We are a funny bunch, but spelling is not our forte.  I've seen a car advertised as having "duel" exhaust.  That must have been an interesting setup!

I also saw a truck advertised as being a "disil".  Not only spelled incorrectly, but no respect for the genius its named for: Rudolph Diesel. 
 

6sally6 wrote:

That AIN'T how ya spell YOGURT !!!
6S6

It appears (from the phone number) that the photo is taken in the UK, where "yogurt" is spelled "yoghurt".  Sorry - didn't mean to take the fun out of it or disparage anyone ...

Greg B wrote:

Duel exhaust is very challenging.
 

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As a teenager who was just honing his smartarse skills, when I would come across an ad in the classifieds that read "Wanted to buy..." I would call them and axe them why they no longer wanted to buy the item. Their past tense use of wanted had to be explained to every one I called. I suppose I've always been a wise a$$.

The all time bit on this issue is Gallager's - he uses a 4 letter flip chart to show the ridiculousness of the English language 

Bomb
Tomb
Comb
Poem
Hoem? No...
Home
Some
Nome? No...
Numb Really? Some rhymes with Numb? 
Dumb. All of this is really dumb. 

Then there's the old "I" before "e" except when sounding like "a" as in sleigh and in weigh. 
RPM's favorite coffee mug. 


 

When did “impordant” become a word?
Recently I’ve noticed that commentators and news personalities can’t pronounce  the word “important” properly”
Must be Ebonics infiltrating our pronunciation of every day communication, or maybe it’s just my bad hearing.

Greg B wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

We are a funny bunch, but spelling is not our forte.  I've seen a car advertised as having "duel" exhaust.  That must have been an interesting setup!

I also saw a truck advertised as being a "disil".  Not only spelled incorrectly, but no respect for the genius its named for: Rudolph Diesel. 
 

Duel exhaust is very challenging.
 

I guess two vehicles pace off like 20 tire rotations from each other, then turn and rev.  The winner is determined by volume?  Or is it sound quality?  It should be sound quality. 
 

If I could ever just get this group to not lose their mind every time something comes loose…

Something that came loose might have gotten lost, but it had to lose its torque setting before it got loose.

One of my all time flavorites.....'The newspaper (remember those?!) reported a lady was shot with a 38 cal. pistol. She was rushed to the hospital and reports are the bullet was still in her yet.'
Where is the yet and do only women have them
6s6

TKOPerformance wrote:

They constantly use the word "impacted" incorrectly as well.  Impacted is NOT the past tense of the verb impact.  It is an adjective describing a condition, i.e an impacted tooth.  Made impact on/upon or had an impact on/upon is the correct past tense way to use the verb impact.  I hear journalists and other people who should know better make this mistake so often I'm surprised when they get it right. 

You need to "educate" these two dictionaries:
https://pasttenses.com/impact-past-tense

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/conjugation/english/impact
 

Rufus68 wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

They constantly use the word "impacted" incorrectly as well.  Impacted is NOT the past tense of the verb impact.  It is an adjective describing a condition, i.e an impacted tooth.  Made impact on/upon or had an impact on/upon is the correct past tense way to use the verb impact.  I hear journalists and other people who should know better make this mistake so often I'm surprised when they get it right. 

You need to "educate" these two dictionaries:
https://pasttenses.com/impact-past-tense

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/conjugation/english/impact
 

 
Ya, imo just because people start using the wrong word in their speaking, dictionaries should not change the definition. The definition of drought has recently been changed to fit a particular political view. As often as people use the word ground instead of floor, has me thinking we'll all be walking on the ground inside or homes.

Rufus68 wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

They constantly use the word "impacted" incorrectly as well.  Impacted is NOT the past tense of the verb impact.  It is an adjective describing a condition, i.e an impacted tooth.  Made impact on/upon or had an impact on/upon is the correct past tense way to use the verb impact.  I hear journalists and other people who should know better make this mistake so often I'm surprised when they get it right. 

You need to "educate" these two dictionaries:
https://pasttenses.com/impact-past-tense

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/conjugation/english/impact
 

Words often become considered real or correct because people simply misuse them long enough.  You will also find the fake word "irregardless" in some dictionaries, despite the fact that it is a contradiction in terms as it contains both the prefix "ir", meaning without, and the suffix "less" also meaning without, in effect creating a double negative within a word.  Were it a real word it would mean "without, without regard", which would mean with regard. 

My grandmother, who had an English degree from William and Mary, used to correct us all the time in regards to the usage of impacted.  Now, fair enough, she was in college in the late '30s-earlt '40s, but the issue as I understand it is that "impact" originated as the Latin verb "impactus", which is already a past tense verse of "impingere", both meaning "to press against".  The use of impact as a verb in English is hundreds of years old.  Uses of the word "impact" and "impacted" as other parts of speech came about much more recently.  But hey, this is how language develops, and English is unique because it uses loan words from dozens of other languages, at times getting the meaning wrong. 

MS wrote:

If I could ever just get this group to not lose their mind every time something comes loose…

Something that came loose might have gotten lost, but it had to lose its torque setting before it got loose.

Its impordant to me that when I axed you if you would rather be here then there so that we didn't loose our spot in line. A mind is a terrible thing to loose.