Many of us have dabbled with Siri and similar “speech-to-text” applications on our phone when we’re in a hurry to communicate. But between accents, uncommon words, and the, shall we say, general opportunities with technology, sometimes what gets “typed” isn’t quite what we intended! For your amusement, here are some of the funnier speech-to-text “fails” we’ve had.
Bird names
Now arranged by category because…some birds are “harder” (or more hilarious) than others.
Bobolinks
- Bubble links
- Bubbling
- Bible links
Dickcissels
- Discuss
- Texas
- Dick thistle
- Dick’s thistle
- Dixissels
- Winn Dixie supposed —> One Dickcissel posed
- D*** sizels [when Christie’s phone also censored her!]
Key combo: “No bubbling for a dick thistles” —> No Bobolinks or Dickcissels
Mergansers
- Carmen morganzas —> Common Mergansers
- Tumor answers —> Two Mergansers
- More cancer’s —> Mergansers
- Warmerganzers —> More Mergansers
- Who did Mergansers —> Hooded Mergansers
- More dancers —> Mergansers
Scaups
- Scopes
- Scalp
- Scoff
- Lester Scott —> Lesser Scaup
Other Ducks and Geese
- Canvasmax —> Canvasbacks
- Get walls —> Gadwalls
- Widgets —> Wigeons
- Greenland teals —> Green-winged Teals
- Green winged heels —> Green-winged Teals
- Snuggies —> Snow Geese
- Already Ducks —> Ruddy Ducks
- Blue ain’t teals —> Blue-winged Teals
- Gad balls —> Gadwalls
- In Jails —> Pintails
Warblers
- Profanatory —> Prothonotary
- Black-footed blue warmer —> Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Babe rested Warbler —> Bay-breasted Warbler
- Black polo —> Blackpoll
- Black footed blue Harbor —> Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Warm eating —> Worm-eating
- Pannitterri —> Prothonotary
- Swing since warbler —> Swainson’s Warbler
- Sanitary Warbler —> Prothonotary Warbler
- Yellow dumped —> Yellow-rumped
- Yellow room for blur —> Yellow-rumped Warbler
Herons and Pelicans
- Night Karen —> Night-Heron
- Two bits —> Two bitterns
- Yellow crunchy hands —> Yellow-crowned Night Herons
- Veteran —> Bittern
- Battle Egret —> Cattle Egret
Shorebirds
- Redneck follow rope —> Red-Necked Phalarope
- Semi pollinated —> Semi-palmated
- Send me Paul mated —> Semi-palmated
- Semi pomated —> Semi-palmated
- Sunny palmated —> Semi Palmated
- Semi-palmated Clover —> Semi-palmated Plover
- Dowager —> Dowitcher
- Doubture —> Dowitcher
- Abby sets —> Avocets
- Lester yellowlegs —> Lesser Yellowlegs
- Semi palmetto plumbers —> Semipalmated Sandpipers
- Plumber —> Plover
Gallinules
- Gallileo
- Daniel
- Gallon Noels
- Gala News
- Gallonnewal
- Gallonual
Other Bird Names
- Kuyt —> Coot
- Cute —> Coot
- Hoops —> Whips (as in Whip-poor-wills)
- Dalton Kingfishers —> Belted Kingfishers
- Cedron —> Sedge Wren
- Marcia —-> Marsh Wren
- Pineville Greaves —> Pied-billed Grebes
- Three-horned greaves —> Three Horned Grebes
- Greaves —> Grebes
- Shorty towels —> Short-eared Owls
- Pivots —> Pipits
- Gold flock —> Gull flock
- Hearing goals —> Herring Gulls
- Lincoln —> Limpkin
- Olympic —> Limpkin
- Song Smiles —> Song Sparrows
- Broadway Talk —> Broad-winged Hawk
- Bald men —> Bald eagles
Places and other phrases
- Murder —> Birder
- Burger —> Birder
- Ebert —> eBird
- Alcohol duck pond —> Alcoa Duck Pond
- I’ll throw a duck pond —-> Alcoa Duck Pond
- Smaller than a nearby commune –> Smaller than a nearby Common [Loon]
- Cocktail marsh —-> Cattail marsh
- Peter watch —> Feeder watch
- Worst food on —> Worst photo
- Stilt paw —> Stilt Pond
- Kneebird —> eBird
- I Knud —> I canoed
- Handsome thoughts —> Had some thoughts
- Taco and Duck Pond —> Alcoa Duck Pond
- A cool duck pond —> Alcoa Duck Pond
- Hyperbottoms —> Kyker Bottoms
- Cocker Bottoms —> Kyker Bottoms
- Kicker Bottles —> Kyker Bottoms
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