Author Topic: Spelling that makes you cringe  (Read 169894 times)

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #825 on: 22 January, 2020, 09:46:26 am »
How do you feel about Roman architecture?

Birmingham needs more of it.
The delights of Brumcaster aside, when we look at Roman buildings of concrete, we tend not to think how they've fared badly with 2000 years of weathering. Even early-industrial buildings of concrete, where they've survived, aren't thought of as weathered, and in many cases we have photographs or paintings of their original state for comparison. Okay, different sorts of concrete, but I think saying concrete bad, bricks good, is a bit like Prince Charles carbunclism.

Quote
And wooden buildings?

Those tend to be self-limiting in the absence of maintenance.  Also, three little pigs.
[/quote]
We don't really have many wooden buildings (as distinct from wooden frames) in Britain, so hard to say, I guess. Their limiting factors from what I've seen are fashion even more than maintenance.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #826 on: 25 January, 2020, 11:00:06 am »
Label on office stationary shelf: Whole punches

Kim

  • Timelord
    • Fediverse
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #827 on: 25 January, 2020, 11:21:57 am »
Label on office stationary shelf: Whole punches

Well you wouldn't want one that only punches half a hole.

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #828 on: 25 January, 2020, 03:46:45 pm »
The shelf that stands still.

I presume it holds complete implements and paper, etc...

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #829 on: 25 January, 2020, 04:53:45 pm »
The shelf that stands still.

I presume it holds complete implements and paper, etc...

Funnily enough, that was the origin of the word: in ancient Rome, stationarii were traders did not move around.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #830 on: 26 January, 2020, 10:34:46 am »
.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #831 on: 26 January, 2020, 06:11:46 pm »
Ooh  :facepalm:
But I note from the web address that it is listed as a "Travel Essential". I'm wondering what sort of travel might include the essential use of a plastic cape with a Welsh flag on it.

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #832 on: 26 January, 2020, 06:24:36 pm »
Now there's a thing. The Royal Welch Fusiliers spell it like that. Perhaps it's a travel essential for when they're on manouevres.
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Mr Larrington

  • A bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
  • Custard Wallah
    • Mr Larrington's Automatic Diary
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #833 on: 27 January, 2020, 03:38:47 am »
Got this strange in-game shitvert yesterday from somewhere calling itself "Golden Palms".  Dunno where it is as the voiceover was in a language I don't speak.  But they spelled it "Golden Plams" in two different places :facepalm:
External Transparent Wall Inspection Operative & Mayor of Mortagne-au-Perche
Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #834 on: 27 January, 2020, 07:51:11 am »
Now there's a thing. The Royal Welch Fusiliers spell it like that. Perhaps it's a travel essential for when they're on manoeuvres.

That's the archaic spelling. Comes from an OE word meaning foreign.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #835 on: 27 January, 2020, 08:54:26 am »
Now there's a thing. The Royal Welch Fusiliers spell it like that. Perhaps it's a travel essential for when they're on manoeuvres.

That's the archaic spelling. Comes from an OE word meaning foreign.
Interesting, thanks. What's the link between that a bookie that legs it with your winnings I wonder?  Is it the traditional "Those people aren't us therefore they're bad"? (goes off to do web based research)
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #836 on: 27 January, 2020, 10:17:55 am »
Now there's a thing. The Royal Welch Fusiliers spell it like that. Perhaps it's a travel essential for when they're on manoeuvres.

That's the archaic spelling. Comes from an OE word meaning foreign.
Interesting, thanks. What's the link between that a bookie that legs it with your winnings I wonder?  Is it the traditional "Those people aren't us therefore they're bad"? (goes off to do web based research)

Standard extension of xenophobia.  Mind you, pinching each others' livestock was probably common on both sides of every border.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Tim Hall

  • Victoria is my queen
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #837 on: 27 January, 2020, 10:44:51 am »
Now there's a thing. The Royal Welch Fusiliers spell it like that. Perhaps it's a travel essential for when they're on manoeuvres.

That's the archaic spelling. Comes from an OE word meaning foreign.
Interesting, thanks. What's the link between that a bookie that legs it with your winnings I wonder?  Is it the traditional "Those people aren't us therefore they're bad"? (goes off to do web based research)

Standard extension of xenophobia.  Mind you, pinching each others' livestock was probably common on both sides of every border.
Taffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef.
There are two ways you can get exercise out of a bicycle: you can
"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Mr Larrington

  • A bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
  • Custard Wallah
    • Mr Larrington's Automatic Diary
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #838 on: 27 January, 2020, 12:07:47 pm »
Giraldus Cambrensis had plenty to say on the Habits of the Welch.  Little of it complimentary.
External Transparent Wall Inspection Operative & Mayor of Mortagne-au-Perche
Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime

Pingu

  • Put away those fiery biscuits!
  • Mrs Pingu's domestique
    • the Igloo
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #839 on: 31 January, 2020, 08:26:06 pm »
In a traffic jam some years ago, nikki and I came up with The Brick Theory™:  That if you molish buildings from bricks (including stone), they still look pretty good even after many years (indeed, centuries) of neglect, but all other materials (especially concrete and plastics) tend to look awful after a decade or two of non-maintenance.  It's not that brick is immune to weathering, so much that it still looks aesthetically pleasing as it does so.

I'm reserving judgement on clip-on brick cladding, but my gut feeling is that it'll continue to look decent for quite some time, before whole chunks of it fall off onto unsuspecting passers-by.

Granite.

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #840 on: 06 February, 2020, 03:35:11 pm »
The American wine industry is out of touch with millennial consumers, who are turning to "Kraft beer".
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #841 on: 06 February, 2020, 04:11:30 pm »
Comes in handy slices?
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #842 on: 06 February, 2020, 05:06:02 pm »
Brown paper packaging, tied up with string..

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #843 on: 06 February, 2020, 05:48:19 pm »
Brown paper packaging, tied up with string..
Nice! But it was capitalised so T42 is closer. I think any beer actually made by Kraft would probably be less worth drinking than if it were brewed from brown paper and string though.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #844 on: 08 February, 2020, 02:50:30 pm »
Facebook is trying to entice me to an evening of food and music with a 'flutist' and harpist.

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #845 on: 08 February, 2020, 02:53:08 pm »
I think that is the standard spelling in America and not totally incorrect here.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #846 on: 24 February, 2020, 10:29:50 am »
This one is that bad, you wonder if it was done for humour. For a minutes, anyway.

https://trashnothing.com/beta/post/29971577/a-cabinet-and-a-brown-chesterdraws-e7

Davef

Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #847 on: 24 February, 2020, 09:53:56 pm »
I think that is the standard spelling in America and not totally incorrect here.

As a flautist I beg to differ with the bit in bold text.
It was flutist until the victorians changed the spelling.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Basil

  • Um....err......oh bugger!
  • Help me!
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #848 on: 24 February, 2020, 09:57:27 pm »
As a flatulist, I'm confused.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Spelling that makes you cringe
« Reply #849 on: 25 February, 2020, 08:38:03 pm »
Some fun ones today:
A piece of paper worth a certain sum of money when paid into a bank was a check, which I could almost forgive, seeing as the writer was Usanian* – but only almost, as they'd been specifically instructed to use UK spellings – if it hadn't been a cheque in the previous sentence.
Goods being delivered might or might not arrive "in tact".
But best of all, trucks leaving a warehouse might pass over a way bridge. I was rather disappointed to find the document listing their goods was not, however, a weigh bill.

* One of the trucks suffered a burst tire.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.