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If you're going to over use the word methinks you spell it correctly

88 replies

goodnessgracious · 03/12/2014 17:19

Aibu to start to hate the word methinks. Used in Facebook status updates too frequently by people who can't spell it.

Grin
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Hatespiders · 03/12/2014 17:26

I'm not on Facebook. So how do they spell it?

greengagemutantgingermyrtle · 03/12/2014 17:27

How the fuck does one spell 'methinks' wrong?

Fluffyears · 03/12/2014 17:35

'On route' gets on my wick! If you want to be fancy get it right!

TiggyD · 03/12/2014 17:37

They're tuncs!

LumpenproletariatAndProud · 03/12/2014 17:38

On route fucks me right off, as does 'wide birth' Hmm

But since Im shit at general grammar and spelling at feel I have no right to say anything,

I will be on route and give this subject a wide birth and tow the line (to boot) .

AlbertGiordino · 03/12/2014 17:43

all these are top draw

Hatespiders · 03/12/2014 17:49

I'm still mystified, OP. Come on, put me out of my misery - how do they spell it?

vulgarwretch · 03/12/2014 17:54

I need to know too. I found this article which includes 'methinks' as one of the top 8 annoying phrases/words used on the internet. But it didn't mention how to misspell it.

sunflower49 · 03/12/2014 17:55

Metinks? (That can be used as a play on speech, though)?
Mefinks (cringe)

Methinx ?

I'm running out of steam...

Jasharps · 03/12/2014 17:56

YANBU methinks

Hate it.

OTheHugeManatee · 03/12/2014 17:56

Methings?

Discopanda · 03/12/2014 18:14

Not as bad as 'Is this aloud?' or I know someone who keeps using the phrases 'ball shit' and 'dame right'.

ArmyDad · 03/12/2014 18:21

Pardon my ignorance but what is wrong with on route?

nocoolnamesleft · 03/12/2014 18:24

Methinks the lady doth protest too much...

TimelyNameChangey · 03/12/2014 18:29

OP come back at once and tell us the misspelling!

I hate people who say "Why oh why..." and go on to complain about something.

I also hate "Note to self" which people seem to use on FB as a way of being amusing when it just sounds like they're in Bridget Jones.

I hate MANY turns of phrase.

"Stumped" and "Cheesed off" are particularly ugly.

TimelyNameChangey · 03/12/2014 18:30

army it's En Route....french.

RoseCavallari · 03/12/2014 18:31

Pardon my ignorance but what is wrong with on route?

I think its suppose to be en route

divingoffthebalcony · 03/12/2014 18:32

I know someone who keeps using the phrases 'ball shit' and 'dame right'.

Haha!

"I'm on tender hooks" bugs the shit out of me.

AnotherGirlsParadise · 03/12/2014 18:34

'Free reign'. Fuck off.

Summerisle1 · 03/12/2014 18:34

Methinks that you may have missed a comma out of that thread title, OP.

But for all that, what was the misspelling?

TimelyNameChangey · 03/12/2014 18:57

"I brought a new top today"

Angry

WHERE TO!? WHERE did you bring it you fool!

TimelyNameChangey · 03/12/2014 18:58

Perhaps OP sees people writing "Me thinks"

Me thinks OP is a pedant....I am too.

Like that.

ArmyDad · 03/12/2014 19:04

But doesn't "en route" mean on route?

AvonCallingBarksdale · 03/12/2014 19:06

Yes, literally "on the route", but it's a French expression, so it's got to be en route that's the law

MasqueradeWaltzer · 03/12/2014 19:09

I bet the misspelling is 'me thinks' - but does that count as misspelling or is it misspacing?