Semantics 101

[Fungo Squiggly]

That link just says there's an entry. It could be an entry that says "you have misspelled this word".

Nope. It has no listing of 'villanize.'

 

[Thump]

That link just says there's an entry. It could be an entry that says "you have misspelled this word".

Type in "villanize" and tell me what you get.

 

[Pheasant]

Type in "villanize" and tell me what you get.

No, make me :p

 

[tyrus]

Type in "villanize" and tell me what you get.

I did, and it says....WHO GIVES A FUCK!!!!!

 

[Pheasant]

OK, so I did it. (I'm really fucking bored)
This is what I got:
The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search box to the right.

Suggestions for villanize:

1. villainies 2. villainess 3. villains 4. villainous 5. vileness 6. violence 7. Vilnius 8. valiancy 9. villainy 10. violences</PRE>

 

[Thump]

I did, and it says....WHO GIVES A FUCK!!!!!

You make funny!

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

Hey BN27,

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/villainize

Hey Thump,

lol. more pointedly,...

http://www.onelook.com/?w=villainize&ls=a

Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the word villainize.

Perhaps you meant: <table><tbody><tr><td>villanize</td><td width="10">
</td><td>(found in 5 dictionaries)</td></tr> <tr><td>villanized</td><td width="10">
</td><td>(found in 4 dictionaries)</td></tr> <tr><td>villanizer</td><td width="10">
</td><td>(found in 4 dictionaries)</td></tr> <tr><td>villainies</td><td width="10">
</td><td>(found in 3 dictionaries)</td></tr> <tr><td>vizierial</td><td width="10">
</td><td>(found in 5 dictionaries)</td></tr></tbody></table>

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

Just to muddle things up even more, I googled both villanize and villainize. Villanize returned 1,600 entries. Villainize returned 9,300. Villanize may be proper, but only about 1 out of 7 people know that. :tongue2:

boy, there are tons of misspellings and misuses that are more common than the correct spellings and uses. for example, even large and standard publications misspell millennium with one 'n.' jfk airport spells canceled as "cancelled," which is the british american spelling. the argument can be made that jfk is an international airport; therefore, the spelling is not incorrect. nearly everyone misuses hopefully. nearly everyone mispronounces often, long-lived, and chaise longue. dictionaries have bended so much as to include as variant pronunciations these pronunciations that were once, but not now, considered common among the ignorant. heck, chaise longe has been so bastardized that lounge chair is now an american english label for chaise longue, which means "long chair" -- not "lounge chair."

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Please explain.

 

[Thump]

boy, there are tons of misspellings and misuses that are more common than the correct spellings and uses. for example, even large and standard publications misspell millennium with one 'n.' jfk airport spells canceled as "cancelled," which is the british american spelling. the argument can be made that jfk is an international airport; therefore, the spelling is not incorrect. nearly everyone misuses hopefully. nearly everyone mispronounces often, long-lived, and chaise longue. dictionaries have bended so much as to include as a variant pronunciations these pronunciations that were once, but not now, considered common among the ignorant. heck, chaise longe has been so bastardized that lounge chair is now an american english label for chaise longue, which means "long chair" -- not "lounge chair."

I always wondered about cancelled. We were taught to spell it with two "L's" but I've seen it spelled more recently with one.

 

[SanAntonioBuck]

I always wondered about cancelled. We were taught to spell it with two "L's" but I've seen it spelled more recently with one.

Please explain. :scum4:

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

I always wondered about cancelled. We were taught to spell it with two "L's" but I've seen it spelled more recently with one.

if you are from the states, then your teacher misled you. in american english, canceled is spelled with one l because the emphasis is placed on the first syllable (really, just not the last syllable). if the emphasis were placed on the final syllable, then there would be two. this is a very, very common mistake.

edit: in correct american english, pronouncing "cancelled" would yield can-SELLED.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Awl Eye Knead two no howe too Spelling iz FUCK MICHIGAN!

Dammit.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

boy, there are tons of misspellings and misuses that are more common than the correct spellings and uses. for example, even large and standard publications misspell millennium with one 'n.' jfk airport spells canceled as "cancelled," which is the british american spelling. the argument can be made that jfk is an international airport; therefore, the spelling is not incorrect. nearly everyone misuses hopefully. nearly everyone mispronounces often, long-lived, and chaise longue. dictionaries have bended so much as to include as variant pronunciations these pronunciations that were once, but not now, considered common among the ignorant. heck, chaise longe has been so bastardized that lounge chair is now an american english label for chaise longue, which means "long chair" -- not "lounge chair."

Hell, there are words where the definition changes according to common usage. "Prodigal" does NOT mean returning after an absence. It means wasteful, but I have never, ever heard it used properly. I believe it was George Carlin who once said, "Fuck 'common usage'." Just for the record, I'm pretty sure he meant to say "Fuck Michigan."

 

[vrbryant]

edit: in correct american english, pronouncing "cancelled" would yield can-SELLED.

...with french-fried potatoes.

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