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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A gag where a character corrects another's spelling or grammar in a context where you wouldn't usually expect it. A common setup is when a note (either of love or insult) is sent to someone, only to have it come back with all the spelling mistakes highlighted, or for extra hubris, notes like "See me" as if from a teacher, as this is the inevitable result whenever a student attempts to write a love note to their teacher. This is also a common tactic used by butlers and upscale servicefolk to distract a hysterical guest. On the flipside of showing intelligence, this trope can also be used to show that someone is Comically Missing the Point. Also, fairly often, the "grammatical error" will be more of a point of style that's not actually considered incorrect grammar by anyone but pedants (such as that prepositions are bad things to end sentences with.note This is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put!) — writers who really want to Show Their Work may have the corrected party reply to that effect. Less often, the "error" might actually be technically correct, but this will only be known to really hardcore grammarians.note For example, "that'll learn 'em" actually comes from an archaic meaning of the verb "to learn" which means "to teach". Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Do this on a forum, and the comeback is likely to be "Grammar Nazi". Or "grammer nazee", as the case may be. Or perhaps, "Grammar Gestapo", if you will. Responding that you were correcting their spelling and not their grammar is just asking for it. The trope name is a pun; the word "sic"note Literally Latin for "thus", as in "found thus". Sometimes Backronymed as "spelling is correct" or "spelled in context". is used in quotation and transcription to indicate that a (supposed) spelling or grammatical mistake was made by the original writer/speaker, not the person quoting/transcribing them. Compare You Keep Using That Word, when the nitpicking is over word choice instead of grammar/spelling. Related to Do Wrong, Right. Not to be mistaken for You Make Me Sick. |
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Taken to extremes in Disgaea 4 — upon discovering a typo in a newspaper article, Val decides that the best course of action is to invade the Information Bureau in order to get it fixed. | |
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While Doctor Claw is interrogating the title character in Inspector Gadget, he gets irritated when the Inspector incorrectly conjugates a Spanish verb and corrects him. | |
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The Far Side: A soldier is shot with an arrow with a note tied to it. His friend only remarks: "Ha! The idiots spelled 'surrender' with only one 'r'!" | |
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Inverted in X-Men when Cyclops asks Sinister why he talks about Scott's brotherS. Sinister claimed it was a grammatical error. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: Grammer Gorilla [sic], "a super-strong simian who likes to talk good [sic]." And yes, even though he flies into an Unstoppable Rage at anyone ending a sentence with a preposition, he always gets his own grammar wrong. Also a fan called Alyssa, who exhibited a case of Comically Missing the Point and was rewarded with three "appearances" in the comic, becoming the local poster child for this trope even more than Grammer Gorilla. [1] , [2] , [3] Riff too does it in one strip. |
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In Hercules, during the "Zero To Hero" sequence, Clio and Thalia fight over the pronunciation of "vase": | |
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In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Harmony corrects Harold when he says "I feel badly" instead of "I feel bad". Harold doesn't understand and instead what he takes away from this is that an adverb should never follow a verb. It doesn't go over well when Perry says "sleep badly" and Harold tells him he means "bad" when in fact "badly" is correct in that context. | |
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In Bones, Hodgins signed for Zack's package and flirts with the delivery girl. Also justified, as Zack has No Social Skills, including the ability to use slang, and Hodgins has taken it upon himself to help him learn. |
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In Psych, Chief Vick ordering Shawn to not bring his father in when an old case of his is reopened. | |
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Castle In the episode "Double Down", the murderer scrawls a message on his victim's face. Castle's first reaction on seeing this is that the grammar is wrong: the killer used "your" instead of "you're". He later compliments a guy on his proper use of the word "irony" and explains that most people use it incorrectly. Then again, he's a writer, so he has to think about these things constantly. |
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The Simpsons: One episode revealed that Otto, Bart's bus driver, not only failed every segment of his driver's ed test, he misspelled "bus" on his application. In "Bart the Genius", Martin critiques the spelling of Bart's graffiti. Later in that same episode Bart writes a confession note to the deceived district psychologist. The response: In "Trilogy of Error", Lisa created a robot named Linguo whose primary directive was to correct the grammar of others. It ended up overloading when it encountered the Springfield Mafia. In "Pray Anything", this exchange occurs when the Simpsons are attending a WNBA game in Springfield: When Mr. Burns's son applies for Yale, he does poorly to the point that, for Yale to accept him, Mr. Burns would have to donate the equivalent of a private airport. Where did it start? In "Marge in Chains" Lionel Hutz tries to give a fake verdict to Judge Snyder: "This verdict is written on a cocktail napkin! And it still says guilty! And "guilty" is spelled wrong!" |
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This is seen scrawled on a pub's bathroom stall in Suburban Glamour, where Dave overhears a classmate of his complaining about failing to seduce Astrid after giving her a spiked drink. | |
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Kate Shugak: The short story "The Eyak Interpreter" is written in the form of a blog Johnny is writing for extra credit in his Advanced English class. It includes online comments from various park rats, including his English teacher who provides a running critique on his Ambiguous Syntax, run-on sentences, parentheses within parentheses, etc. | |
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In an episode of American Dreams, Patty got to go on American Bandstand and was asked on-air about the song that had just been performed. She responded by criticizing it for its poor grammar. The song was "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones. The plot of that episode was that Patty had gotten tired of the other kids picking on her being such a nerd and decided to make a go at being cool like her big sister Meg, so she let Meg and Roxanne give her an Unnecessary Makeover and bring her on the show. That scene demonstrated that even though she was wearing pretty clothes now, she was still the unhip know-it-all she had always been, thus setting up her Pygmalion Snap Back. | |
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Played for laughs by Ash and Danny in one episode of Hustle: | |
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Correcting pronunciation, but... Monsters, Inc.: | |
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On The Good Guys, the reason Jack was demoted and sent to work with Dan is that he corrected a superior officer in public that there is no "statue of limitations." Knowing the character it probably was not the first time he did something like this. | |
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The Latest Buzz: In "The Pet Peeves Issue", Michael complains to Rebecca that she is always correcting his grammar. She then points out that he ended a sentence with a preposition. | |
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In Secretary, Mr. Grey's edits of Lee's misspellings and typos actually become a method through which they have dominant-submissive S&M encounters. | |
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The book Eats, Shoots & Leaves is all about proper grammar, and advocates the creation of what amounts to a guerrilla punctuation-correction squadron. | |
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In A Wolf in the Soul, Greg feels compelled to correct others' grammar, at least in his thoughts. Even while they're shooting at him. | |
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The inalienable/unalienable confusion mentioned in 1776 occurs when Prof writes a Declaration of Independence for the Moon Colony that is almost a word-for-word plagiarism of the American one. Though that's one of the more reasonable of the myriad niggling points made by people who seem to have forgotten they're trying to declare their freedom from Earth. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal plays with the trope here. Also crossing into Too Dumb to Live territory here. |
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With Honors: Joe Pesci's character is getting fed up with a Harvard professor's attitude and stands up to leave the lecture hall, asking "which door do I leave from?" When informed that, at Harvard, they don't end their sentences with prepositions, he responds, "all right, which door do I leave from, asshole?" | |
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A Modest Destiny: [1] | |
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In The Wind in the Willows, when Toad learns the Weasels have taken over Toad Hall he snarls "I'll learn 'em to steal my house!" Ratty corrects this, only for Badger to come in on Toad's side: | |
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In issue #5 of The Pink Panther (Gold Key, March 1972), the adaptation of the Inspector cartoon "Le Quiet Squad" has this exchange (the story had the Inspector charged with keeping the Commissioner from being disturbed from noise): | |
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From the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers: | |
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On Corner Gas, the local newspaper, the Dog River Howler, is a frequent offender of this and Worst News Judgement Ever. Take for instance the headline "HANK IS PHYCIC". | |
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Grange Hill: Mr Sutcliffe mis-spells one of his signs, directing new pupils around the school. | |
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When a bad guy in Grave Peril tells Harry Dresden that "I will rip out thy heart!" Harry's immediate response is, "It's thine heart!" This is also a plot point as the bad guy is masquerading as the ghost of a demon, who would know the proper speech. | |
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In A Letter to Three Wives, high school teacher George Phipps, after having spent an entire evening biting his tongue on the subject, goes on a diatribe in front of his radio scriptwriter wife Rita's sponsors, the Manleighs, about how vacuous and insincere radio is as a medium. Rita cuts him off, and Mrs. Manleigh tells her, "Don't you feel badly." | |
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The Oatmeal LOVES this trope. | |
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In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Wyoh tells Prof that Manny had taken advantage of her the night before, stating that he "drugged" her. Prof chides her not to corrupt the language, saying that the word is "dragged." In this case, however, he's ignoring the larger issue because he knows Wyoh is not even trying to make a serious accusation, just giving Manny a bad time. The inalienable/unalienable confusion mentioned in 1776 occurs when Prof writes a Declaration of Independence for the Moon Colony that is almost a word-for-word plagiarism of the American one. Though that's one of the more reasonable of the myriad niggling points made by people who seem to have forgotten they're trying to declare their freedom from Earth. |
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One episode of King of the Hill features Know-Nothing Know-It-All Peggy showing off her skills: | |
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In Monty Python's Life of Brian, a Roman centurion, catching Brian in an act of writing anti-Roman graffiti, makes him correct his Latin grammar at sword point. Then he makes Brian write it out 100 times — all over the walls of the palace! | |
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Discworld In The Truth, when William is in the watchhouse cell, he kills time by correcting the spelling in the graffiti. The Auditors are always like this, due to Blue-and-Orange Morality. When a character asks if he can offer an Auditor a drink, the Auditor considers the question for a moment, then states that yes, he believes the man is capable of making that offer. Subverted in Maskerade. One character objects that people are hanged, it's dead meat that's hung. The other thanks him for the correction then reiterates that the victim in question was strangled and then hung. This warped humor is the first hint that this character is the villain of the book. |
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Subverted in Maskerade. One character objects that people are hanged, it's dead meat that's hung. The other thanks him for the correction then reiterates that the victim in question was strangled and then hung. This warped humor is the first hint that this character is the villain of the book. | |
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In Chuck and Beans, Beans' blog isn't getting many views, and Chuck suggests that Beans posts a blog post with a typo in it since the internet never ignores grammar and spelling errors. Beans posts a blog post saying "Their's been a few things on my mind lately", and people notice it almost immediately, as afterwards the blog gets 300 angry comments, the blog's server goes down, and an angry mob appears outside of their house. | |
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In the The Big Bang Theory episode "The Werewolf Transformation", Sheldon loses faith in the importance of his self-imposed rules of conduct and decides to embrace chaos, starting by playing the bongos loudly in the middle of the night. The following exchange ensues. | |
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Finding Forrester: A more serious version occurs in the film: lead character Jamal accidentally drops his writing journal near the apartment of reclusive writer William Forrester. Forrester sends the journal back to him with corrections and criticisms. Then there's the scene where Jamal corrects the teacher's incorrect usage of farther/further. William also criticizes Jamal's use of conjunctions at the beginning of paragraphs. Jamal retorts that this is actually a valid usage that has emerged during Forrester's time as a recluse (when you want to add emphasis or call attention to a point). |
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The Child of Love: After meeting the managers of their favorite arcade game centre Shinji and Asuka try to pick some French sentences. Asuka does not get it quite right, though: | |
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In Take the Money and Run, Virgil attempts to rob a bank, and he fails because the tellers have difficulty reading past the spelling errors in his hold-up note, which says to "abt natural" because he has a "gub" pointed at them. The bank tellers even debate on whether he actually misspelled gun or if they just don't notice that the B is actually a C or N, and ask other people what they think, including a police officer. | |
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One episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog has this exchange: | |
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In Felsic Current, Lassic Wert's habit of correcting people sometimes takes him down this road. Case in point: | |
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Penny Arcade employs Mr. Period and his friends for this purpose. | |
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The Order of the Stick Xykon allegedly killed an executioner for spelling "guillotine" wrong in his daily reports. He will also berate anyone who misspells his name in their speech balloons. In one Dragon Magazine strip, Vaarsuvius chastises two hostile undead for constantly ending their sentences with prepositions... while trying to evade the same opponents with a "Hide from Undead" spell cast by Durkon. Obviously, this breaks the spell prematurely. |
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Befitting a reporter, Clark Kent once used this to defeat Mr. Mxyzptlk in Superman: The Animated Series: he claimed that he couldn't play Mxy's game until he got an article done, and Mxy agreed to edit it to speed things up. The thing is, Clark intentionally riddled his article with typos, and as Mxy crossed them out he spelled "kltpzyxm" - which was the condition for getting Mxy to go away. | |
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In one strip that appeared in MAD, a stereotypical nerd comes across a sign saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The nerd then pulls out a pen, and proceeds to fix the grammar, so it says, "If it isn't broken, don't fix it." As he's walking away, the sign suddenly falls off the wall, and crashes to the ground. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic's Top 11 F*ck Ups had the fans constant pointing out of little spelling mistakes he made in the list, including one where he spells Nostalgia wrong. | |
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Aquí no hay quien viva: Juan Cuesta, as a teacher, is shown to be obsessed with ortography. He once reduced the grade of a student in an exam because the kid spelled his own name wrong, and got arrested because a policeman caught him correcting the typos of a graffito. | |
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In one Dragon Magazine strip, Vaarsuvius chastises two hostile undead for constantly ending their sentences with prepositions... while trying to evade the same opponents with a "Hide from Undead" spell cast by Durkon. Obviously, this breaks the spell prematurely. | |
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In The X-Files episode "Small Potatoes", a man who can shape-shift decides to replace Mulder in hopes of a more interesting life. When he and Scully (who is unaware) return to Washington to hand in their reports, there is this scene with A.D. Skinner: | |
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In another case, she objects to Jason playing Mortal Kombat due to it teaching unhealthy lessons, such as violence being entertainment, that winners should show no mercy to their enemies and spelling "combat" with a "K". Jason's response is that he knows "combat" isn't spelled with a "K". | |
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New Tricks: In "Good Morning Lemmings", Brian wastes an entire morning attempting to compose the perfect 140 character tweet, which eventually causes an exasperated Jack to snap: | |
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In Fallout 3, the terminals in the LOB building reveal that the company is carrying out illicit weapons research for the Chinese, and the management fears the place inevitably being stormed by the government. A final email reading "MAN THE DOORS! THE FEDS ARE HERE!" is met with a snippy response about the company policy against using all-caps in emails. | |
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Something*Positive does this every now and then. One of the best was a meta-example here: "The fifth reader who sent an email starting off, 'You Liberal Faggot,' please remember 'suck' has a 'c' in it." The author also made fun of people who refer to themselves as grammar nazis, by making up a character who educated children on the proper use of punctuation. The Komma Klansman. |
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Stargate SG-1 In the episode "The Other Guys", after having his cover blown and being brought before the leader of a large group of Jaffa, O'Neill is zapped with a torture stick and has the following exchange: This happens quite often in the series, being a trademark aspect of his character; deflating the theatrics of the Goa'uld is just what he does. When not outright correcting, he's delivering horrible puns. And then there's this gem: Done hilariously in "Window of Opportunity". As more time loops go past, O'Neill and Teal'c learn more of the Ancient language they need to decipher to end the loop. In one scene, Daniel is writing out the translation on a board and Teal'c AND O'Neill correct his translation. Later, we see Daniel sitting back flabbergasted while O'Neill and Teal'c write the translations themselves. |
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A Quick Draw McGraw cartoon had Quick Draw, an outlaw, and a newspaper editor all at odds over the correct spelling of the word "daily." It is finally spelled correctly by a little boy. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, during the escape from the Boiling Rock, Zuko and Chit Sang stage a fight so Zuko could unbolt the cooler from the inside. The argument it starts with isn't exactly one you'd expect from a part of convicts: | |
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Gideon the Ninth: An early chapter has Gideon and Harrowhark arguing (something of a recurring pattern for a while), and at one point Harrowhark sarcastically points out a minor error in Gideon's rant: | |
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Arthur In the episode "Francine Goes to War" Francine is trying to prank her new neighbor Mrs. Pariso into moving back out of the apartment building after Mrs. Pariso has annoyed Francine. At one point she writes her a letter claiming to be from the building's landlord and that the building is in danger of collapsing due to termites and has to be evacuated. The only problem is that Muffy writes the letter despite having less-than-optimal writing skills. Mrs. Pariso returns the letter to Francine with all of Muffy's mistakes corrected. In "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone", Muffy makes a love letter to trick the librarian into thinking that Mr. Ratburn is in love with her. She gives the letter back to Muffy with markings indicating several spelling errors she made and also gives her a book on how to write a poem to help her improve. |
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In Band of Brothers, Winters is informed in writing that he is to face a court-martial. The document he's handed contains a number of misspellings, and Nixon comments on it. | |
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Canadian Bacon: The protagonists spray "Canada sucks!" and other anti-Canadian insults on the side of their truck and are pulled over by a member of the Ontario Provincial Police who then — because Canada is officially bilingual — forces them to also spray it in French. In an earlier scene, the heroes escape when the Mounties that confront them stop to discuss how to rephrase a sentence to avoid ending it with a preposition. |
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Sandra and Woo: Sandra's grandmother apparently has a habit (and a patent!) of correcting grammatical and spelling mistakes in graffiti. | |
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We can't forget about this hilarious gem in the Drake & Josh episode "Peruvian Puff Pepper: | |
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A US Acres cartoon on Garfield and Friends has Orson receiving the cryptic ultimatum "The bunny rabbits is coming." The ever-paranoid Wade starts freaking out, but Orson only remarks "Shouldn't that be 'The bunny rabbits are coming?'" This eventually becomes a Running Gag throughout the short. And soon, some characters are replacing are with is in their sentences (and vice versa). | |
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In the Horus Heresy novel "Flight of the Eisenstein", while Garro's ship is attempting to desert the Warmaster's fleet and Bring News Back, an ambitious comms officer insists that it's an act of mutiny. The captain's sole reaction is to correct him: it's not mutiny, it's barratry because it's the captain doing it. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie has a sketch about a too-nice, Extreme Doormat teacher whose class ignores him. When he comes in, the blackboard has "YOU BARSTAD" written on it. He tells one of the students that it's spelled "bastard": "Otherwise, good." | |
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In one episode of El Chavo del ocho, Professor Jirafales enters the classroom to find that someone drew a cartoon of him as a longsausage and labeled "Maestro Longanisa". He immediately proceeds to correct it as "Maestro Longaniza" and sit down before realizing what he saw. There's also a recurring joke where adults try to teach kids correct grammar. |
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The Tragically Hip have "Luv [Sic]". | |
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Final Fantasy X-2: Rikku at one point reports their status as "disasterrific". Brother demands that she use "disastrous" like the rest of the world. Of course, when Yuna later uses the same word to describe their situation, rather than berate her use of the word, Brother is ready to charge in to save the girls, but especially Yuna. In Japanese, she says "Daijoubanai" conjugating the noun Daijoubu (everything is okay) into a negative form even though the word doesn't work that way. |
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In Girl Genius, Agatha gives back his book to Vanamonde with "Allthespellingcorrectionsareinred" during a Caffeine Bullet Time. | |
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The Onion writes about bad spelling and grammar in suicide notes, naturally Comically Missing the Point. | |
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One episode of 30 Rock has Tracy correcting Toofer. | |
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Ruddigore has Rose interrupting Mad Margaret's mad scene with controversy over "who" versus "whom," insisting that "it is the accusative after the verb." | |
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In Baccano!, the Martillo Family's resident Humanoid Abomination, Ronnie Schiatto, decides to interrupt a top-secret FBI briefing to point out that they spelled his Don's name wrong in the case files. Omniscience tends to make one sensitive to spelling errors. | |
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Being Human: George gets a job teaching English to foreign migrants. On a trip to the toilet, he notices they've written some insulting graffiti about him, so he corrects it. Then his boss walks in and tells him to stop defacing property. In an earlier episode, after Mitchell is mistaken for a paedophile, the word "peedo" is sprayed onto their door. George's response is to yell at the neighbors, "There's one 'E' in 'paedo'!" Apparently it runs in the family: in the episode in which George's dad appears, he points out a spelling error in his own obituary. |
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There is also an episode of Monk in which the title character tries to get a job at a magazine, so he arrives at the interview with a whole stack of papers containing the errors in one issue of the magazine. Also, some of those corrections are debatable and may no longer apply, such as his complaint against the word "decimate". While the original use did indeed mean "to reduce by a tenth", specifically in relation to punishment in the Roman legions, the modern use of the word pretty much means "to destroy completely" and has already been included in most dictionaries. Note that he does get the job but immediately quits, as he still wants to be a cop. | |
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The Cleveland Show | |
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In A Series of Unfortunate Events: Josephine has just barely managed to convince the ax-crazy villain to let her live. What does she do five seconds later? Well, correcting him on his grammar, of course! He then promptly throws her in a lake full of carnivorous leeches. The writer makes a huge point about Josephine's obsession with grammar and spelling. In fact, the way the kids realise her suicide note isn't sincere is by the large number of spelling and grammar mistakes in it. | |
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A mid-'90s Chipmunks Country Collaboration album had Simon paired with Aaron Tippin singing his big hit, "There Ain't* Isn't Nothing* Anything Wrong with the Radio". (Simon kept correcting the lyrics while he was singing the song, earning Tippin's ire.) | |
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In one part of Dragon Quest IX, a pair of Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains kidnap the daughter of a rich family and demand a ransom. The person who finds the note reads it and is absolutely shocked at their craptacular spelling. It actually takes him a second to realise they kidnapped her. | |
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Played seriously in the Spider-Man arc "The Other", where Peter interrupts Ezekiel's speech about his role in the grand scheme of things to correct a grammatical error, simply to show that he doesn't care. Said error was a reference to the voice-over intro to the first X-Men film. Also on several occasions, when a villain would call Spider-Man "bug" or "insect", Spider-Man would reply, "Please, spiders are arachnids!" |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Amerei Frey tells of how her father was "hung" by the Brotherhood without Banners when he approached them to pay a ransom. Her mother corrects her: "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry." | |
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In Finding Neverland, Michael asks if they can "have Uncle Jim for dinner." His mother corrects him with "Have him over for dinner. We aren't cannibals." | |
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Futurama In "The Problem with Popplers", King Lrr of Omicron Persei VIII reveals that the delicious "popplers" Earthlings have been obsessing over are actually larval Omicronians, a revelation that doesn't shake Zapp Branigan in the slightest. "Love and Rocket" has the Omicronians again, this time getting upset over a candy that said "Wuv", with an Earth W. Played with in a conversation between the Donbot and henchman Joey Mousepad, the latter's habitual mangled English being a Running Gag. |
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The West Wing: President Bartlet's response during a public debate with a political opponent: | |
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In The Truth, when William is in the watchhouse cell, he kills time by correcting the spelling in the graffiti. | |
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In the TV series Starman, Scott corrects Fox's grammar in the middle of a hostage exchange. | |
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Private Eye once did a column spoofing the columnist Keith Waterhouse (a noted Grammar Nazi). In it he described seeing an incredibly offensive piece of graffiti "Down with wimmin, there all tarts" which so offended him that he had to paint over it... to change the "there" to "they're". | |
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Was the cause of a mystery in one Encyclopedia Brown story. A young Lothario dictated a love note to his crush's little sister. Unfortunately, because he didn't tell her the punctuation, she added it in herself, turning the romantic line "I can't stop thinking you're the prettiest girl in the world" into "I can't. Stop thinking you're the prettiest girl in the world." He gets a fist to the gut due to this. | |
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Danger Mouse once has Colonel K contact DM to say: | |
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Generator Rex: In "Enemies Mine", Gatlocke complains about Valve misusing the phrase "begging the question", although he immediately claims to be joking and says only a total pedant would get upset about something like that. Being Gatlocke, it's hard to know if he was being serious or not. | |
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In a Peanuts strip, Charlie Brown watches as Sally writes the word "Deer" on a sheet of paper. Assuming she is writing a letter, he corrects her, advising that the proper spelling is "D-e-a-r." Without a word, she continues to write a sentence about deer, leading ol' Chuck to apologize profusely as Sally upbraids him for making rash assumptions. Once her brother leaves the room, however, she crumples and discards the paper, takes a fresh sheet, and begins writing "Dear Grandma..." | |
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Endeavour: In "Rocket", Morse tells a protestor wielding a placard that he does not doubt his sincerity, but that he might get more respect if he spelled 'Levellers' correctly. | |
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Dot Dot Dot originally started as someone reading a bad review of a game phonetically. People liked it so much that the anamation was made later. | |
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In the song "One Hundred Easy Ways" in Wonderful Town, Ruth explains how to lose a man by correcting his grammar: | |
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From Game of Thrones. When Davos notes that Stannis Baratheon removing four of his fingertips for smuggling left him with four less fingernails to clean, Stannis corrects his use of "less" in place of "fewer". He has four fewer fingernails to clean. In a later episode, when some Men of the Nights Watch say something about "let them die, we'll have less enemies", Stannis again mutters "fewer". While reading up on siege warfare, Tyrion fumbles through trying to pronounce the notoriously difficult name of Archmaester Ch'Vyalthan. Only for Bronn to cut in with the proper pronunciation. And then Varys enters to reveal Bronn pronounced it wrong as well. |
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In the Western Arc of Arthur, King of Time and Space, Pellinore's saloon has a sign saying "SALOOON". People come in to let him know, and then order a drink since they're there anyway... | |
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In FoxTrot, Andy Fox is prone to this. In one strip, she even explains to her son Peter that she does it because, as an English major and professional writer, she values proper use of the language. He replies, "You're coming through real clear." (Andy: "Obviously not.") In another case, she objects to Jason playing Mortal Kombat due to it teaching unhealthy lessons, such as violence being entertainment, that winners should show no mercy to their enemies and spelling "combat" with a "K". Jason's response is that he knows "combat" isn't spelled with a "K". |
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Series one of Little Britain has the character of a teacher who had married one of his former students, but continues to treat her as if she is still at school. In one episode, when she gives him a card for their wedding anniversary, he proceeds to correct the grammar mistakes and put "See Me" at the end. | |
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A series of Zits strips had Connie trying to work on her novel, but Jeremy kept interrupting her. Finally, she put a notice on her door stating that she was not to be disturbed except in certain conditions, such as an injury resulting in copius loss of blood. Jeremy looks at the note, then knocks on the door to tell her that she mis-spelled "copious." | |
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A sketch on Smack the Pony had a guy and a girl laughing and holding hands on the beach. He picks up a stick and writes "RICK LOVE'S SOFIE" in the sand, and she takes the stick and corrects it to "RICK LOVES SOPHIE". Then he crosses out the word "loves". Then she adds a "P" to the beginning of his name. Then they walk off in opposite directions. | |
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Meta example: try talking about Fairy Tail on a message board without someone telling you it's spelled T-A-L-E.note For context, the eponymous guild is named because of the ongoing question as to whether fairies have tails, "an eternal mystery and an eternal adventure," so the "Tail" spelling is deliberate. | |
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The website Acts of Gord claims that "The Gord" does this whenever someone gives him a bad CV. An example (about halfway down). | |
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The Proud Family: Penny, in voice-over, says the only reason she didn't pull this trope on the Drill Sergeant Nasty in the episode "Diary of a Bad Girl" was that her mouth was full of the cookies she stole, when he sarcastically asked, "Got no milk?" | |
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On an earthquake-themed episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, Hamton and Plucky are hanging on the edge of a massive crack in the earth, with Buster and Babs hopping to the rescue. | |
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Continuity-loving writers will occasionally hook Captain Marvel up with grammar-correction jokes. These are nods to the character's Bronze Age backstory, when Carol Danvers was a bestselling author and a magazine editor. | |
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Beetle Bailey: Sarge and Beetle stop at a "DOUGNUT" shop and point out the missing H. As they leave with a bag of donuts, the seller muses that he's got more business since removing the H. | |
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Doctor Who: The Master did this in the TV Movie, when he (disguised as an ambulance medic), the Doctor, and Grace Holloway were in the back of an ambulance. Bear in mind, neither the Doctor nor Grace know what the Master looks like. She says something ending with "...as good as me," and the Master blows his cover with "...as well as you." | |
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In Up the Down Staircase, a student gives a teacher a love letter. Unsure how to act, he treats it as an assignment — proofreading and correcting it. The girl is Driven to (attempt) Suicide. The sequence is also retained in the 1967 film adaptation and theatrical adaptation. | |
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In Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth, Flintlocke writes an angry letter to the Horde (yes, the entire Horde). Their first response? "He misspelled ZOMG." | |
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The Wire has a running gag where people keep nitpicking the grammar of police reports. In one scene, McNulty and Rhonda Perlman present their request for a continuation of their wiretaps to Judge Phelan sees the judge delighting in making Jimmy squirm by listing his various spelling and grammatical errors, before granting them what they asked for without a word of complaint. One scene has several people chuckle about a police reports stating that a perp "fell prostate on the floor" (instead of prostrate). The final season kicks it up a notch with the professional writers working at the newspaper. A crusty veteran there corrects a younger reporter's use of "evacuate" in a story about a fire: The object of that verb has to be the container being emptied. If you evacuate a building, you're taking the people out. If you evacuate the people, you're giving them enemas. |
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Played for drama in the Grand Finale of Gravity Falls — in the middle of a ritual to banish Bill Cipher and stop The End of the World as We Know It, Ford corrects Stanley's use of "him and me", punctuating it with a very condescending "Grammar, Stanley". Stan is so angry he jumps Ford, interrupting the ritual, and allowing most of the cast to be captured by Bill. It should be mentioned that Stan didn't even finish high-school due to being kicked out by their parents, so it was a particularly low blow. | |
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In the young adult novel The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, a young, wealthy girl in the 1830s becomes a sailor, discovers the captain of the ship is evil and causes his death (long story). She writes all of this in her diary, which her father reads. This leads to a long lecture about telling lies about the captain, consorting with common sailors, and generally being unladylike and immoral, ending with: "and the spelling, Charlotte. The spelling!" | |
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Towards the end of Ratchet & Clank (2016), the confrontation between Nefarious and Qwark gets sidetracked when Qwark delivers a lame one-liner and Nefarious would rather yell at him about how it makes no sense than actually fight him. | |
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A variation in The History Boys: "Hector would like that — 'your sucking me off'. Hector likes gerunds." | |
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In the first full episode of Sailor Moon that reintroduces Chibi-Usa, when the Sailors get the message that Chibi-Usa has returned for training to be a Sailor Senshi, they read the letter, then proceed to tear apart Neo-Queen Serenity's grammar, noting that even in the far-flung future when she rules the world, Usagi still has poor writing skills. | |
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In High School High, a parody of Dangerous Minds, Jon Lovitz plays a High School English teacher in a very bad school. In one scene, while facing the blackboard, he asks the students for a sample sentence so he can point out the various parts of speech. A gangbanger pokes his head in the door and delivers a death threat in fairly heavy Ebonics. Lovitz's character mistakes it for a suggestion, and writes it out on the board. He immediately begins correcting the grammar, to the confusion of the gangbanger who threatened him. After a few attempts to make simple changes, Lovitz gives up and says "This is just poor syntax." | |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has the North American Grammar Squirrel. He first appeared when Molly and Golly were arguing about the correct adverb form of "cosmogony". It's "cosmogonically", in case you wondered. | |
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Strong Bad from Homestar Runner usually pronounces the misspelled words the way they're spelled, though occasionally he will tab up into the message and edit the errors. Among other things, the character of Homsar was born this way... his name was originally a misspelling of Homestar in an early sbemail. | |
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Jacksfilms "Your Grammar Sucks" series on YouTube takes actual user comments from YouTube, Facebook, and other sites and reads them phonetically for the humor value. Sometimes he attempts to "helpfully" correct a particularly awful bit of grammar. | |
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Midsomer Murders: In "Death and Dust", a woman receives an anonymous note, warning her about her fiance's past affairs. The note turns out to be from her children who do not want her to remarry. When she finds out, she delivers a stinging response that ends with: | |
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Doug: When Mrs. Wingo reads her farewell card in "Doug Graduates", she informs Roger that "Sayonara suckers!" is two words. | |
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Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee visually did this during the "mailbag showdown" where the emails that appeared on screen were corrected as they were read (including one instance of "See Me [After Class]"). Yahtzee has also been known to do this when reviewing games with "imaginatively" spelled titles, most recently in his review of Ryse: Son of Rome. |
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In The Librarians "And the Tears of a Clown," Jacob Stone and his fellow Librarians are immobilized and at the mercy of an unhinged magician who's about to turn them into wax dummies, but that doesn't keep Jacob from correcting the villain when he misquotes Shakespeare. | |
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In The Kill Point, Horst Cali constantly corrects people's grammar while they're trying to talk to him about the ongoing hostage situation. | |
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From Season 1, Episode 7 of My Family: | |
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Hank Zipzer: In "Hank's New School", Hank is protesting his parents' decision to take him out of Westbrook by waving a placard at the breakfast table. Emily's response is to glance briefly at his sign and murmur: | |
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On How I Met Your Mother, Lily ruins a romantic moment by pointing out that Marshall confused your/you're. (Or Marshall ruined the moment for Lily by confusing your/you're in the first place.) And of course, the difference between "effect" and "affect" is one of only two things Marshall himself is really serious about. As Ted prepares to leave New York forever because he can't get over his feelings for Robin, he takes the opportunity to do some things around the city that he'd always wanted to - including correcting some graffiti that said "your a penis" to "YOU'RE a penis" |
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The Lockhorns: "I didn't save Leroy's old love letters... I returned them with the spelling corrected." | |
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In Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, Nicolas sends love poems to his girlfriend Amanda.... and she sends them back, with corrections. | |
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In the third volume of Dramacon, Christy has been writing flowery lovelorn prose on her blog for several months after seeing Matt (who she has feelings for, and vice versa) at Yatta!Con. He then contacts her out of the blue to tell her she spelled a word wrong 'in today's post'. Christy's Oh, Crap! reaction has to be seen to be believed. | |
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Frasier Niles Crane has a habit of using a marker pen to correct all the grammar and spelling mistakes of the graffiti in public restrooms. Daphne gives a lovely speech in the second season just to build up to a fantastic example of this: Niles' reaction to the "injurious graffito" limerick Frasier finds in a bathroom stall; When Frasier catches his son Frederick running in the house, he asks what he's said about that. Frederick responds "You said to never do that." Frasier, still upset, says "And what have I told you about splitting infinitives?" |
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Inversion: a minor Fark.com joke started when a user known as "rotsky" attempted to correct the spelling of a submitted article about Britney Spears losing custody of her children, but in the process wound up spelling a word wrong. The full story of the meme's origin can be read here. | |
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Friends In "The One with the Jellyfish", Ross reacts to a letter Rachel sends him: In fairness, the letter had rambled for at least 18 pages (front and back), explaining why Ross was defensive about falling asleep while reading it at 5:30 AM. Also, on one occasion, Joey corrects Ross on the use of "who" vs. "whom". It fits because it's Joey. |
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The Second Try: In chapter 8 Shinji says Asuka "Ich leibe Sie," (meaning to say "I love you"). He leans to kiss her but he stops because she is stifling a chuckle. Then she teaches him the correct words ("Ich liebe dich") and kisses him. | |
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In Season 2 episode 32 of Happy Heroes, Careless S. receives a mysterious notice saying that the other heroes have turned against him. Later in the episode, Happy S., Sweet S., and Smart S. find that note, and Smart S. quips that it should look suspicious just from reading it because... it has two spelling mistakes. | |
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The Postman: "You spelled 'tyranny' wrong." | |
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