A dinosaur picked a fight with the dictionary on Twitter and it was brutal
Don't start a war of words with the dictionary.
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Today in weird things that happen on the internet, a dinosaur picked a random fight with a dictionary and lost so, so hard.
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It all started when SUE the T.rex ran a poll asking her followers what type of fresh dinosaur #content they would like to see from the account. Random feuds won the poll, and yes, SUE is a REAL dinosaur, and you can visit its skeleton at the Field Museum in Chicago.
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SUE honored the results of the poll, and picked a fight with the Twitter account for Merriam-Webster dictionary, which was a terrible idea.
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The dictionary hit back with a perfect dino joke, shutting SUE down with one perfect tweet.
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The internet had its own jokes.
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SUE had a pretty good attitude about the whole thing.
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The dinosaur even retweeted someone who said it was probably a mistake to get into a war of words with a dictionary.
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In an internet filled with constant fighting, bickering, threats, and abuse, we'll take dinosaur vs. dictionary any day.
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