Creative spellings I've witnessed or heard about this semester:
Opedidus Rex, the famous play by Sophocles
Oddyssey (the student was perhaps commenting on Odysseus' questioning of heroic ideals?)
Oddisseous
The 'profit' Tiresias
For the record, I don't grade on spelling and I have some respect for student's efforts to deal with words and names that are clearly not part of their everyday vocabulary. On the other hand, phonetic spellings like the third above make me wonder how often this particular student has seen the name in print, in his or her textbook.
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