Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading mispelled with a red wavy underline, like a spell-check mark, on an upper arm.

Mispelled with red spell-check underline

Lettering · Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

The tattoo spells the word mispelled in a clean, black sans-serif typeface, with the letter p dropping below the baseline. A red wavy line runs beneath the word, mimicking the squiggle a word processor shows for a spelling error. The photograph is a close crop on smooth skin with soft, even lighting and a plain dark background.

Lettering Upper arm Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Marjorie had been checking copy at the Gazette for thirty-one years, and the newsroom had long ago stopped asking her to explain herself. When the paper moved its subs desk to a glass box on the ring road, she was handed a leaving card the size of a tea tray, signed by everyone from the van driver to the features editor who still wrote "effect" when he meant "affect".

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Nobody had put a fancy message on the front. Instead, someone had written a single word in biro, copied from the margins of a thousand returned pages, spelled wrong on purpose, with a wavy red line drawn beneath it in the marker she kept for corrections. Eddie from the sports desk, who could not spell "Wednesday" with a clear conscience, had done the squiggle with a ruler and great care.

She laughed so hard the lift doors closed on her twice.

On the bus home she took the card out again and looked at the word. It was the only thing in the building that had ever agreed with her about what a mistake looked like. Everything else had needed fixing. Eddie had left her the one error she was allowed to keep.