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Instead of the words being spaced incorrectly, letters are spaced so close together that they appear to be different letters.
==== Advertising ====
* When Bic, a maker of disposable pens, introduced a line of disposable lighters, they advertised them with the slogan "Flick my Bic". In all-caps, so the "li" looked like a "u".
==== Real Life ====
* Under certain fonts, the word "click" actually looks like [[Freud Was Right|"dick"]].
** Comic writers tend not to use the word [[Country Matters|"clint"]]
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=== Purposefully Removing Letters ===
==== Real Life ====
* A popular gay cruising and hangout spot in the city of Manchester, England, is Canal Street. Unfortunately, people—not always mischievous heteros—will insist on stealing two letters from the street signs so they read " ANAL TREET"
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