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Words that have escaped you

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MolGenBuckeye;1705184; said:
YES! Maintenance is just a dumb way to spell it. You're maintaining something, not maintening it. (Although I usually go for maintainance rather than -ence)
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If it weren't for Spanish and the wonderful verb "tener" with obtener, contener, detener, and mantener, I'd do the same thing.

However, due to Spanish, I have issues with these types of words:
possible posible-double "s" words don't exist in Spanish
or any -tion words, since I would rather put -ci?n...
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1705245; said:
everytime i try to type a word that starts with stu, i just finish it off with stupid.....because i've called people stupid on the internet since i started using it.
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Stunning stupified stuntmen stumble, stunned sturdy sturgeons study students, stubbornly stuttering staccato stuffs.

Also, Albuquerque. Dammit Jake.

And sturgeons.

Edit: And stucatto.
 
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Deety;1705254; said:
Stunning stupified stuntmen stumble, stunned sturdy sturgeons study students, stubbornly stuttering staccato stuffs.

Also, Albuquerque. Dammit Jake.
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When in doubt, blame a man.

I always type villify for vilify, which bugs me since villain has two. What gets me most is trinitrotoluene, so I usually just abbreviate it. :biggrin:
 
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Administrator - shows up as "*************" when I log in to the program. Usually takes at least 4 tries to get it right.

Dilemma - up until a couple years ago, I would have bet my life it was spelled "dilemna"....no clue why I thought that, but "dilemma" will always look wrong to me.

look gives me fits, too --> llok
 
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Spelling "desiccate" has always been a bit problematic for me. Not nearly so much as it is for everyone else, though, since NOBODY gets it right.

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.
 
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MaxBuck;1705370; said:
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 [censored]ing huge." It means something else entirely, pinhead. So quit using it wrong.
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Looks like comprise is one of those words that has been misused so much it's starting to become accepted.

OxfordEnglishDictionary

However, a passive use of comprise is becoming part of standard English: this use (as in the country is comprised of twenty states) is more or less synonymous with the traditional active sense (as in the country comprises twenty states).
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As for enormity, you may consider it atrocious to find this third definition:

Dictionary.com

3. greatness of size, scope, extent, or influence; immensity: The enormity of such an act of generosity is staggering.
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I know I feel the same way about the improper use of criteria as a singular noun becoming accepted. :wink2:
 
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Never make such mistakes in speech myself, because I'm, oh, what's the word?

Oh yeah, articulate.

That said,

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

As for typing, what with spell check the only real errors are in word usage. I just don't understand why we need to distinguish among their, there, and they're. Can't we just create a new word spelled "thayer" to mean any of the three depending on context and be done with it?
 
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Oh8ch;1705419; said:
As for typing, what with spell check the only real errors are in word usage. I just don't understand why we need to distinguish among their, there, and they're. Can't we just create a new word spelled "thayer" to mean any of the three depending on context and be done with it?
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I tu vote tu do that for thayer and another word, making tu combined cases.
 
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