It's not a disease of the illiterate you know! FLU not FLUE - the latter is a pipe to let fumes out

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Sorry but it's such a short word, actually an abbreviation for influenza - so I can see where people get confused but it's on every newspaper for goodness sake. Come on people, you may all be dying but please maintain some standards

you mean it's definitely not spelt FLEW?

shoudl it be 'flu?

lol

this should be on pedants corner

every time i google it, i type flue,
aargh,

did you mean swine flu? is the pat answer

I was state educated you see!

I know it's flu. But my fingers always type flue!

No excuse for flue. Diarrhea is a tricky one though. Hence frequent references to the shits.

Lol! Yes Swine Flue - I'm imagining a chimney with a pig waving out of it A sort of surreal Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

I thought it was diarrhoea?

Swine...pig....flu....flew...am starting to get visions of flying pigs: flue induced hallucination?

and one of the symptoms is rhinorrhea!

runny nose to the majority of us

"did you mean swine flu? is the pat answer"

ha ha, yes, google is just so smug, isn't it?

Elibean it probably is diarrhoea. My spellcheck is always 'correcting' words to the US version. I have slapped it but it still does.

rhinorrhea - eh?

yup,
runny nose

A great bit of spelling from the Express here (it's in the headline too):

www.express.co.uk/posts/view/114665/Swine-flue-threat-to-holidays

I haven't seen any previous flu stories in the Express, are they usually this bad?!

squeakywheel - that is particularly horrific - considering they got it right at least once. Maybe the subs are all busy oinking!!!!

No, really, Sir Trevor would have a heart attack.