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The Cleanic
Friday, September 7

I work in a clinic these days, and when patients come in sick they have to fill up their details, including their illness, on a registration slip.

Now, the patients that come in tend to be from lower educated backgrounds and have problems grappling with spelling, and this often ends up in weird misspelled illnesses and body parts. Here are some I can recall off the top of my head:

  • right angle sprain

  • cough with flame

  • elwo pain

  • dierrear

  • soar eyes

  • saw eyes

  • sour eyes

  • sheen injury

  • chess pain

  • fiver

  • flem

  • flew

  • mygrain

  • toothach

  • vormit

  • naseus

  • anoos

  • pulse (he meant piles)
Were you able to figure out what the payshens meant?