Olgar Shiverstone
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Who's team. You know, the team for which Who plays first.
Words, Phrases, and Misspellings We Hate
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Who's team. You know, the team for which Who plays first.
Baron Greystone
Explorer
I know only one Australian.
Yet on a daily basis I am bombarded with people who say, "No worries."
CUT IT OUT!
Yet on a daily basis I am bombarded with people who say, "No worries."
CUT IT OUT!
Scrivener of Doom
Adventurer
Hehe. I am Australian. I miss hearing this. (I lived in Singapore for a decade+ before this and I was used to Australian-educated Singaporeans saying it to me quite frequently.
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One of the things I've run into lately is people who correct or point out "mistakes" that aren't. The most recent was on FB yesterday where someone was ripping whoever made a sign about "Wilful or malicious destruction..." instead of "Willful".
Of course the OED marks it as the preferred spelling, it shows up as an accepted alternative in the standard desk top American dictionaries, it spell checks ok on MS word, it was more common than the two-l spelling until the middle of the last century in the US, and it's still apparently the main spelling outside the US.
Ironically (?), ENWorld spell checks it as wrong
Of course the OED marks it as the preferred spelling, it shows up as an accepted alternative in the standard desk top American dictionaries, it spell checks ok on MS word, it was more common than the two-l spelling until the middle of the last century in the US, and it's still apparently the main spelling outside the US.
Ironically (?), ENWorld spell checks it as wrong
Starfox
Hero
The question is; who mugged who.
Coming from Scandinavia, I must point out that some of our words were knocked into English by viking invaders, and later you got fed some French (much of it culinary) by another group of vikings (and their descendants) from the part of France that still carries the name of the northmen; Normandy. What is strange about the Normans is that they adopted French in just a few generations, but it took them hundreds of years to adopt English.
Ironically (?), ENWorld spell checks it as wrong
EN World doesn't spell check anything. That'll be your browser.
Gack. MS (Word) being more enlightened than Google (Chrome) seems wrong!
Savage Wombat
Hero
Everyone still hate everything on this thread? Good!
Jeff Carlsen
Adventurer
I like to return to this thread to feed my ire on those rare weeks where no one omits an Oxford comma.
Scrivener of Doom
Adventurer
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