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Last night's lightning storms proved that nobody knows how to spell lightning

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Summer weather July 4th 2015 PA WIRE PA WIRE

LAST NIGHT THE UK’s heatwave meant it was a bumper evening for lightning flashes.

Tens of thousands of #lightning flashes illuminated the skies over the UK overnight. #Sleeplessnight?! Matt pic.twitter.com/EcIFm9xMO0
— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) July 4, 2015

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LIGHTNING flashes. Not ‘lightening’ flashes. Are you listening, Twitter?

Twitter tutorial.

⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

Lightning ✔️

Lightening ✖️
— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) July 3, 2015

Amanda / Twitter

‘Lightening’, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is…

A drop in the level of the womb during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages on the pelvis.

Which frankly gives a new level of meaning to these tweets:

This lightening is mad
— Jake Finch (@ImFinch) July 3, 2015

Finch / Twitter

The thunder and lightening tonight is something else ⚡️
— Josh Cuthbert (@JoshCuthbert) July 4, 2015

Josh Cuthbert / Twitter

Mad indeed.

And the burns, they came thick and fast…

I wasn't particularly upset by the overnight #storm, even though it woke me up. It does upset me how many people can't spell "lightning" tho
— Alex B Cann (@alexbcann) July 4, 2015

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(Unfortunate shortening of the word ‘though’, though).

You can take great photographs of it, but you can't spell it #lightning
— Jo Haseltine (@Jo_Haseltine) July 3, 2015

Jo Haseltine / Twitter

DAMN LIGHTNING, YOU HARD TO SPELL
— Download Later (@DownloadLater) July 4, 2015

Jim Lingard / Twitter

Every time you spell lightning with an "e", Twitter kills a kitten.
— Alex Ayling (@alexjayling) July 3, 2015

Alex Ayling / Twitter

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Last night's lightning storms proved that nobody knows how to spell lightning

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And the burns, they came thick and fast…

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Some Irish teens going to college can’t even spell ‘college’>