Bad Speller & Autocorrect Hats

Autocorrect has long been a joke engine. NPR covered autocorrect fails in 2011, Jillian Madison turned the genre into the blog and book Damn You, Autocorrect!, and "Autocorrect can be your worst enema" is the kind of line the Barry Popik language blog notes is already printed on T-shirts and mugs. Then in June 2023 Apple announced that iOS 17 would stop autocorrecting the swear word to "ducking", which turned a decade of complaints into a small piece of internet history. The other half of this page is the proud bad speller. A Walmart tee already sells "Bad Spellers of the World Untie", and Reddit lists restaurant, maintenance, definitely, necessary and rhythm among the words people say they can never spell. A misspelled "California" stole at the CSU Stanislaus bookstore even earned buyers a swap and a $25 gift card, proof that nobody is safe. These hats put the bad speller and the victim of autocorrect in one place, as the flip side of our Grammar Nerd and Oxford Comma page. BAD SPELLER is the badge, and the lines carry the bits: the phonetic spelling delivered with confidence, the word weird breaking the i-before-e rule, and spellcheck giving up. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, a fair gift for the friend whose texts you decode.