I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here

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The English entry for I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here is 63 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Said in reference to the hypocrisy of officials who are supposed to police illicit activities but engage in those activities themselves.".

No misspelling variants are generated for I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: Said by the character Capt. Louis Renault (Claude Rains) in the 1942 film Casablanca, immediately prior to receiving his cut of the gambling proceeds. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here, spelled I-'-M- -S-H-O-C-K-E-D-,- -S-H-O-C-K-E-D-,- -T-O- -F-I-N-D- -T-H-A-T- -G-A-M-B-L-I-N-G- -I-S- -G-O-I-N-G- -O-N- -I-N- -H-E-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.