<p>This is about a spelling bee. Not the kind that gets a kid on the stage trying to spell words that no one ever uses, but a bee in my bonnet about a misspelling that seems to be gaining currency.</p>
<p>I am referring to hypocracy. Now, I get it that lots of politicians are hypocrits and are guilty of hypocrisy. But does this new spelling of an old sin mean that we have entered the age of hypocracy following on the age of technocracy, democracy and autocracy?</p>
<p>What’s your own bee?</p>
<p>Definately, Marite. :D</p>
<p>I have so many bees that I should invest in a hive.</p>
<p>You two little jokers, writing “hypocrits” and “definately”.</p>
<p>Definately makes me nuts.</p>
<p>Irregardless of the facts! :-)</p>
<p>Equally as…</p>
<p>Seperate is another little bee that is flying into the hive.</p>
<p>Marite, did you know that hypocracy is in the urban dictionary? part of the problem is that you can google some of the famous misspellings, find a definition and think that the spelling is corrent.</p>
<p>Just as I was about to fix the spelling in the title of the thread, too. :)</p>
<p>A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. But you wouldn’t be able to market it as a rose. Same deal with politicians; the name is more important than the substance, a weakness of democracy. From the Bush brand (now badly impaired, sorry George H.W.) on the right, to the Kennedy name (ageing poorly, sorry Senator Ted) on the left , name has mattered more than substance.</p>
<p>President O.'s election might be a departure from this but it is probably more a measure of disenchantment with former President Bush.</p>
<p>sorghum:</p>
<p>Well, I was going to write “hypocrats” 
"L’hypocrisie est l’hommage que le vice rend </p>
<p>Being that she was laying in the street…the bee deserved to be flattened by a police car responding to potential B&E.</p>
<p>A bit off-topic, but I have never understood the phrase “went missing” – She went missing last Sunday. It seems to have become standard phrasing, at least in news reports. As for spelling – it’s importance is exaggerated (jk!)</p>
<p>If I see “congradulations” one more time…</p>
<p>Consolation:</p>
<p>She layed in the street because she wasn’t payed. :)</p>
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<p>Me neither! Or is that me either?!</p>
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<p>I have to admit that the bad spelling in titlle prompted me to click on the thread. I really, really had to find out what happened to Marite!</p>
<p>By the way, as someone who often leaves typos in unedited posts, I should not comment on mispelled words … but I am often annoyed by the use of ad nauseum (instead of ad nauseam.) In my book. if you want to sound more intelligent than your fellow members by using latin words, you might as well learn how to spell them correctly. :)</p>
<p>Irregardless, what’s your point?</p>
<p>“Per se,” say I, and not “per say.”</p>
<p>I couldn’t care less.</p>
<p>Theirs no cents to this thread. Its actually lewdicrous.</p>