Realms of Ignorance
That grandiose title is simply meant to convey that people can be stupid about some things and not others. I enjoy a good collection of people saying stupid things on the internet as much as anyone; this one , for example. All of these are cases of people being too ignorant for most people even to fathom, but let's consider how they are being ignorant for a moment. Several are, of course, about spelling, or knowing the sound of a word without thinking of what it really represents: "hall of cost" for holocaust, "meaty oaker" for mediocre (that one gets me every time), "flaming young" for filet mignon, "synonym rolls" for cinnamon rolls, "Rosetta Stone" for Rosa Parks. Although they evince terrible spelling, in none of these cases is the person getting the meaning wrong because of misunderstanding the root. The last one is not so much spelling as a person who has heard a name getting it mixed up with something that sounds simil...