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To: B4Ranch

Current pet peeves:

“Toe the line” not “Tow” Comes from putting your toe on the line as in a race.

Leaving out the “of” - as in, “A couple folks were telling me....”

Lightening for lightning.

Pronouncing shrimp as “srimp” or “strimp”

Pronouncing sherbet as “sher bert”


374 posted on 09/19/2016 12:56:08 PM PDT by Drawsing (Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
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To: Drawsing

Stress causes cancer. Give up sweating that there’s folks who aren’t well educated in our society. Generally it’s those who aren’t inquisitive. I can’t think of any way to increase their inquisitiveness. They’ll muddle through it without knowing that they occasionally make mistakes, as we all do.


375 posted on 09/19/2016 1:33:45 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
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