an excuse as a search warrant for the spelling nazis to find you within your own home and take you to their Literary Concentration Camps.
-usually spotted within text such as most commonly mispelled words while the grammar is taken out of oral context
Excuse me, which of the four "easons" is it now?
Oh no! Quick, go to Switzerland before they search your home! It's neutral land! You'll be safe from their Perfect & Literate World Order!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)