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[xoggoth]

The story was total BBC tulip apparently.

Lancashire police say 'terrorist house' incident not about spelling mistake | Home News | News | The Independent

[BrilloPad]

Schoolboy who wrote story about the Iris in his garden spellchecking thoroughly

[ZARDOZ]

I used to live in a terrorist house for christmas my parents got me a bomber jacket. IGMC

[BrilloPad]

MF is quite a terror round these forums.

Can someone call the filth please?

[mudskipper]

I made similar error when younger and teacher pointed it out to my mum during parents evening, we had to write the usual stuff on a Monday at infant school 'What we did at weekend', that weekend my mums car exhaust had come off while driving to Stockport shopping, she pulled over and someone helped her to secure the exhaust with her tights, but I had spelt tights as tits

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

I made similar error when younger and teacher pointed it out to my mum during parents evening, we had to write the usual stuff on a Monday at infant school 'What we did at weekend', that weekend my mums car exhaust had come off while driving to Stockport shopping, she pulled over and someone helped her to secure the exhaust with her tights, but I had spelt tights as tits

[scooterscot]

It's not really a spelling error. A spelling error would be terracced or teracced house. It's a using completely the wrong word error; it seems a lot more likely he did it deliberately as a joke.

I was going to say something similar. I suppose that makes me a procrastinating pettifogger.

[xoggoth]

It is an overreaction if they didn't bother to speak to the boy and a couple of others about their "interesting" stories before calling the police. I bet if they had the boy would have said terraced.

Quite. Our authorities just swing from one daft position to another, first ignoring real extremism out of political correctness, then overreacting to trivial things. Neither is helpful.

[LondonManc]

Good point. You'd be pleasantly surprised, though, if the teacher would be intelligent enough to work that one out.

FTFY

[GJABS]

It would be really concerning to teachers if he brought some terracotta figurines into class. Or if he said his dog was a terrier. Or a laptop with a 1 Terrabyte drive.
Terrific.

[VectraMan]

One does wonder what he actually wrote - terrorist, or something like terrist?

Good point. You'd hope the teacher would be intelligent enough to work that one out.

[mudskipper]

It's not really a spelling error. A spelling error would be terracced or teracced house. It's a using completely the wrong word error; it seems a lot more likely he did it deliberately as a joke.

One does wonder what he actually wrote - terrorist, or something like terrist?

[NickFitz]

It's not really a spelling error. A spelling error would be terracced or teracced house. It's a using completely the wrong word error; it seems a lot more likely he did it deliberately as a joke.

He's 10. It's not unusual for kids that age to come up with such malapropisms.

[VectraMan]

It's not really a spelling error. A spelling error would be terracced or teracced house. It's a using completely the wrong word error; it seems a lot more likely he did it deliberately as a joke.

[MrMarkyMark]

Waste of police time. Social services would be more appropriate for a child being forced to live in a terraced house.

The boy, who lives in Accrington in Lancashire

You would have thought living in Accrington would be punishment enough.

IMO, they should have locked him up, therefore, preventing any possibility of anything happening in future.