What do they really know?

[crof]

I was passing a pet shop today and went in to see what kind of animals they stocked. They had Axolotls but on the tank it said "Xalotees"? I have never heard them called this and wondered if anyone else had?

 

[kyle]

Haha... sounds like someone doesn't know how to spell...

 

[coen]

I've seen it spelled wrong so many times, even I have to wonder sometimes how it's spelled correctly

 

[jennifer]

This is a new one! I have a list of all the misspellings I've ever seen for the word axolotl. I use this list in the hidden keywords tag for the axolotl caresheet, so people searching for a misspelling will find the right page.

Here is the current list:
axoltl, axotl, axolotle, axolatl, axoalotl, axalotle, axalotl, axolotol, axolotil, axalotil, axolot, axotot, axototl

If anyone has any other plausible spellings, I'll add those too.

 

[john]

The guy at pet store here in vancouver calls them axolotees. Me and a friend still laugh about it.

 

[coen]

A petstore here calls them "axelotl", maybe you should add that one too, it's how many dutch people pronounce it here, and thus writing it that way too.