Posted on 05/29/2007 2:17:17 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
I never heard it pronounced with “th”. I wonder if that’s a regional pronunciation.
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My dad and grandad said that one. I think It was poor grammar that was once common many years ago. Read a tom sawyer novel and you will see all kinds of poor grammar that you will never see today.
width, length, and heighth...the three dimensions of any object in a three dimensional world.
Same here.
also: further and farther.
Spigot is not pronounced “Spikot”.
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...of course not...it’s pronounced “spickit”. :)
“”Unnamed co-conspirator””
That one too....lol Or better yet, “unindicted co-conspirator”
Those are always tough to call, but I try to use “farther” meaning a physical distance and “further” meaning something more abstract, like an idea or concept.
I live in NJ. 99% of the population here has the same attitude. They’re a bunch of control freaks who can’t run their own lives, but insist on running everyone else’s.
Normally, “affect” is a verb and “effect” is a noun. It seems so many people misused “effect” as a verb that it came into popular usage, but they certainly don’t mean the same thing at all.
To “affect the outcome” means to have an impact on it.
To “effect an outcome” means to produce a result.
Aren’t those both verbs?
If you can find the ones you like online, order a gross of them, like a friend of mine used to do. That way, he had them at his fingertips wherever he was - telephone, breakfast table, bathroom, car, bedroom - and they were cheap, cheap, cheap. As was he - but rich, rich, rich.
Because if you COULD care less, then that implies that you must care about it at least a little.
Yes, I said *normally* one was a verb and one was a noun, but people started using the noun as a verb, like a lot of the words we’ve been discussing here - and now it’s accepted.
I think my insurance would pay for the eye exam and glasses, but I’d have to drive up to Fort Dix, and I’m too lazy. So I just buy them at drug stores, flea markets, or wherever I run across a pair that looks good.
Trying to find the right pair of glasses isn’t what bothers me. It’s these controlling sales people who refuse to understand that I want what I want, not what they tell me I should want. One of these days I’m going to ask one of them a question, they’re going to give me a straight answer, and I’m going to fall over from a heart attack.
"Same here. . . .also: further and farther"
Struggle, yes. Do you get it right?
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I Don’t know. I’ve found sources that claim further and farther are perfectly interchangeable. So I gave up years ago.
Adolph’s Meat Tenderizer (papain) was what I used to use - except the one time I accidentally put Accent in the kit and MSG is *not* what you want, lol. Love Benadryl spray for lots of uses, though!
We who have swum with the sharks and barracudas understand these things!
Still, to my North American ear, whinge has such a delicious Monty Pythonesque ring to it.
Yes, I think I dropped the ball there. It would have read the same without it. And should it have been “among”, anyway? Hey, I’m working on it - it’s been a long, long time since I studied grammar.
“Farther” is an adjective while (whilst?) “further” is a verb, is it not?
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