Every semester there is always one teacher who is absolutely weird or just annoys you. This semester, that teacher happens to be my Physical Science professor. She is both weird and annoying. For being a university professor, you’d think that they would AT LEAST know how to spell terms correctly. Sadly, the system is not working here in Texas. 
She admitted last week that she was not that great of a speller, but come on! If you’re a physics teacher, you should at least know how to spell “celsius” correctly! She spelled it “celcius” and it annoyed me to no end. 
If there is one thing I can’t stand, it’s educated people misspelling simple things. She is a professor of university physics and the fact that she cannot spell “celcius” worries me. That was just one of the many words that she misspelled earlier this evening.
I know that it’s also a matter of preference, but I have always pronounced the word ‘nuclear’ just as it sounds. My professor, however, pronounces it ‘nuc-e-lar’, just like our dear, old President Bush. It was so annoying to hear her pronounce that word throughout the entire lecture, even though I know that it’s an acceptable form. 
So, I think that there is a serious gap in our educational system. If the professors at the university level don’t know how to spell words that they use on a daily basis and are in their particular field of study, then we are definitely doomed. 
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My communications teacher says papyrus “payp-eye-rus” and it drives me crazy. We had an entire class about the history of communications and she said it multiple times and ugh, so annoying. Teachers can be so silly sometimes…
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The thought of another human being saying nuclear like Bush..my god. I am very saddened right now by this news. :no:
Once in high school, my geometry teacher was this nun and she was a bitch. Well she made a mistake while doing a problem on the board,and this one smart ass kid called her on it. He actually had to go up there and do her problem FOR her and just oh my, it was quite possibly one of the best days I ever had in that class.
I think that with teachers, it’s okay for them to misspell things sometimes, but I guess we just look at them as people who are supposed to be 100% smarter than us. It makes me feel weird to know that that isn’t always the case.
omg i got that before! its such a peeve i tell ya! i tried to correct the teacher, who taught maths. and she was like, SO WHAT, i teach math not english. COME ON, learn to spell Trigonometry, not triganomatry.
Yeah, I just kind of find it strange when people, teachers in particular, make obvious mistakes. I understand where they may have made a typo(on the computer..) but when they misspell words that they SHOULD know, it is just kind of irritating. If they are uncertain, perhaps, use a dictionary? It just makes them look even more stupid when they know that they’ve misspelled a word, that could have been prevented if they had only looked up the word. Mistakes are mistakes though. Everyone makes them.
Oh, gosh, that IS seriously disturbing. (Nuc-e-lar. :ashamed:) I have a teacher like that too, except much, much worse. :read:
Oh man, I can relate to your post so well!
My pet peeve is bad spelling/grammar. I had an English teacher when I was still in school who couldn’t spell “adolescence”. I mean, come on, she was an English teacher!!