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Petal - part of a flower
Peddle - to sell or trade something
Pedal - noun: the part of your bike that your foot rests on
verb: the act of turning the crank.
GG
PS You may peddle your petals while you pedal if you have a flower cart attached to your bike.
You can peddle a set of pedals and decorate them with petals to try to get a better price.
If your pedals sink in a puddle you can always paddle.
You forgot:
pedal -- (verb) -- the act of propelling a bicycle with your feet
petal -- (verb) -- the act of covering an object in flowers
paddle -- (noun) -- the thing you use to paddle (verb) a canoe
I'll just name the topic and you guys can provide the definitions:
ride
rode
road
Have at it.:D
Ride and rode are the same as verbs, as rode is the past tense of ride.
Road of course is something to be ridden on, unless you prefer to ride off road.
V.
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Originally Posted by Veronica
There's also
Pettle
–verb (used with object), -tled, -tling. Scot. and North England to fondle; pet.
So you may pettle the petals you're peddling as you pedal your little flower cart, too!
Ooh! A new word. I like that Kitsune. Pettle -- I'm going to pettle the pedaling peddler!!!
Pettle, pettle, pettle!!!
You don't have to be a Rhodes Scholar to get this one!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
Hey, SK, back to the original topic -- Can't Izaak the Wonder Poodle be included in the first grouping?
Funny - this has been bothering me for a long time. I almost posted something here, but I was afraid that I couldn't say it nicely, so I posted it in my blog instead - http://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com/2...rds-words.html.
Veronica -
Thanks so much for finding a nice (and funny) way to point out this error in grammar!
--- Denise
Pedal is a noun too!
at least on my bike, there are two Pedals!
Yeah, that was in the original post.Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Pettle, pettle, pettle!!!
Or live in Rhode Island.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Adventure Girl
As in the Wonder Poodle peddles for pettles? Let's not talk about what he does with petals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adventure Girl
Can I pettle something other than petals while peddling? I'm not even thinking about a bike/bike parts at this point................. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
... only if you're on a tandem. :eek: :p
Not true, Kitsune!!! I can pettle pedallers next to me -- that's one of the main reasons we need to learn to ride with only one hand on the bar. Now I'm all paranoid that I spelled pedallers wrong. Oh bugger!
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Originally Posted by SadieKate
Hmmm, Does The Wonder Poodle piddle in puddles while pondering petals while peddling for pettles??
:D :p
Leaf me alone-I no had koffee yet
While reading a book (a very good one), I found out that Kitsune means "fox" in Japanese! :D The characters that form the word can also be interpreted as "come and sleep."
So, Kitsune, does this mean you are a foxy lady? :cool:
(By the way, the book was "Plum Wine" by Angela Davis-Gardner.)
...sorry for the interuption... back to your regularly scheduled program!
(still hijacked)
Don't worry, it's early. I'm chasing your post around the board, replied @ the 'consider this' thread, only to discover you *moved it*! Have some more coffee. Kitsune means 'fox' but also relates to fox spirits, who would manifest themselves as (yup) beautiful young women (among few others). And yup, some etymologies have it that "kitsu-ne" means "come and sleep" and "ki-tsune" which means "always comes". The Japanese view of Kitsune as yokai has fit me decently for quite awhile...
Some days I have a harder time hiding my tail than others! :D
That's what belts and suspenders are for.
Sheesh, you young kids and your baggy pants....
<back on track>
I'm a Grammar Grinch too. Which is pretty officious of me, considering I hardly speak English any more.
The one I really hate is "loser". Spelt "looser". Arg!
Funny thing, it bugs me less when English speakers misspell it (hey, they just can't spell) than when Norwegians, trying to be kreatif and unusual, misspell it. It's not cool to use a phrase in a foreign language if you can't SPELL it!
I view spelling and grammar as creative endevours. Sometimes breaking the rules gets yer point across better than following them. (which is why I sucked as a proofreader, but I am a good editor)
What sticks in my craw are the trendy phrases that get flung around with reckless abandon. Like "looking to". That one gets up my nose. Can't think of any others at the moment.
And from another grinch:
break
brake
He lead them to victory.
Auggh! I HATE that. Used to have a boss who spelled it that way and no amount of correction would stick.
Rosie
http://www.electrabike.com/04/bikes/...6_fas_07.html#
Daisy
http://www.electrabike.com/04/bikes/...06_fas_06.html
"Petal Power" -Aren't these Cute?
I LOOOOOVE Daisy! I know what I want when DH starts making plumber money!! :D
Namaste,
~T~
I visited c.i.c.l.e. a couple weeks ago and they have assorted news articles on their site, and one had "peddling" in the headline... so I borrowed a name (I don't know why... ) and simply commented "pedal! pedal! your spelling teacher is weeping! :) .
The thread had a couple other comments (the first taking me to task for being too critical!) but before long somebody from cicle posts taht hey, they could use some help editing... does Cassie want to volunteer? (In the meantime I'd posted another correction, though I started with "nice article.")
So I guess I"ll email 'em and volunteer as myself ... BE YOURSELF always :) :) :)
... I get my Gazelle tonight, I get my Gazelle tonight...
What is up with the double/'tripple' debates? TRIPPLE??? Where does that come from????
A tad too much tippling?
Their
There
They're
Some of my students cannot seem to get this straight, even when they're sure that their brains are there--though I'm not so sure!
my stepmom has a bulletin board that she puts up with a bunch of these. she makes the kids define each word and make sure its spelled correctly. i still get them confused sometimes. spelling and grammar aren't my strong points as you all know.
i read the red book.
"Tripple" comes from the fact that almost all "consonant-l-e" words with a short vowel sound in the first syllable have two consonants before the l-e, so that the first syllable is a "closed" (short sound) syllable, and the second syllable is a consonant and l and e. THe person spelling triple with two p's has an astute intuition for spelling but hasn't learned the exceptions. SInce spelling is scarcely taught thoroughly anymore (or else you, too, would know why this word was tricky :D ) it's no surprise that people would make this mistake.
Consider: supple (though I have a friend who pronounces that souple!), grapple, pimple, and in the long-vowel world noble, able, and bugle. (Long vowel sound c-l-e words are much less common, too.)
And people say you never use this knowledge!! :D :D
If you have pierced nipples with barbells, the ball ends on each side end up looking like a triple nipple.
Just sayin'. :cool:
this is true... or it just looks like one big nipple if you wear the right shirt. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dianyla
(kit i think we should stay out of this one.)
A bipple? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
Forgive Me :p :p
Owed Two A Spell Chequer
Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect Awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew.
Love this thread - you girls are a hoot!
It's
Its
Why do even lawyers get these ones mixed up?
Hugs and butterflies,
~T~
Ladies, ladies. Tripple is a BEER! Belgain, nonetheless. And I quote:
A trappiste brewery is characterized by the beer being brewed in the abbey by a member of the monastic order. Most trappiste breweries create a "dubble", "tripple" and a "small" beer for daily consumption by the monks.
(From this website.)
My contribution to the grammar grouchiness (I stole this from another forum):
"You definitely don't want to spell it 'definately'. And if you lose weight, your clothes are too loose."
funny, if I'd started this I could have said Grumpy Grammar Gramma Grinch Grouses or Grumpy Gramma Grammar Grinch Grouses :p
Mary, you are awesome. Between this and your "owed"...thanks for the chuckle!Quote:
Originally Posted by mary9761