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Offline Steve

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« Reply #105 on: July 24, 2003, 04:11:34 PM »
Lol, Nash.
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« Reply #106 on: July 24, 2003, 04:17:01 PM »
shcrewl

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« Reply #107 on: July 24, 2003, 04:20:24 PM »
affect - to have an effect upon.
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« Reply #108 on: July 24, 2003, 04:21:27 PM »
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Merriam-Webster = American?  Hmmm...

Oxford ENGLISH dictionary gives plural as cannon, not cannons. In fact it makes special mention of that.


Sorry, I would have looked in my OED, but the veneer of pseudo-intellectualism it provides to my bookshelf is just too powerful for me to ever actually unshelve it!  

The judge I used to work for had the complete 20-volume set from the turn of the (last) century.  Whenever I or one of my co-clerks (or even the judge) would resort to citing the OED in support of an argument, we knew that he was desperate!

- JNOV (= American)
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« Reply #109 on: July 24, 2003, 05:28:50 PM »
Lonestar - maybe, but I'm pretty sure the Chambers English Dictionary would say the same thing.
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« Reply #110 on: July 24, 2003, 05:45:43 PM »
Beet1e:

I'm just giving you a hard time.  I've worked with enough Brits (and Aussies and New Zealanders) to appreciate the differences in our "common" tongue.  What's more, I'm sure that "cannons" is one the myriad mongrelizations that have come to acceptance (at least in the States) due to incessant misuse.  My judge used to say that he preferred the OED to contemporary "American dictionaries" because the OED is a "prescriptive"--not a "descriptive"--dictionary.

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« Reply #111 on: July 25, 2003, 07:23:01 AM »
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Only thing I hate more is ... people who can't use apostrophe's correctly.


Run apostrophes by your Merriam Webster, and check out http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/apo.htm. :)
« Last Edit: July 25, 2003, 08:54:56 AM by tomato »
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« Reply #112 on: July 25, 2003, 07:28:32 AM »
Tomato there is a trailing "." at the end of your link that make it fail ...

en bref : sans le point ça marchera mieux ;)
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« Reply #113 on: July 25, 2003, 08:30:33 AM »
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en bref : sans le point ça marchera mieux ;)

Le point marche mieux. Merci Straffo.
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« Reply #114 on: July 25, 2003, 08:45:07 AM »
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When will these handsomehunkes realise that the plural of cannon is the same word - cannon. There is no such word as "cannons".

Well there should be.  Blimey, there is ;)  http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cannon
« Last Edit: July 25, 2003, 08:52:06 AM by tomato »
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« Reply #115 on: July 25, 2003, 10:44:12 AM »
Naah, just another American bastardisation - ooops - bastardization.
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« Reply #116 on: July 25, 2003, 12:08:13 PM »
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Naah, just another American bastardisation - ooops - bastardization.

'Cannon' was a British bastardisation of the Italian cannone. ;)
« Last Edit: July 25, 2003, 12:11:01 PM by tomato »
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« Reply #117 on: July 25, 2003, 12:22:52 PM »
Well that reminds me - a certain vice president could not spell "potato" - spelled it potatoe. By the same token, said VP might spell tomato as tomatoe. ;)
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« Reply #118 on: July 25, 2003, 12:32:58 PM »
My name!!! Half the folks on Earth can't spell it right! I've seen....

Flackbait
Falkbait
Falckbait
Faclkbiat

The first two being the most common.  Though one enterprising soul did once call me "Baron Kober von Flak".

Another peave is when people substitute one word of a similar spelling for another. Such as "coarse" and "course" to name one example. Naturally, half the 9 year-olds in this sector of the universe could've gotten that one right. Then there's the snotstains who insist on breaking up a sentence,,,,,,,,,,,,,with long,,,,,,,,,,breaks,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,of commas,,,,,,,,,,,,and nary,,,,,,,,,,,,,a single,,,,,,,exampleofpropergrammar.


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« Reply #119 on: July 25, 2003, 01:35:11 PM »
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... half the 9 year-olds in this sector of the universe could've gotten that one right


Only half?  Sad, innit?  At one time, the BBC could be relied upon to be the upholder of 'given' English.  But it is no longer the paragon of the upholders of standards that it was - there is now no definitive standard ... or is there?

I'm with you regarding the ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,s
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