Rant about spelling!

old dude wrote:No worse than standing "on" line. Are we to think that someone painted a line on the concrete and people are all standing on it?

One can do a lot of things with a line, but in the context of queuing up very few people stand "on" it. They stand "in" it.

No use to get upset about regionalism in idiomatic expression. Interesting comments here - https://quay.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/s ... g-on-line/

I enjoyed the reference to Stanley Kubrick standing on line.

I received an official letter from Bank of Ney York Mellon in which this Financial Institution spelled "Capital" as "Capitol"......in reference to "Capital Gains"

Unbelievable when it's their Business!!!

The person that let that letter go out should have been fired.

Therapist wrote:

TangledHose wrote:
In the U.S. You will always see it spelled "Artifact" ......you'll just have to get used to it

+1

"Artefact" is listed as a variant of "artifact" in some U.S. dictionaries.

I did mention in my first post on page one of this thread that American Dictionaries list both spellings as acceptable, with Artifact as the preferred version in the U.S.........which brings us to another rant.......seems that some people don't really READ completely before posting

Therapist wrote:

old dude wrote:No worse than standing "on" line. Are we to think that someone painted a line on the concrete and people are all standing on it?

One can do a lot of things with a line, but in the context of queuing up very few people stand "on" it. They stand "in" it.

No use to get upset about regionalism in idiomatic expression. Interesting comments here - https://quay.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/s ... g-on-line/

I enjoyed the reference to Stanley Kubrick standing on line.

Just as I suspected, it's another attempt to marginalize us poor southerners. Perhaps I'll go have a soda and try to forget about it.

Eye halve a spelling chequer. It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques four my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word and weight four it two say
weather eye am wrong oar write.
It shows me strait a weigh, as soon as a mist ache is maid.
It nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite.
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Hope this helps.

RogerSC wrote: It still bothers me to read postings with no capital letters and little punctuation, but e e cummings got away with it, so I can be tolerant and focus on content, too *smile*.

I don't know if you're poking at me with that, but I'll take it... *lol*

andy88488 wrote: My personal pet peeve is the "complimentary" oil change. I always mutter "So it's an oil change that says nice things about you?" (It should be "complementary")

so much better than the rude oil changes that flip you off and soil your shoes.

archangle wrote:What's you're favorite misused or misspelled word?

people that can't get the distinction between

you're and your your

or they're their and there.

TangledHose wrote:.which brings us to another rant.......seems that some people don't really READ completely before posting

or at all... after all, what other people say isn't important... now, get out of my way! *push*

If I were a neubee just stumbleing in this site neeading help .... between this thread and the one "asshats unite", I might be afaraid to post a question for feer of speling something rong or using the rong tesce of a word.

Seeing as we're doing this, can someone tell me when and why the phrase "I'm going to lie down" became "I'm going to lay down"? It's been a longggg time.

TangledHose wrote:I did mention in my first post on page one of this thread that American Dictionaries list both spellings as acceptable, with Artifact as the preferred version in the U.S.........which brings us to another rant.......seems that some people don't really READ completely before posting

How about a rant about people who have the silly expectation that everyone who comments in a thread will first have read all the measly posts.

Wulfman... wrote:

Julie wrote:OK, this is great - I didn't know that somewhere the 'wrong' spelling (as I know it) is considered to be legitimate. I've only ever seen it used (artEfact) in med. publications so thought it was the only correct spelling. Now I know.

I think it also might have struck me the same way as the incorrect pronunciation of "suite" (as in furniture) as 'suit' (in clothes), and that's really hard to hear!

Just out of curiosity, I spelled it into a blank MS Word document and the one with "i" was deemed correct and the one with "e" was initially auto-corrected to an "i" and when I deliberately changed it back to an "e" it red-underlined it as incorrect.

I can't say that I've ever seen it spelled with an "e", but then there's still quite a few things I still haven't seen.


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It depends on which dictionary you use. If you use a French one your whole document will be red.

old dude wrote:

Just as I suspected, it's another attempt to marginalize us poor southerners. Perhaps I'll go have a soda and try to forget about it.

Oh, you are a Southerner. Not too many years ago I flew into Birmingham in January and it was a tiny bit cold. A Southern gentleman picked me up at the airport and we started on a two-hour drive.

He told me he had the car heater running so that I would not get cold, but asked that I should tell him if it was too warm and he would cut it off. That was fine.

A while later I asked him if he thought it was getting warm in the car. He said, "Yes, I will cut the heater off."

Then the pleasant gentleman added, "If you get too cool, let me know and I will cut the heater on."

Now I understand "cutting off the heater", but how do you in the South "cut it on".

Julie wrote:Seeing as we're doing this, can someone tell me when and why the phrase "I'm going to lie down" became "I'm going to lay down"? It's been a longggg time.

I've always wondered about the Bob Dylan song "Lay Lady Lay". I've had a suspicion (and apparently many others have, too) that it was written about a dog......and not a woman. But, I've never been able to find any definitive proof about it being about a dog (or a woman for that matter).

Then, there's the Eric Clapton song "Lay Down Sally". Sounds like another "dog" song.

Don't mind me, I'm in a weird mood today.


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