Talk:Sensational spelling/Archives/2013
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Dodging Rules
The article currently contains this sentence: "It has also occasionally been used to dodge regulations which dictate how much of an ingredient a product must contain in order to be featured on the label." Do we have a reference for this? I know that the Avery Schreiber quote above implies this in a sort of whimsical way, but I also know that "Smoky Bacon flavoured potato crisps" are suitable for vegetarians, so clearly it is legal to use a word like bacon or fruit to describe the flavour even if this flavour is created chemically without any use of actual bacon or fruit; as long as you are only saying it tastes LIKE it, you are OK. And actually, if the advertising WERE in breach of trade descriptions laws, I doubt if a sensational spelling would protect the producers from prosecution. If they actually said "this contains froot" when it contains no fruit, they could be prosecuted for deliberately misleading advertising. --Doric Loon (talk) 13:24, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
- OK, three years on we've still been given no example of this, so I removed it from the article. I'm not sure this has ever been tested in court in a trades descriptions case, but misspelling a word would not be a defense for claims made in breach of civil law, be it libel, contract, copyright or trades descriptions.--Doric Loon (talk) 08:37, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
1960s bands
According to the Led Zeppelin article, the band's name was intentionally misspelled so that people wouldn't mispronounce it; there is no mention of its also having a double meaning. I would drop the part about double meanings (or make it specific to The Beatles) in order to keep Led Zeppelin as an example and allow for others.
The spellings of The Monkees and The Byrds were both influenced by The Beatles. The first is a parody, while the second (like Harpers Bizarre) is more of a pun than a misspelling (which might also be said of The Beatles for that matter).
Other examples from the 1960s might include The Cyrkle, The Goodees, The Murmaids, The Stone Poneys, The Tymes, and The Whyte Boots. Again, double meanings do not seem to be the common thread here. Richard K. Carson (talk) 02:21, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
This novelty song from the '40s seems to be something along these lines, but I'm not sure exactly how it fits in. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:52, 4 July 2013 (UTC)