Spelling is sort of a thrilling passion of mine. I won the spelling bee in sixth grade and never looked back. Whether you’re a nerd like me, or you rely on auto-correct to help you sort out the i’s from the e’s, understand that there are some folks out there who think of the laws of English as a mere suggestion — and they’re taking their creativity to the walls of Twitter. Buzzfeed put together a top ten list of all the best (worst) misspellings on Twitter, and they’re even funnier than I expected. Take a look.
1. Vicariously. vicarious |vīˈkerēəs; vi-| adjective experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
2. Genius. genius |ˈjēnyəs| noun ( pl. geniuses ) exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability
3. Hypocrites. hypocrisy |hiˈpäkrisē| noun ( pl. -sies) the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense.
4. Angels. You know what angels are.
5. Manners. manners |ˈmanər| noun polite or well-bred social behavior
…Poor Hippocrates. I guess these just go to show, you don’t have to spell something correctly for it to become a trending topic. Gotta love the Interwebz. See the rest of the lineup at Buzzfeed.
What are your biggest spelling peeves?
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Kids are getting dumber and have more access to social media. That’s dreadful.
Can’t spell ambiance? You’re on a goddamn computer; don’t give me that crap.
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I find that people have the most trouble with your and you’re. I mean..seriously? And bicariously? really bicariously? I just threw up on my dog.
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Bleh, it happens. Kids spend more time online and less time reading books.
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I find the misspelling of cologne amusing.
Here are a couple of examples:
“I love it when you can still smell your boyfriend’s colon on you.
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“Love the smell of men colon mmm.”
“The smell of your colon is in the air.”
dahlia / 2747 posts
THE IRONY OF GENIUS.
and umbeyonce LOLOL.
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oh my god, cracking up. people are so dumb
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I always wanted a guardian angle. Preferably Tan….though I also fancy Sine.
Y they hate on Hippocrates? He be my homeboy.
daisy / 603 posts
I love all the ones who tweeted about living “bicuriously!” lol hilarious!
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@heart_leigh@xanga - I never want to smell men’s colon on me! LOL I don’t know what I would do if I read that somewhere!
I secretly enjoy it when people typo on social media sites. Then I get to feel snarky and self-important.
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Hahahahahahaha. When I was like eight I made the password on our family computer “angle123.” My parents asked what the password was and I was like, “angel123,” and when they couldn’t get it I helped them out… A-N-G-L-E-1-2-3. Haha. Haven’t gotten it wrong since (I was eight).
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HAHAHA I too am a spelling nazi
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LMAO.
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@KliffyTaicho@xanga - Don’t forget to/too/two and there/they’re/their.
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some girl can’t spell for her life & she’s asking other people who raised THEM? smh
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And there’s no one there to correct them.
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sigh sigh sigh
daffodil / 1607 posts
OMG
I CAN’TSTOP LAUGHINGHOLY CRAPOMG HAHAHAHA
orchid / 194 posts
Gah, I hate it when people don’t have those manor houses on their tables. I mean, really.
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Bwahahhhhhhh shuddering right now haha.
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haha
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the other day I saw someone using apostrophes when they were using plurals…like this:
there were a lot of cat’s in the room
x_x oh dear
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hahaha I never knew so many people hated on Hippocrates. What did he ever do wrong?
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Is it really that hard to just download spellchecker for your browser? No. In fact, I feel like most of them just come with it anyway. Chrome spell checks me and I didn’t do anything. It seems like they just don’t give a shit and ignore the red squiggles on their screen.
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I am embarrased for people that do not know how to spell. This is my biggest pet peeve misspellings and bad grammar! In the United States we receive a FREE education, these errors should not happen, can we not have just a little pride in ourselves?
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Wow, people can be pretty damn dumb, can’t they?
orchid / 217 posts
this has to be my biggest pet peeve. If you don’t know how to spell it, look it up or use a different word. And please don’t act insulted if I correct your obviously wrong spelling.
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Bicuriously is definitely my favourite. But genious comes a close second, oh the irony
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*facepalm*
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@heart_leigh@xanga - oh my word. that’s hilarious. thanks for sharing. haha XD
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@CuriousGorgeous@xanga - …do you realize you have a spelling error and a few grammatical errors in your comment? haha
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geez, people. i’m sorry my parents couldn’t afford manors. that doesn’t make them bad parents.
edit: yeah, and minutes after reading this, i stumble across the misspelling “surrived”.
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@danaenicole@xanga - May I ask what they are? I am always up for bettering myself but do sometimes miss things in the speedy typing process (mostly things such as commas etc)
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@CuriousGorgeous@xanga - Embarrassed, for one
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@heart_leigh@xanga - oh my god! i’m literally cracking up! oh the smell of colon! bwahahahah!!!
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@CuriousGorgeous@xanga - as fallenreign pointed out, you spelled “embarrassed” wrong. there should be a colon after “pet peeve” and since you list both misspellings and bad grammar, the first part of that sentence should be plural. also, the last sentence should be three sentences; you have two comma splices.
i’m studying to be an english teacher, so i’m trying to learn more about proper grammar and spelling.
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It was so painful reading all those errors. And… really…? Angle’s watching over me? As much as I loved algebra and learning how to solve for the angle of X, I never once thought that they would be watching over me. Okay, sorry, lame ass joke.
My biggest spelling peeves / misused words are “worst” when people mean worse,”than” when they mean then, and the mix-ups between their/they’re/there. Is it really THAT difficult to learn the difference between these words? I understand if English isn’t their first language, so they make these types of mistakes. But most of these mistakes come from people who were born and raised in the States, where English is the national language, and education is mandatory. Such a shame.
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@KliffyTaicho@xanga - poor dog
he didn’t misspell anything
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@FallenReign@xanga - @danaenicole@xanga - I did go back and see I misspelled embarrassed which is funny because when I spell checked I saw how to spell it and still forgot that second “s”. When it comes to things like semicolons I do tend to skip unless I am writing say a school paper but really I can’t just make one long sentence and separate with commas? I am pretty sure that is an option.
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This is the best post ever.
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literally loling in class right now reading these, especially the angels one. :’)
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I don’t really find this funny. I find it sad. People make themselves look like idiots and they don’t even care. Even worse, they give those of us who do pay attention to spelling crap for it.
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hahahaha I gotta say bicuriously is my favorite one. that doesn’t even sound the same, at least umbeyonce was an attempt at sounding it out!
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This generation reads and writes more than any other recent generation but SOMEHOW MISSPELLS EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME.
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‘;LKJHGFDSAQWERTYUIOP[]=-0987654321`QWERTYUIOP[]\
‘;LKJHGFDSAZxcvbnm,./
‘;lkjhgfeeling too anal-retentive to punch keyboard randomly; must punish each individual key in sequencertyuiop[]\
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orchid / 124 posts
Bahaha! I love it.
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omg i can’t… too many tears… abs are hurting…
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@CuriousGorgeous@xanga - nope. unless you want to make them a list of sentences. but that would sound weird. you can combine two sentences with a semicolon. i don’t think you can combine three. commas can’t connect two or more dependent clauses unless you’re making a list as i mentioned before. in that case, you’d just add an “and” after the second comma.
and yeah, i assumed you know how to spell “embarrassed”. haha.
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HAHAHAHHAHAH
(:
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I was always a bigger fan of Cicero than Hippocrates.
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This made me laugh so much! My husband and I both studied English for undergrad, and we got a kick out of this. Great post!
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@KliffyTaicho@xanga - Yeah the “your/you’re” thing really pisses me off. Especially when they can’t decide which one to use, for example: “your coming to the movie right? can we take you’re car?”
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Also, were there pictures for genius and manners? They didn’t load for me..
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@SHEERROSE@xanga - Yeah but he deserves it, the bastard.
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And I thought people who constantly misused your and you’re were bad…or there their and they’re…but really? Umbeyonce? There is this AWESOME invention on your computer. It’s called spell check. My computer underlined umbeyonce the second I hit the space bar. Crazy how that works.
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@galadrielspitcher@xanga - there’s something like that in my break room at work. Every time I see it I want to put my head through a wall. The worst part is, it wasn’t there when the poster was printed…someone actually took a sharpie and “corrected” it.
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lmao! wtf? english isn’t even my first language and i still know better.
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There are typo’s and there are bad spellers, then there are people who don’t know their vocabulary.
I’m pretty good with vocabulary and understanding language but I will never be a good speller. I mostly spell phonetically correct. I am in no means an idiot or stupid. I’m also not dumb. (At a loss for words, can not speak, mute.)
I know this post was all in good fun but still it was mean spirited and it did annoy me a bit… As I’m sure spelling and grammar errors annoy you.
No hard feelings in for anyone posting. Just commenting with my thoughts.
Continue your fun
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I wish I had a manor… Much less multiple manors… I like how some of those people claim to be geniuses and yet… They can’t spell it correctly..? Really? BICURIOUSLY? That’s got to be a joke, right? I don’t know if I have any pet peeves when it comes to certain words being misspelled… However, I do get annoyed when people can’t differentiate between “then” and “than.”