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EVER NOTICE?

Post by Joe Gopan » Sun Oct 15, 2017 10:57 pm

Ever notice how the word "Yoke" gets misspelled? :wink:
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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by Scoutpilot » Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:19 am

How about “breaks”?
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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by Joe Gopan » Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:42 am

Good one. :wink:
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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by GUNNUT in Iowa » Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:58 am

Know, eye half never scene that.

I love the English language.
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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by Michael O. » Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:20 am

In our modern age, homonym errors are a result of modern technology...i.e., spell correct or word prediction software. Our computers and iPads aren't as smart as we are sometimes. So, unless you "teach" the software the word "yoke" or specifically select it from the pop up list of words, the word software thinks you meant to type "yolk" and will automatically switch it. If one doesn't catch this switch, it's easily missed.

Isn't technology great?
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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by Mark Jesic » Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:31 am

If people today wrote letters properly, instead of shortening words on stupid phone texting, then perhaps the standard of spelling would get better, and we could have our English Grammar back, just my opinion. :)

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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by Chuck W. » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:17 am

My grammar passed away a while back, and she was not English.

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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by conrod6 » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:40 am

Over in the UK we seem to get "would of " instead of "would have" . Always annoys me !

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Post by Chuck Lutz » Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:09 pm

I think it all went to hell when we decided the English needed to clean up "English"....and we cleaned it up for them....

We got rid of an extra "u" in color.
Same for that other pesky "i" in aluminum.

We decided a bonnet was a hat and while a hood was still an item of clothing, a hood blowing in the wind is more like a car hood than a hat.
Boots go on your feet, I have no idea why we went with "trunk" though.

I have a screen door on the front of my house that lets air through the screen, but I don't have a windscreen on my vehicles...I have GLASS to keep the rain and the bug spatter from passing through. I will give the English a point for shortening "umbrella" to "brolly".

Television may have become "the telly" but we went all the way with "TV".

While food has been available in tin cans for over a hundred years, the English went with "tin" and we went with "can" to describe the container.

Take a recent arrival to the UK out for "bangers and mash" and they aren't sure if its a drug reference, something illicit with a woman of ill-repute or something else. Conversely, maybe a new arrival here would be concerned about finding out dinner was going to be a "hot dog" and not a wiener or a sausage of some sort.

Its funny though, most foreign singers sing like they were raised in the US, not in the UK.....
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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by JD136 » Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:22 pm

Chuck

I believe the term "trunk" came from the storage trunk that was strapped to the rear of 1920's era cars.
When the rear end had an enclosed storage area in later years it was naturally called a trunk.

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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by wreckless » Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:46 pm

Site and Sight get juxtaposed frequently in words like website and gunsight.
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Post by Niblet » Wed Oct 18, 2017 3:58 pm

The English have that great pastime of "Dogging" as well!
wish we had that here
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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by CharlieGPW » Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:35 am

Funny how colours is always spelled wrongly!! ;)

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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by twinflyer17 » Thu Oct 19, 2017 5:20 am

What about your vs. you're, their vs. there vs. they're, were vs. we're? I could go on and on and on....
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Re: EVER NOTICE?

Post by HankII » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:01 pm

I believe the term "trunk" came from the storage trunk that was strapped to the rear of 1920's era cars.
When the rear end had an enclosed storage area in later years it was naturally called a trunk.

With all the spellcheck apps, seems it's getting harder to misspell stuff.
Multiple-definition terms, however, like Trunk, rear end, caboose, etc... can be somewhat ambiguous...
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