1786: Pet Sematary Nov 4, 2019

Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary' purposefully uses a misspelling of 'cemetery' for the title. This was supposed to imitate how a child might think to spell 'cemetery'. How this relates to the nature of the horror is up to you, but many people instead assumed that this is either the American or British—whichever he or she was unfamiliar with—and the Internet searches back this up.

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