Words that have escaped you

[PlanetFrnd]

I tu vote tu do that for thayer and another word, making tu combined cases.

Tu espanol es terible.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

Floccinaucinihilipilificator.

is it sad that i already knew the definition of that word?

i consider myself to be a very good speller with a sizable vocabulary; however, in high school, i was once dumbstruck by the word who. i couldn't recall the spelling. i almost convinced myself that it was spelled h-o-w, which ramped the absurdity another level.

occasion and occurrence definitely give me fits.

 

[Nutriaitch]

any word that has a double letter, I almost always double the letter BEFORE the one I'm supposed to double.

I usually catch it with spell check.

But I usually type in coonass (which spell check doesn't recognize) when e-mailing co-workers, friends, or family, so I have a bad habit of ignoring spell check at times.

 

[MaxBuck]

As for enormity, you may consider it atrocious to find this third definition:

Dictionary.com

The horror.

know I feel the same way about the improper use of criteria as a singular noun becoming accepted.

I thought about the word "agenda;" apparently the same thing happened there, a long time ago.

Apparently I'm quite the language prig.

 

[Gatorubet]

Apparently I'm quite the language prig.

You mis-spelled "prick"

 

[Wells4Heisman]

I misspell women k-i-t-c-h-e-n sometimes.... :tongue2:

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

My grandson calls those pink birds flingamagoes and my sister always says "turkeyroyce" for "turquoise".

Our niece calls the marine mammals "dolephants".

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

The proper use of "comprise" is another one that no one gets right. Look it up. Then never, ever use the term "comprised of" again.

Oh, yeah. "Enormity." It doesn't mean "the condition of being really fucking huge." It means something else entirely, pinhead. So quit using it wrong.

the misuse of the following words don't perk up my ears so much as the proper use, which is rare, does:

compose/comprise, enormity/enormousness, fewer/less, farther/further, imply/infer, and nauseous/nauseated.

 

[Taosman]

"But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts--by help of the reader's imagination, which is always ready to take a hand and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.

 

[BB73]

Here's something that bothers me that I just remembered.

Unattributed quotes, especially ones by Mark Twain.

 

[Ttown]

BB73's wife spells S E X as Headache.

 

[BB73]

the misuse of the following words don't perk up my ears so much as the proper use, which is rare, does:

compose/comprise, enormity/enormousness, fewer/less, farther/further, imply/infer, and nauseous/nauseated.

When I saw it yesterday, I noticed your correct use of fewer in a post in this thread.

Another pair that is frequently misused is affect/effect.

 

[BB73]

BB73's wife spells S E X as Headache.

What are you inferring? You're statement won't effect the way I feel about her, but I hope you stay further away from her. We may have sex less times than I'd prefer, but it's not as if its a rare occurrance such as only on special occassions, and she told me the thought of having sex with you makes her nauseous. She said you didn't have the one criteria that she needed in a man. Words cannot express the enormity of her dislike for you, and the things her negative feelings are comprised of, well, there to numerous to mention.





OK, first person to correctly identify all of the mistakes in the previous paragraph gets greenies.

 

[Ttown]

What are you inferring? You're statement won't effect the way I feel about her, but I hope you stay further away from her. We may have sex less times than I'd prefer, but it's not as if its a rare occurrance such as only on special occassions, and she told me the thought of having sex with you makes her nauseous. She said you didn't have the one criteria that she needed in a man. Words cannot express the enormity of her dislike for you, and the things her negative feelings are comprised of, well, there to numerous to mention.



OK, first person to correctly identify all of the mistakes in the previous paragraph gets greenies.

OK I bolded the word that is a lie for you.

 

[ulukinatme]

I don't know what it is, but I have the WORST time with the word stamina. I can type it fine, but whenever I say it out loud I reverse the "m" and the "n" so it's stanima. No idea why