Early Texas governors were not very well educated. There was once a chief executive who thought “grammar” was his father’s mother. On one occasion this governor went hunting and forgot his gun. He phoned his secretary and asked him to send the gun. “The phone connection’s bad,” said the secretary. “I couldn’t catch that last word. Spell it.” The governor replied, ” ‘G’ like in Jesus; ‘U’ like in onion; ‘N’ like in pneumonia GUN, you damn fool!”
Category: Spelling jokes
I gotta A in
I gotta A in spelling, Tony told his father. “You dope!” he replied. “There isn’t any ‘A’ in ‘spelling’!”
Daughter: I will never learn to
Daughter: I will never learn to spell. Mother: Why? Daughter: The teacher keeps changing the words.
The young lad had applied for a job, and was
The young lad had applied for a job, and was asked his full name. “Aloysius Montmorency Geoghan,” he replied. “How do you spell that?” asked the manager. “Er ? sir ? er ? can’t you just put it down without spelling it?”
First witch: Here’s a banana
First witch: Here’s a banana if you can spell it. Second witch: I can spell banana. I just don’t know when to stop.
How do you spell wrong? R?o?n?g.
How do you spell wrong? R?o?n?g. That’s wrong. That’s what you asked for, isn’t it?
School Doctor:
School Doctor: Have you ever had trouble with appendicitis? Fred: Only when I tried to spell it.
Please, maam! How do you spell ichael?
Please, maam! How do you spell ichael? The teacher was rather bewildered. “Don’t you mean Michael?” she asked. “No, ma’am. I’ve written the ‘M’ already.”