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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Gary Dowler on December 08, 2018, 04:48:08 PM
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What if Noah Webster actually misspelled half the words in the dictionary when he wrote it? Just sayin.......
Gary
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LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ VD~ VD~
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Who uses the dictionary when we have a computer that not only corrects our spelling but gives a definition even if it isn't the one we wanted? S?P
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What if Noah Webster actually misspelled half the words in the dictionary when he wrote it? Just sayin.......
Gary
How do we know he didn't?
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How do we know he didn't?
I told this to my 16 yo daughter. She looked surprised and said "great, my entire education could be based on a lie!!" LOL!!
Love messing with her like that! Life rough with a smart ass for a dad!
Gary
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Since we use the Oxford dictionary Webster’s misspellings are not generally cause for concern.
Good luck solving this dilemma.
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Noah spent more time building than spelling LL~
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I told this to my 16 yo daughter. She looked surprised and said "great, my entire education could be based on a lie!!" LOL!!
Love messing with her like that! Life rough with a smart ass for a dad!
Gary
Wait till she gets out into the "real" world and finds out that it really was but it had nothing to do with spelling. ~^
Ken
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Every body knows they spelled coffee wrong. It should be kauphy. They did not even get one letter right.
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Every body knows they spelled coffee wrong. It should be kauphy. They did not even get one letter right.
I have a Franklin Spelling Ace spell checker that recognizes kauphy and corrects it!!! LL~ It has become my test word for all spell checkers.
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Hmmm... Eye sea watt ewe mein.
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As a young lad playing Scrabble with my family, I could make up some really neat words, but, they would not allow them. What a bunch of kill joys they were. They just did not understand my vocabulary. Ted Fancher makes up words all the time that no one has ever heard before, and he gets by with it. Sheesh!
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Although it wasn't my official duty, I spent a lot of time during my professional career reviewing and correcting spelling and grammatical errors in technical papers written by my colleagues, who were technically qualified, but totally "at sea" concerning English grammar and spelling. So much for our educational system having anything to do with Webster's book. Noah was wasting his time, according to these people.
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I play a couple of word games on the MSN site. Amazing how ignorant the programmer is when it comes to some words. D>K
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My personal rant is the misuse of pronouns. Switching me for I, him for he, her for she. R%%%%
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My personal rant is the misuse of pronouns. Switching me for I, him for he, her for she. R%%%%
My biggest irritation is the use of "for free". This is not correct. If you are describing the cost, or lack of cost, for a offered good or service, and the seller states "for...." it carries the requirement that an exchange take place.
Given that none of us possess "free" as a commodity that we may exchange, the proper term is simply "free".
Gary
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"My personal rant is the misuse of pronouns. Switching me for I, him for he, her for she. "
You can blame that on Tonto. He and his pal, Lone Ranger, have taught young kids that proper English doesn't matter because "that's how they talk on the TV."