Thanks V for starting this thread - but I think it needs a bump out of obscurity again. My eyes have started seeing posts again where women must be selling their bikes...
- peddling = selling
- pedaling = riding
I don't know about you, but I pedal my bike; it's definitely not for sale!
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11-07-2006, 07:32 AM #1
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Time for a reminder - we pedal our bikes!
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11-07-2006, 07:37 AM #2
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My department chair just circulated this review on the book The War Against Grammar. I find it refreshing to hear that I and the other grammar grinches here are not alone in our distress over the state of grammar these days. I can't wait to read the whole book, now that I've seen the review.
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11-07-2006, 08:10 AM #3
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I thought it was funny when we (unfortunately) wound up eating at a big buffet style chain restaurant a couple of years ago, and after you got your main course on a plate, you could go over to a huge condiment bar with a big sign that read "FIXIN'S". Did the food somehow need to be "fixed" before it was edible??
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05-16-2009, 05:20 PM #4
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There really are Grammar police
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05-16-2009, 06:00 PM #5
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Methinks some of us need to straighten out the use of complimentary as found in the topic thread about personality of significant other. (See under "Cycling".)
It's..uh.."complementary". But no doubt, there will be compelling, but not totally accurate reasons for the other adjective.
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05-16-2009, 06:12 PM #6
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It's "girls just want to have fun" which is very different from "we're just girls"
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I know, I know, as the song by C. Lauper goes: "We're just GIRLS..and we wanna have FUN.
Oh nooooo, now it's on to the "lyric grinch" 
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05-18-2009, 10:53 AM #7
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How about "mis-cheev-ius" as a pronunciation for mischievous? I abhor that. I even heard Ann Curry say it incorrectly doing the news on the Today Show a few months back.
And there's a local commercial for a restaurant in Tri Cities, WA, that has a versa-tile menu.......yikes! What do they serve???
I like "fixing to." I grew up in the Deep South and didn't realize that everybody else in the US didn't say that until I moved out to the Pacific Northwest.Tis better to wear out than to rust out....
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