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By Anonymous - 23/02/2012 13:49 - United States

Today, I was writing my rough draft of an essay, and I forgot how to spell a word. I waited for auto correct to help. I was writing on paper. FML

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By katier8295 - 27/10/2012 12:43 - Australia - Perth

Today, I was writing out palm cards and didn't know if I'd spelled a word correctly, so I stared at it for about 10 seconds waiting for spell check to tell me if it was right or not before I realised I was writing on paper. FML

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By slcbabii23 - 01/10/2009 07:56 - United States

Today, I realized how much I'm on the computer. I tried to "CTRL+Z" on something I wrote down on my paper. FML

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By The Wherewolf - 08/10/2023 19:30

Today, I was so tired at work that I typed out "wherehouse" instead of "warehouse" in a document shared with my co-workers. It took me several seconds to realize why the heck the spell checker had underlined "wherehouse" in red. FML

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Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!

By Anonymous - 15/08/2017 11:30 - New Zealand - Auckland

Today, I was writing an essay while sleep-deprived. In between actually writing, I started typing my thoughts. It was only after I’d submitted the essay that I realized that I hadn’t deleted the random words. My teacher can see my early-morning rambling about potatoes. I have no way to delete it. FML

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By Anonymous - 09/09/2009 04:27 - United States

Today, I realized I forgot to write a 5000 word essay for my English class. I tried to be calm since I had until midnight to finish, and it was only 8pm. I typed for three hours straight,and finished the assignment. I read over the instruction again, and realized it only had to be 500 words. FML

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By lrn2spel, teach - This FML is from back in 2013 but it's good stuff - United States - Mogadore

Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML

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By Fml24609 - 09/08/2010 08:29 - United States

Today, I misspelled the word "failure" in front of all my co-workers. Now I'm not given any writing tasks. FML

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By TeachingSucks - 17/05/2023 11:00 - United States - Cabot

Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML

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By Anonymous - 22/09/2009 14:12 - United States

Today, I realized I had misspelled "Education" on all the resumes I've been submitting. FML

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By shaifox96 - 17/04/2015 03:34 - Canada - Saint Catharines

Today, I received a terrible grade for an essay I worked really hard on. I had two friends, one being an English major, check it over. However, apparently I "clearly didn't use spellcheck" on this essay just like the last one I submitted to her. FML

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alpaquette91 9

Thursday 23 February 2012 18:49

Oh the 2012 generation!

cradle6 13

Thursday 23 February 2012 18:52

I hope you remembered to save your paper every few minutes just in case! I mean, what if the power went out!?

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KaR1sma 6

Thursday 23 February 2012 22:24

Im pretty sure everyone has had a blonde moment too..

immaMonsta 8

Thursday 23 February 2012 22:26

And sadly, I'm a part of this generation...fortunately for me the technology hasn't hindered me at all. I can spell correctly, do math in my head, remember history dates and times without the use of technology...so OP, what's your excuse?

lily39_fml 0

Thursday 23 February 2012 22:41

That's happened to me too...

perdix 29

Thursday 23 February 2012 22:41

All you have to do is hover your mouse over the word and the correct spelling will pop up. However, since it's real paper, you have to hover a real, live mouse. Back in my day, cats used to congregate around English finals ;)

tugman53 0

Thursday 23 February 2012 22:57

And your the future generation. wow that's sad..

Swiko 11

Thursday 23 February 2012 23:19

113- you're* Sincerely, the future generation.

mballma1 1

Thursday 23 February 2012 23:19

You're a dumbass.

FaithDawson 8

Thursday 23 February 2012 23:20

Ahaha! You're just an idiot!:)

dohboi 2

Thursday 23 February 2012 23:25

Wow!

sweettpie129 11

Thursday 23 February 2012 23:31

Haha I was in class once and we had to find specific quotes from a book and my friend tried to command f it so he wudnt have to look it was sad

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