This is the most misspelled word in weather
The meteorologist James Spann has admitted his pet peeve is people spelling lightning 'lightening'
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Your support makes all the difference.James Spann, the popular Birmingham, Alabame, broadcast meteorologist, has a pet peeve: It’s that many people misspell the word lightning.
This weekend, for example, lightning delayed several college football games. Yet the athletic departments at two institutes of higher learning, the University of Georgia and Florida State University, dispatched tweets warning spectators of “lightening”:
The tweets were either amended or deleted, but — for whatever reason — the mistake is one that is made repeatedly. I see it all the time in tweets and comments submitted to us here at the Capital Weather Gang.
“Really, it isn’t that hard,” Spann quipped on his Facebook page, attaching the information graphic below to educate and help make his point:
“Do you know what ‘lightening’ means?” Spann vented on the Weather Channel program WxGeeks last year. “It involves ladies’ plumbing and pregnancy and things we don’t need to be talking about here.”
Spann declared a call to action: “I think as a weather enterprise we should educate the public in what is ‘lightening’ and what is lightning. There is a slightly large difference.”
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Posted by WX Geeks on Saturday, 27 September 2014
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