If you’ve been thinking about going vegetarian or vegan, here’s a novel reason to choose vegan: it’s easier to spell.
Here’s a challenge for you. Think about all the different ways you could misspell ‘vegetarian.’ Now if you multiply that number by three you’ll have an idea of the number of variations I’ve seen online.
Here are some of the most frequent offenders:
vegeterian
vegiterian
vegatarian
veggetarian
But there’s also:
veggietarian
vegahtarian
vejatarian
And my personal favorite:
fegatarian
Fegatarian! Didn’t even get the first letter right! I thought most people could get it from the root word, ‘vegetable.’ But it seems people have trouble with that too, vegtable and vegtible being among the horrors I’ve witnessed.
Don’t get me wrong. I can’t spell to save myself. If it weren’t for the trusty spell-check, someone else would be writing this post about me. And I realise there are a lot of people using this word for whom English is not their first language. I of course would be struggling to find the word for ‘vegetarian’ if I was in Europe or South America, let alone be able to spell it. This is a light-hearted post. Relax.
Actually I’ve been looking at the word so long now I can’t remember which is the correct version. Spell-check!
- George
