Grumpy Grammar Grinch Grouses...

**chickwhorips** · 10-25-2006, 03:08 PM

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.

**Geonz** · 10-25-2006, 03:14 PM

"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.)
And people say you never use this knowledge!!

**Dianyla** · 10-25-2006, 03:35 PM

If you have pierced nipples with barbells, the ball ends on each side end up looking like a triple nipple.

Just sayin'.

**chickwhorips** · 10-25-2006, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Dianyla

If you have pierced nipples with barbells, the ball ends on each side end up looking like a triple nipple.

this is true... or it just looks like one big nipple if you wear the right shirt.

(kit i think we should stay out of this one.)

**Dianyla** · 10-25-2006, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by chickwhorips

this is true... or it just looks like one big nipple if you wear the right shirt.

(kit i think we should stay out of this one.)

A bipple?

**mary9761** · 10-25-2006, 06:06 PM

Forgive Me

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.

**LBTC** · 10-25-2006, 06:29 PM

Love this thread - you girls are a hoot!

It's
Its

Why do even lawyers get these ones mixed up?

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

**yellow** · 10-25-2006, 07:18 PM

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."

**mary9761** · 10-25-2006, 07:37 PM

funny, if I'd started this I could have said Grumpy Grammar Gramma Grinch Grouses or Grumpy Gramma Grammar Grinch Grouses

**yellow** · 10-25-2006, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by mary9761

funny, if I'd started this I could have said Grumpy Grammar Gramma Grinch Grouses or Grumpy Gramma Grammar Grinch Grouses

Mary, you are awesome. Between this and your "owed"...thanks for the chuckle!

**CyclChyk** · 10-25-2006, 08:04 PM

Sort of OT but kind of not.......
My most annoying written word is "YOUR" when referring to "YOU ARE"..... I mean really, is YOU'RE so hard to comprehend?

Most hated spoken mis-words are numerous but top two:
"accrost" instead of accross. Since when was a T added to this word??
"ain't" instead of aren't. 'Nuff said.

**LBTC** · 10-25-2006, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by CyclChyk

Sort of OT but kind of not.......
My most annoying written word is "YOUR" when referring to "YOU ARE"..... I mean really, is YOU'RE so hard to comprehend?

Most hated spoken mis-words are numerous but top two:
"accrost" instead of accross. Since when was a T added to this word??
"ain't" instead of aren't. 'Nuff said.

Egad!

Those are some of the worst! Although in a post or an email I might use a silly variation like ain't just for effect....it's not part of my spoken lexicon.

I wish I had something funny to say, like the rest of you! heehee

You rock!
~T~

**mary9761** · 10-26-2006, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by yellow

Mary, you are awesome. Between this and your "owed"...thanks for the chuckle!

I'm glad I brought a smile! BTW, I can't take credit for writing the OWED bit, I found it some time ago on the net and just had to keep it.

**Bad JuJu** · 10-26-2006, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by mary9761

I'm glad I brought a smile! BTW, I can't take credit for writing the OWED bit, I found it some time ago on the net and just had to keep it.

Awww, I thought you were a blossoming poet.

And here's another grammar matter that bugs me:
What's with writing the plural of words like "ghosts" and "priests" with no -s at the end? I've noticed this that last two or three semesters and it makes me tear my hair out (which is not to say "tare my hare out"

).

**SadieKate** · 10-26-2006, 09:22 AM

Oh, you mean more than one priest or ghost is "priest's" and "ghost's"?

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