Satiric misspelling

The currency symbols (¢, €, ￡, ₽, ₹, $, ₩, ¥) can be inserted in place of the letters (C, E, L, P, R, S, W, Y) to indicate plutocracy, greed, corruption, or the perceived immoral, unethical, or pathological accumulation of money. For example:

• Bu$h (for George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, or the Bush family)[12][13][14]
• Congre$$ (for United States Congress)[15]
• Co$ or $cientology (for the Church of Scientology):[16][17][18] see also Scientology controversies.
• Di$ney and Di$neyland (for The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland):[19] see also Criticism of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland § Tickets
• E$$o (for Esso): Used by the UK-based Stop Esso campaign encouraging people to boycott Esso, in protest against Esso's opposition to the Kyoto Protocol.[20]
• €urope (for Europe)[21]
• Ke$ha (singer-songwriter): adopted the dollar sign in her name while financially struggling as an ironic gesture.[22]
• Micro$oft, M$, M$FT (for Microsoft):[23][24] see also Criticism of Microsoft
• $ony (for Sony)[25][26]
• United $tates (for the United States)[27]

Occasionally a word written in its orthodox spelling is altered with internal capital letters, hyphens, italics, or other devices so as to highlight a fortuitous pun. Some examples:

• After the controversial 2000 United States presidential election, the alleged improprieties of the election prompted the use of such titles as "pResident" and "(p)resident" for George W. Bush.[28] The same effects were also used for Bill Clinton during and after Clinton's impeachment hearings. These devices were intended to suggest that the president was merely the resident of the White House rather than the legitimate leader.[28]
• The controversial United States law USA PATRIOT Act is sometimes called "USA PAT RIOT Act" or "(Pat)Riot Act" by its opponents.[29][30] This is done to avoid using the common term Patriot Act, which implies the law is patriotic.[29]
• Feminist theologian Mary Daly has used a slash to make a point about patriarchy: "gyn/ecology", "stag/nation", "the/rapist".[31]
• In French, where con is an insulting word meaning "moron", the word conservateur (conservative) has been written "con-servateur",[32] "con... servateur",[33] or "con(servateur)".[34] The American English term neo-con, an abbreviation of neo-conservative, becomes a convenient pun when used in French.[35] In English, the first syllable of conservative can be emphasized to suggest a con artist.[36]
• Netizens often called Sen. Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. as "MandaramBONG" (Filipino word for plunderer) to highlight allegations that he pocketed pork barrel funds through the use of fake non-government organizations.[37]
• Jair Bolsonaro has been called BolsoNero, due to the 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires and indifference to the COVID-19 pandemic.[38][39]

The negative squared letter B (🅱️; originally used to represent blood type B)[40] can be used to replace hard consonants as an internet meme. This originates from the practice of members of the Bloods replacing the letter C with the letter B, but has been extended to any consonant.[41][42] Common examples are:

• Ni🅱🅱a, replacing nigga.[41] This has been criticized as a way for non-Blacks to get around the taboo of saying the "N-word".[41]
• 🅱loods for Bloods[41]
• 🅱eter for Peter Griffin[41]

Along the same lines, intentional misspellings can be used to promote a specific negative attribute, real or perceived, of a product or service. This is especially effective if the misspelling is done by replacing part of the word with another that has identical phonetic qualities.

Journalists may make a politicized editorial decision by choosing to differentially retain (or even create) misspellings, mispronunciations, ungrammaticisms, dialect variants, or interjections.

The British political satire magazine Private Eye has a long-standing theme of insulting the law firm Carter-Ruck by replacing the R with an F to read Carter-Fuck. The law firm once requested that Private Eye cease spelling its name like that; the magazine then started spelling it "Farter-Fuck".[43] Likewise, Private Eye often refers to The Guardian as The Grauniad,[44] due to the newspaper's early reputation for typographical errors.[45]

• Eye dialect
• Herstory
• Leet
• Play on words
• Pun
• Sensational spelling
• Womyn

• On de spelling and use of various words by Mangwiro A. Sadiki-Yisrael