, and ice skate at McCarty Park.

 

 

Pettit National Ice Center. Ice skate here instead. Please.

[jmccarty3]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but a post over in the ink forum that was replete with misspellings of our beloved pen maker inspired the following, with apologies to John Keats:

 

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,

And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I saw "Sheaffer" spelt right loud and bold.

[3rdlakerobert]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but a post over in the ink forum that was replete with misspellings of our beloved pen maker inspired the following, with apologies to John Keats:

 

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,

And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;

Round many western islands have I been

Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told

That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;

Yet did I never breathe its pure serene

Till I saw "Sheaffer" spelt right loud and bold.

 

 

A Texan quoting Keats!

[jmccarty3]

A Texan quoting Keats!

 

Why would you consider that unusual?

[AL01]

Don't forget about Parcer Pens!!

[nigelg]

........... and Conway Stuart.

Sounds like a 1930's ham actor.

[mitto]

In our DESI tone we call them Shaifarr.

[AL01]

I heard a Janab say Lam, (as in 'Alif Lam Mem'), ay, (as in the letter 'a'). Usually I hear "Lam-Me" or "LAm - Me", (capital A as in the letter 'a').