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soap brain

Princessship Duchessship My cousin is 8, and he had to spell arteriosclerosis. And he can. And he talks about it all the time. Kinda weird choice, I thought, but I don't think he knows what it actually means. The misspelling of 'zoology' is understandable because it is usually mispronounced as well. It's not 'zoo-ology', it's 'zo-ology'.

Dan Neely

1.799 * 10^12 furlongs per fortnight 'tis a good idea and doth be the law. It took me forever to find a version of this that wasn't wrong.

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J4amieC

I keep telling my niece that if shes so good at spelling she needs to spell for me Floccinocinihilipilification or Antidisestablishmentarianism. And yes, I did just have to google the spelling of those 2 words.

J4amieC · modified on Friday, February 27, 2009 7:35 AM

Ok, Brrr asside. Find me one that is not actually spelt with a hyphen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness-shire[^] "The usual rules of English spelling outlaw triple letters. Hyphens are inserted into words such as bee-eater, bell-like, chaff-flower, cretaceo-oolitic, cross-section, egg-glass, joss-stick, off-flavour, hostess-ship, puff-fish, toll-lodge, and zoo-organic." from: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090123200258AAIS62W[^]

soap brain

J4amieC wrote:

Floccinocinihilipilification

Are you sure that's how to spell it? The spelling I found was 'Floccinaucinihilipilification'. :confused: My cousin said to me today that he wanted to learn Japanese because he "already knows every English word". I thought it was pretty cute.

Mike Gaskey

scottgp wrote:

or is you're humor as dry as mine?

:cool:

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Brady Kelly

:confused: I'm sure it was Christians point that if the sticker says "Your too close" then they are, so maybe I'm missing your point?

hairy_hats

Brady Kelly wrote:

"Your too close"

Grammar fail. It's "You're", short for "you are". He was complaining that he'd seen "you're" on a bumper sticker, well I was pointing out that if the sticker said "You're too close" then "you're" is correct in that context.

hairy_hats

Oops just re-read what both of you wrote, sorry for that! :-O

Lost User

Baconbutty wrote:

This is exacerbated by the schools not enforcing correct spelling, punctuation and a basic level of grammar.

Enforcement might bruise their poor little egos. Think of the children!!! ;-)

Dalek Dave

I'm sorry, but are you really using Wiki as a source? Frillless is in the OED! And you should know better than to apply generic rules to the English Language. Most, I agree, will be represented in a hyphenated format, but such terms as Priestessship and Governessship are ruled legal by their use in past times. Indeed, the OED does extensive checks on whether a word has been used in print before it allows it, and governesssip and others like it are common in 17th and 18th century works, therefore are included in the OED, regardless of their common usage today. Ironically, Frillless is a kind of Pufffish! :)

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Dalek Dave

Yours is the correct spelling!

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Dalek Dave

dan neely wrote:

1.799 * 10^12 furlongs per fortnight

I can't be bothered to do the maths, but is that C?

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Brady Kelly

It happens. :laugh:

Vikram A Punathambekar

I am also bothered by the fact that you, a native speaker of English, say "I could care less". That actually implies that you care about whatever you're talking about; you should be saying "I couldn't care less". :|

Cheers, Vıkram.

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Dan Neely

almost, but not quite. 186,000 miles/second = 1.799884E12 furlongs/fortnight. Almost everyone who made a bumper sticker used that value but then treated 186,000 as the exact value instead of applying significant digits which permit 3 digits and require rounding to the nearest for 1.80E12. If you use the proper value for c of 186,282.397 miles per second you get 1.8026E12 furlongs/fortnight. Which meant that everyone got it wrong. Eventually I found a vendor that just had 1.8E12, but I was completely unable to find 1.802E12 anywhere.

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Oakman

Baconbutty wrote:

I think it's down to the "older" generation to enforce standards.

I take great pride in my spelling - use a checker whenever I'm not sure, so only an occasional typo gets through to embarrass me. But some of the old farts who post here, who are almost as ancient as I am, cannot spell any better than the young'uns. I sometimes wonder if they can write code as sloppily as they write their native tongue.

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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

I am also bothered by the fact that you, a native speaker of English, say "I could care less". That actually implies that you care about whatever you're talking about; you should be saying "I couldn't care less".

While it is indeed a bastardization of "I couldn't care less" it's so popularly used in American spoken English that it has established itself as a valid phrase in informal writing. It's typically used with a bit of sarcasm. So the people using it are not really using it because they've got it wrong - at least in the States. I don't know where you observed CG using it, but he may have picked it up from his US visits :-)

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JimmyRopes

Oakman wrote:

I take great pride in my spelling ... But some of the old farts who post here, who are almost as ancient as I am, cannot spell any better than the young'uns. I sometimes wonder if they can write code as sloppily as they write their native tongue.

The best part about coding is if you misspell a word consistently you just have another variable, albeit strange sounding.

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Vikram A Punathambekar

It really grates on the ears (well, the eyes, if you insist). :| I've seen him use it more than once.

Cheers, Vıkram.

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