Great points. I went into this knowing full-well that to many, many people, these misspellings were not considered as such. As the graph suggests, though, the m

Great points. I went into this knowing full-well that to many, many people, these misspellings were not considered as such. As the graph suggests, though, the majority of people still use the "older" spellings of "yeah" and "anyway". There are two ways of spelling each one (with "yea" and "anyways" considered to be the more nascent), and I'm approaching this from the standpoint of why the spellings are changing. Is the language evolving (suggesting improvement) or devolving (suggesting perpetuated errors). We could discuss linguistics, but what indicators are there from the data showing Reddit has a lower percentage of yeas and anywayss compared to Twitter? Is it simply the medium? How does that data compare to your anecdotal classification of the respective aggregate intelligence level of both sites' users? What do you think the data would say about HN vs. Youtube on the frequency of these (as you would consider) both valid spellings? This all boils down to me labeling the graph as common misspellings, but ignoring that, you should be able to make of the graphs what you will, as there's no associated hypothesis or conclusion.