a spelling lesson

[happythoughts 0]

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Ok, I’ve been saving these for a while.

Keep up the Good Work. You are making the world a better place. If only others...

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This is all people have to judge you on.

btw, lead by example. No prepositions at the end of sentences because that is all that people have to judge you on.

(You gotta admit, that was good. Sometimes, I astound myself. )

[kelel01 1]

Ok, another one:

Seam: where two pieces of fabric meet
Seem: as in, "It would seem so".

Peek: to look at something discretely
Peak: to achieve your highest potential, or the top of a mountain

GEEZ!

[craichead 0]

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Peek: to look at something discretely
Peak: to achieve your highest potential, or the top of a mountain

Don't forget:

Pique: to excite or arouse by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff

As in, to pique one's curiosity or interest.

_Pm

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"Scared of love, love and aeroplanes...falling out, I said takes no brains." -- Andy Partridge (XTC)

[Rebecca 0]

Ugh! That one kills me!!

"My interest was peeked when I overheard her say she visited Pike's Pique, so I had to take a peak around the corner"

you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?

[happythoughts 0]

I always proofread carefully to see if I any words out.

[flyangel2 2]

You forgot Peek, as in Gary

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

[ffejdraga 0]

Damn,
how about digging up a nice thread that is almost a year old!!!

Nice job kel, that should give you a good shot at PW for the year

jeff D-16906

[Squeak 17]

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Peek: to look at something discretely
Peak: to achieve your highest potential, or the top of a mountain

Don't forget:

Pique: to excite or arouse by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff

As in, to pique one's curiosity or interest.

_Pm

Do you want to edit that now before too many peole see it

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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Peek: to look at something discretely
Peak: to achieve your highest potential, or the top of a mountain

GEEZ!

Geez indeed. You meant to say, "disCREETly."


-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[craichead 0]

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As in, to pique one's curiosity or interest.

Do you want to edit that now before too many peole see it

What's wrong with that? It's grammatically correct. "One's" is the possessive form of one.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=in%20one's%20interest

A simpler way to look at it would be to replace "one" with, say..."Squeak."

As in, to pique Squeak's curiosity or interest. So who's the one who needs to edit?

_Pm

PS - You misspelled "people." Don't mess with me--I used to be a newspaper copy editor.

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"Scared of love, love and aeroplanes...falling out, I said takes no brains." -- Andy Partridge (XTC)

[Remster 30]

God.... the spelling nazis are going after each other now! Blood will be flowing soon!

Remster

[Rebecca 0]

I love it! Who's got popcorn?

you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk?

[kelel01 1]

You can spell it either way. Look it up.

Never mind. Don't. I'm not so sure it's right anymore.

But "discreet" looks stupid.

[bbarnhouse 0]

Oh geez ya'll crack me up!
Since this is a global site, English may be a persons second or third language!
In Sangiro's case, I think he speaks six.
Course, I misspell the same words over and over again...I'm hooked on phonics!!

[kelel01 1]

It may be, but I normally check first before ragging on people. If his name is John Smith, and he's from Arkansas, he's probably not a foreign national.

[Remster 30]

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It may be, but I normally check first before ragging on people. If his name is John Smith, and he's from Arkansas, he's probably not a foreign national.

Kelly S? What a wierd last name.. she must be a foreign...

Remster

[kelel01 1]

Well, and then there are people like you. I know you're French-Canadian, so I don't bust your balls.

People like Turtlespeed and Wingnut, though . . . NO EXCUSE!

[Remster 30]

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I know you're French-Canadian, so I don't bust your balls.

Too easy... I'm not making that joke...

Remster

[Evelyn 0]

The following is an e-mail that was sent to me recently. Thought it would be appropriate to post here
For the "Teacher" in all of us.....try this on for size!

THIS SHOULD RATTLE YOUR BRAINS A LITTLE

If you ever feel stupid, then just read on. If you've learned to speak fluent English, you must be a genius! This little treatise on the lovely language we share is only for the brave. Peruse at your leisure, English lovers. Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and
get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise ! man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing ~ Helen Keller

[Squeak 17]

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As in, to pique one's curiosity or interest.

Do you want to edit that now before too many peole see it

What's wrong with that? It's grammatically correct. "One's" is the possessive form of one.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=in%20one's%20interest

A simpler way to look at it would be to replace "one" with, say..."Squeak."

As in, to pique Squeak's curiosity or interest. So who's the one who needs to edit?

_Pm

PS - You misspelled "people." Don't mess with me--I used to be a newspaper copy editor.

I was taught that 's (apostrophe before an s ) is an abreiviation. s' us for ownership
as in ones' or Squeaks'

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[craichead 0]

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I was taught that 's (apostrophe before an s ) is an abreiviation. s' us for ownership
as in ones' or Squeaks'

Is that what they're teaching in the penal colony these days?

I kid the Squeak!

See here: The Apostrophe Protection Society

Who knew there was such a thing?!

_Pm

PS - abbreviation

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"Scared of love, love and aeroplanes...falling out, I said takes no brains." -- Andy Partridge (XTC)

[happythoughts 0]

AAAA Americans Against Aimless Alliteration

[BillyVance 35]

this may be off the thread, but....

Why the fuck do we call some cokes DIET cokes, but some beers are LIGHT or LITE beers???

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban