Happy Dictionary Day. Yes, it’s a real thing, established to commemorate the birthday of the lexicon’s OG Noah Webster. Good luck finding a Hallmark card for the occasion.
Yahoo! is celebrating by listing its Top 20 misspelled search terms.
1. Rachel Ray (Rachael Ray)
2. Tatoos (Tattoos)
3. Scarlett Johanson (Scarlett Johansson)
4. Wierd Al Yankovic (Weird Al Yankovic)
5. Evanesence (Evanescence)
6. Soduku (Sudoku)
7. Barbara Streisand (Barbra Streisand)
8. Louis Vitton (Louis Vuitton)
9. Jamie Presley (Jaime Pressly)
10. Jimmy Buffet (Jimmy Buffett)
11. Brittany Spears (Britney Spears)
12. Brittney Spears (also, Britney Spears)
13. Anna Nichole Smith (Anna Nicole Smith)
14. Eva Mendez (Eva Mendes)
15. Jessica Beil (Jessica Biel)
16. The Biggest Looser (The Biggest Loser)
17. Jennifer Anniston (Jennifer Aniston)
18. Marie Antionette (Marie Antoinette)
19. Mercedez Benz (Mercedes Benz)
20. Micheal Jordan (Michael Jordan)
We’ve certainly had enough practice with Scarlett Johansson, but this list got us wondering what other musicians’ names are a bitch to blog?
We’ll start: Okkervil River, Justus Köhncke, Chad VanGaalen, Justin Timbaland (har har)…
Which bands are hell on your ID3 tags these days?
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Many people I know spell Franz Ferdinand as “Franz Ferdainand”
Trentemøller
Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike
Not for the reason you listed but I effing hate searching for “The Band.”
Also, Sigur Ros, I don’t know how many different ways I’ve seen it spelled. Plus I don’t know how to make an accent mark on a PC without going “insert” on MS Word.
Led Zeppelin —-> Led Zepplin
I’ve seen that one a fair few times.
I don’t think you’ve had enough practise with Scarlett Johansson
Magneta Lane = Magenta Lane
Magneta Lane = Magenta Lane
Yo La Tango…
Wild Stallions (Wyld Stallions)
Mxyzptlk
I like how they can spell “Yankovic” but fuck up on “Weird” instead.
Also, the trickiest one I can think of -
Einstürzende Neubauten
elliot smith. GRR.
MSTRKRFT
OOIOOIOO
Alex, I hope you spelled Elliott Smith wrong on purpose. Because it’s kind of funny if you’re getting upset about it and spell is wrong yourself.
Yahoo won’t even let you search !!!. It’s an “invalid shortcut”.
panic at the disco (panic! at the disco)
There;s a new glasgow supergroup called
DANANANANAKROYD
and i’m never sure how many ANs there are in it, thus proving googlisation difficultation.
good band tho’
joanna newsome for joanna newsom.
Dananananakroyd — not bad.
Here’s “Totally Bone” for the curious:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/collective/tracks/_NOIRSC_dananananakroyd_totallybone_au.ram
Also, don’t know why Yahoo!’s link suddenly broke. It worked fine a few hours ago.
“ACDC”
wrong! you forgot the lightning bolt!
I just hate it when bands are un-Google-able: !!!, The Band, Love etc.
I just hate it when bands are un-Google-able: !!!, The Band, Love etc.
i was spelling it wrong on purpose. that would be pretty funny, though.
The National’s pretty tough.
the gayborhood choir —-> the neighborhood choir
I only hate The National because I’ve seen it tagged “The Nationals”. Same goes for other bands with that problem.
Gerogerigegege is a frustrating one.
If any of you happen to frequent the IGN Indie Rock Boards, there’s a running joke there after some guy asked about “The Pavement”.
And while not the most misspelled band name, the most misunderstood band name is Final Fantasy. That shit is hard to get people to listen to.
“You should check out Final Fantasy’s new album!”
“You mean the Final Fantasy X soundtrack? Yeah, it’s tight!”
“No, there’s a band called Final Fantasy and it plays kinda like orchestral music.”
“…the Final Fantasy soundtrack has orchestral music on it.”
“*head asplode*”
gnarles barkley? i don’t know.
yeah! final fantasy pisses me off. everyone thinks im a VIDEOGAME nerd instead of an indie one
just in general I find it annoying when people stick ‘The’ in front of bands like Pixies or Doves.
Misspelling wise is it UNKLE? Unkle? U.N.K.L.E.? everytime I upload one of their discs or an “UNKLE Reconstruction” it’s different.
I’ve seen “The Ranconteurs” in a handful of favorite music listings. Architecture in Helsinki can also be pretty tricky if you’re not thinking about it.
Red Hot “Chilli” Peppers.
1 L, not 2.
Ryan Adams (Bryan Adams)
Jeff Magnum.
Muahahahah.
Not rising to the Ryan Adams bait because that was fucking funny.
Lynyrd Skynyrd… WTF they were thinking?
yeah yeah yeahs (yes yes yeses)
“panic at the disco (panic! at the disco)”
you should jump off a balcony.
a lot of icelandic, scandinavian, nordic & japanese bands can get realy tricky sometimes. here’s some of my faves that i often end up misspelling:
*VILLENEUVE
*SIGGI ARMANN
*SKAKKAMANAGE
*AMIINA
*TUJIKO NORIKO & AOKI TAKAMASA
*ANATHALLO
*BARBARA MORGENSTERN
*B. FLEISCHMANN
*BENNI HEMM HEMM
*CANSEI DE SER SEXY
*CHIEHEI HATAKEYAMA
*HANNE HUKKELBERG
*HILMAR ORN HILMARSSON
*KRIA BREKKEN
*SHUGO TOKUMARU
*STAFRAENN HAKON
*TAKAGI MASAKATSU