Spelling that makes you cringe

[T42]

English must maintain its lead in having more irregular verbs than regular.

[red marley]

Led.

Rhymes with red, fed, bed, shed. 25% easier to type than lead. Why's it so hard?

Because it also rhymes with 'Read'.

And because it also rhymes with lead.

[hellymedic]

I still get annoyed when people get woman and women wrong.
One man/woman, two men/women...

[T42]

I get pissed off at people who spell woman L-A-D-Y.

[Mr Larrington]

I get pissed off at people who spell woman L-A-D-Y.

Ah, but when I do it, it's stylish.
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[T42]

Not to say that it doesn't have its place: it certainly does. But those who speak of men and ladies are in need of a suppository.

[Mr Larrington]

What about Gentlemen

[Andrij]

Ladies and Gentlemen

or

Men and women.

Choose one phrase or the other; one does not mix-n-match the elements.

[T42]

Exactly.

Incidentally, the FFCT in its infinite constipation refers to men as hommes and women as feminines.

[Guy]

I do wish the numpties who knock-up our media round-up emails would pay attention to what they're doing

...Special report from Harrowgate Army Foundation College...

Twinned with Great Dunlawnmower?

[Mr Larrington]

I do wish the numpties who knock-up our media round-up emails would pay attention to what they're doing

...Special report from Harrowgate Army Foundation College...

Twinned with Great Dunlawnmower?

Guy made me done a roffle

[Cudzoziemiec]

Lead is heavy but led makes light.

[Mr Larrington]

Lead is heavy but led makes light.

Unless it's a zeppelin.

[hellymedic]

[ElyDave]

Finlandiaely is Ely Dave's northern cousin. 

I've been referred to in a non-bike related thread.  Somehow I feel I've arrived.

And yes, they're just over the border from Norfolk, to the right of the yellowbellies and a bit further up.

[T42]

Hence the atonal shofar.**

In later years I occasionally have trouble with double letters, since English doubles some that French doesn't and probably v.v.  Similarly, whereas some English words use the -ible suffix, French uses -able consistently; I tend to forget which English words do what.


** "he didn't never blow no sofa". Thank-you Mr. C.

[Mr Larrington]

At least they didn't call it "Yom Kipper", which I bet many a spillchucker-user has fallen victim to.

[hellymedic]

The Shofar isn't really atonal, mainly being blown in the fundamental and a perfect fifth up on this. (The resonance was enough to bring down the walls of Jericho...)
It is only blown on Yom Kippur's termination, to announce the end of the Fast.

It is blown 100 times on both days of the New Year so this greeting is basically almost as wrong as depicting the Last Supper on a Christmas card.

[T42]

In later years I occasionally have trouble with double letters, since English doubles some that French doesn't and probably v.v.  Similarly, whereas some English words use the -ible suffix, French uses -able consistently; I tend to forget which English words do what.

Duh. I was forgetting such French words as horrible, terrible etc.

[Tim Hall]

At least they didn't call it "Yom Kipper", which I bet many a spillchucker-user has fallen victim to.

Wasn't the Yom Kipper War a result of Iceland trying to extend its fishing limits?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Aren't you thinking of the "Yum, kipper!" Iceland advert?

[JonBuoy]

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[Kim]

There seems to be an outbreak of people misusing 'programme' for computer contexts recently.  This bugs me more than it should, as it's a semi-legitimate BRITISH spelling, and innocent tech journalists may have their hands tied by some ignorant style guide.

But in my brain 'program' and 'programme' are different words, and encountering the latter used as a verb in particular seems to cause me to have to change gear and re-read the sentence with the correct interpretation.  It's not like getting 'disc'^[1] and 'disk'^[2] mixed up, where it still makes grammatical sense, or when Americans use their spelling for everything because they don't have a distinction.


_{[1] BRITISH for "flat round thing"
[2] A magnetic storage medium}

[Cudzoziemiec]

I wonder if this is the Pondian distinction becoming more important than the distinction of meaning? When program was introduced, we (right-ponders) adopted the left-ponders' spelling to distinguish the new meaning. Now the once new meaning is well known there's less need to adopt a special spelling to say, "Look! This is a new word! It does not mean what you think it means!" Similarly with disc and disk, the meaning is usually clear from context. And isn't "disc" the standard spelling for the storage medium? Certainly the official "Compact disc" logo spells it with a c.

Edit: You say "magnetic storage medium", so you'd have a floppy disk but a compact disc. I think noting that level of distinction goes beyond spelling into jargon.

[Legs]

In later years I occasionally have trouble with double letters, since English doubles some that French doesn't and probably v.v.  Similarly, whereas some English words use the -ible suffix, French uses -able consistently; I tend to forget which English words do what.

Was this deliberate?