I have been trying to recover in SERPs for months. Recently ran a spelling check program on my site that has found thousands of misspelled words. These words are misspelled by design. Reasons include:

1. Helping people pronounce words by respelling them phonetically.
2. Words in multiple foreign languages and different dialects of English.
3. Multiple instances where correctly spelled words are concatenated (yes, by design).

I seem to have seen a slight increase in site wide rankings after fixing several spelling changes that were in-fact mistakes. Unfortunately, the major majority of misspelled words (and sometimes grammatical errors) I cannot change without losing the intent and purpose of the page.

My competitors in my vertical do not take on the challenges that I address - and though I feel the content I put forth is far superior to my competitors (by my own opinion and the tens-of-thousands of comments received from visitors), I wonder if I am in fact being penalized by taking on these challenges - but having a large amount of misspellings.

Maybe google needs a <meta name="no - I know these are misspelled, this is really the way this page is supposed to be"> tag...

Or is there a way to get google to understand or avoid these words (without blocking google from the whole page)? If they had a human working in the depths of robot-algo-dom that could look at the pages, they would understand and see the obvious need for the 'perceived-errors' on my pages.