What is up with the double/'tripple' debates? TRIPPLE??? Where does that come from????
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10-25-2006, 01:32 PM #1
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10-25-2006, 01:44 PM #2
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A tad too much tippling?
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10-25-2006, 01:57 PM #3
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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!Bad JuJu: Team TE Bianchista
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10-25-2006, 03:08 PM #4
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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.
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10-25-2006, 03:14 PM #5
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"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
) 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.)
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10-25-2006, 03:35 PM #6
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If you have pierced nipples with barbells, the ball ends on each side end up looking like a triple nipple.
Just sayin'.
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10-25-2006, 03:43 PM #7
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this is true... or it just looks like one big nipple if you wear the right shirt.
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(kit i think we should stay out of this one.)"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." – William C. Durant
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