How You Spelt Things When You Were 14: DECODED

justcallmedee
Nov 22, 2015
3 min read

Ah yes. 14. A wonderful age filled with excitement and fun. And by that I mean meaningless drama and teenage angst. I remember it well. (Unfortunately)

If you’re one of my 3 loyal readers, (hi guys), you might have seen an earlier post I wrote about cleaning up my Facebook account. It was a painful and unimaginably embarrassing time for me and so of course, I shared it with the internet. If you have not yet read that post here is the link for that: *Okay it's not up yet.. you got me!*

You can either read it first or go check it out after this post.

Anyway, while cleaning up the dreaded Facebook account, I was reminded of the shudderingly bad way I used to spell words in order to appear “gansta” and “kwl” (Those words are “gangster” and “cool”) (Also, I had to retype “kwl”about 20 times because autocorrect kept changing it to “owl”) (I would usually be angry at autocorrect for putting words in my mouth, however, I really can’t blame it and in actual fact thank it for trying to make me sound like a normal human being and not someone who spells the word “cool” as “kwl”).

Shall we continue?

So anyway, here is a list of words that I and probably you once used to spell incorrectly in order to appear like a gangster (which, sidenote, is a very strange thing to want to be when you’re a 4 foot 4 female with glasses and a backpack that was bigger than you). But let’s not pretend I was the only one.. you totally typed like this too..

On with the list:

1. “Wiked" - aka wicked. I don’t know why anyone would spell wicked like that. It doesn’t even say wicked. It says wiked. (Pronounced like “hiked”). That’s not even a word!

2. “Lyk" - aka like. Because I thought shorter words with funky spelling was edgy and original. It was neither. Also in this category: Mite (might), an/n (and), bk (back), tru (true), yh/yeh (yeah), nt (not), dnt (don’t), dint (didn’t), jk (joke)…. there are more but we could be here for a while.

3. Adding “Z” to words/replacing “S” for “Z” - Jokes became “Jokez”, “Loserz", “Idiotz", “Foolz" (I insulted people a lot)

4. Missing the g off the end of words - this gets an honorable mention because I did it a lot. A LOT. I.e. losin, killin, talkin, chillin.. etc. I don’t know why that was in any way cool to me. It’s not like it’s saving any time.. It’s literally one letter less than the correct spelling!

5. Spelling words phonetically - thort (thought), duznt (again with the Zs!), cudnt (as in I couldn't spell), enuf (that’s enough - in both senses) .. I’m sure there were more but I’ll leave it at that.

The worst part is I wasn’t even bad at spelling! I was always really good at it. I always got 10/10 in my spelling tests for crying out loud! What an idiot.

So yh thts the list. Waznt it embarrassin? Did u also spell lyk tht? Or wernt u as kwl as me?

Thnx 4 readin guyz.

Ugh can I stop typing like that now? It’s making me cringe.

Thanks again for reading,

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Until next time,

Divya x