Rouges sux!

[Herschel]

Borrow vs. lend.

Just sayin'.

 

[Halivar]

Ewe no, the reel problem hear is that sew many wards can bee spelled write butt the checker can naught tail if the grammar is, two.

 

[Bullgrit]

One of my favorite Web sites:
Common Errors in English

And rouge/rogue is in the list.

Bullgrit

 

[Grazzt]

Irregardless.

Sadly, this one is actually in the dictionary.

irregardless - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

 

[Stormtalon]

I shall stick to my guns and spell "Rogue" as I pronounced it: "Ragu!"

There, I've preserved the "u", gotten rid of the superfluous "o" & "e", added an "a" and made it into a two-syllable word!

Additionally, it's very apt as quite often they end up looking like their namesakes....

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

Rogue is spelled so as to guarantee(there's that U again) a non-ambiguous pronunciation. So I really don't agree with your second sentence there.

Maybe I'm abnormal, but before I heard someone else say 'rogue' I pronounced it such that it ryhmed with a brand of pasta sauce. (Ragu, rague? Can't remember the spelling.) When I see a written U, I pronounce it unless informed otherwise.

I'll give you two. Rouge & Roger.

Neither of those are G sounds. Roger is pronounced with a J sound, and 'rouge' is pronounced with a sound that English doesn't have a letter for. You might compare it to the J sound, but it's nothing like G. S and Z, and T and D sound more similiar to each other than G does to that sound.

 

[Derulbaskul]

"...if I were Morrus..."
Pedantic posts tend to have greater authority when they do not contain grammatical errors.​

Was is also correct although it is the colloquial/informal form (do you want sources?).

 

[Fifth Element]

Was is also correct although it is the colloquial/informal form (do you want sources?).

One could argue that it's is the colloquial form of its, if one were so inclined.

What's the point of internet pedantism if one cannot insist that English grammar is immutable and inflexible? That is, I learned in school that the subjunctive must be used in the case of a hypothetical, therefore it is the only proper way!

Or to put it another way, blargh!

 

[Doug Sundseth]

"...if I were Morrus..."

Pedantic posts tend to have greater authority when they do not contain grammatical errors.​

Muphry's Law*, of course, makes that a low-probability event.


* stet: See, for example, Muphry's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Aberzanzorax]

Even ENworld is guilty of grammatical "impurity"

Even ENworld is guilty of grammatical "impurity"


"You have given out too much Experience Points in the last 24 hours, try again later."


SHOULD BE:

"You have given out too many Experience Points in the last 24 hours; try again later."

or

"You have given out too much experience [eliminate "Points"] in the last 24 hours; try again later."

OR

Either of the above, but putting a period after "hours" and capitalizing "Try".


Not that it bugs me, but I'm just sayin'.