diff --git a/content/en/docs/tasks/manage-kubernetes-objects/kustomization.md b/content/en/docs/tasks/manage-kubernetes-objects/kustomization.md
index f391b37e09..cca985705b 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/tasks/manage-kubernetes-objects/kustomization.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/tasks/manage-kubernetes-objects/kustomization.md
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ metadata:
 type: Opaque
 ```
 
-Like ConfigMaps, generated Secrets can be used in Deployments by refering to the name of the secretGenerator:
+Like ConfigMaps, generated Secrets can be used in Deployments by referring to the name of the secretGenerator:
 
 ```shell
 # Create a password.txt file
diff --git a/scripts/.spelling_failures b/scripts/.spelling_failures
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b0d9e0815
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/.spelling_failures
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+content/en/blog/_posts/2016-05-00-Coreosfest2016-Kubernetes-Community.md
+content/en/blog/_posts/2016-10-00-Dynamic-Provisioning-And-Storage-In-Kubernetes.md
+content/en/blog/_posts/2017-02-00-Postgresql-Clusters-Kubernetes-Statefulsets.md
+content/en/blog/_posts/2018-06-28-Airflow-Kubernetes-Operator.md
+content/en/blog/_posts/2018-10-02-network-bootable-farm-with-ltsp.md
+content/en/blog/_posts/2019-03-19-kubeedge-k8s-based-edge-intro.md
+content/en/blog/_posts/2020-05-06-third-party-dual-sourced-content.md
+content/en/blog/_posts/2020-05-21-wsl2-dockerdesktop-k8s.md
+content/en/blog/_posts/2020-07-27-kubernetes-1-17-release-interview.md
+
diff --git a/scripts/verify-spelling.sh b/scripts/verify-spelling.sh
index c259d65ddb..2871dfa76a 100755
--- a/scripts/verify-spelling.sh
+++ b/scripts/verify-spelling.sh
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 ##########
 # This script verifies mispellings in location. Today it only supports
-# verifying English locale but can be modified in a future to support 
-# also other locales.
+# verifying English locale but can be modified in a future to support
+# other locales also
 # You need to run this script inside the root directory of "website" git repo.
-# 
+#
 # Syntax: verify-spelling.sh LOCALE
 # Example: verify-spelling.sh en
 # If no locale is passed, it will assume "en"
-# 
+#
 # Requirements:
 # - go v1.14 or superior version
 
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ set -o pipefail
 
 TOOL_VERSION="v0.3.4"
 
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
+
 LANGUAGE="${1:-en}"
 # cd to the root path
 ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd -P)"
@@ -60,10 +62,15 @@ cd "${ROOT}"
 RES=0
 echo "Checking spelling..."
 ERROR_LOG="${TMP_DIR}/errors.log"
-git ls-files | grep content/${LANGUAGE} | xargs misspell > "${ERROR_LOG}"
+
+# NOTE we usually don't correct old blog articles, so we ignore them in
+# this file.
+skipping_file="${KUBE_ROOT}/scripts/.spelling_failures"
+failing_packages=$(sed "s| | -e |g" "${skipping_file}")
+git ls-files -z | grep --null-data "^content/${LANGUAGE}" | grep --null-data -v -e "${failing_packages}" | xargs -0 -r misspell > "${ERROR_LOG}"
 if [[ -s "${ERROR_LOG}" ]]; then
   sed 's/^/error: /' "${ERROR_LOG}" # add 'error' to each line to highlight in e2e status
-  echo "Found spelling errors!"
+  echo "Found spelling errors!" >&2
   RES=1
 fi
 exit "${RES}"