OT: or not; Favorite Misspellings

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:53:48 -0500, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 1/17/2012 10:36 AM, Steve Turner wrote:
>> On 1/17/2012 8:51 AM, Mike wrote:
>>> On 1/16/2012 3:57 PM, Just Wondering wrote:
>>>> On 1/16/2012 1:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>>>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>>>>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>>>>> in with your favorites as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>>>
>>>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>>>
>>>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>>>>> plans.
>>>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>>>
>Sad ,indeed. You should have seen some of the job applications I
>reviewed. I lost count of how many went in the trash because they were
>so poorly written they didn't make sense. All were written by college
>graduates.

I second that. It seems the current job-seeking generation can not
distinguish between "then" and "than", allthough that may be a
spell-check issue. In which case they don't proof read.

What amazes me more is the number of occurrences of errors on news
websites. The San Francisco Chronicle was noteworthy for the number
in the hardcopy issue back in the 1980's, but the numbers of ommitted
words, doubled words, and other errors. Today, it's hard to read one
article online without 2-3 errors.

-Zz

On 1/17/2012 9:02 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:01:37 -0500, Ed Pawlowski<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> "WW" wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
>>>> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by
>>>> hammering.
>>>> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
>>>> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.
>>
>> Happens alot so it is a mute point.
>
> However moot, pounding with a hammer is never mute, suh.
>
> --
> I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
> --Duke Ellington

Define hardly.


I hate it when you hardly hit some one and they cry.

He hit the ball hardly with the bat.


http://www.kirkmahoney.com/blog/2008/10/he-hit-the-ball-hardly-vs-he-hardly-hit-the-ball/

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:54:53 -0800 (PST), Luigi Zanasi
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Jan 16, 12:43 pm, Jim Weisgram <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>> in with your favorites as well.
>>
>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>
>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>
>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>> plans.
>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>
>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>
>from the anti-faq:
>BTW the correct spelling accepted in rec.woodworking for some words
>are: joiner, planner, scrapper, rabbit, tennon (tendon is definitely
>wrong), hobbiest, course (not fine), bisket, popular (Liriodendron
>tulipifera), cyprus (Taxodium distichum), tounge & grove (tongue is a
>finishing oil), radio alarm saw (tmLJ).

<giggle>

--
The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which
it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.
-- Glenn Doman

Ed Pawlowski wrote:

>
> Read some of the letters written by soldiers during the civil war.
> Accurate may not be the right word, but they are a much better read
> and more descriptive and elegant than typical writing today.
>

I have seen (or heard) excerpts from some of those writings and I'll give
you that the language was much more elegant in some of them than what is
common today. I'm not sure it was a widespread skill since there was so
much iliteracy back then, and so many people (especially men) did not know
how to read/write.


> Language is fluid, but youth, especially, has fallen into slovenly
> ways using texting type abbreviations in other correspondence.
>

No contest.



--

-Mike-
[email protected]

On 1/16/2012 3:57 PM, Just Wondering wrote:
> On 1/16/2012 1:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>> in with your favorites as well.
>>
>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>
>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>
>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>> plans.
>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>
>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>
> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by hammering.
> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.

Advice is something you give or get.
Advise is something you do.

Anal could also be someone that is overly concerned with someone's over
concern about other people's misspellings. Just saying...

On Jan 18, 4:59=A0am, Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote:
> On 1/17/2012 9:27 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:31:41 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
> > <[email protected]> =A0wrote:
>
> >> Steve Turner wrote:
>
> >>> And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical
> >>> equation my answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. =A0If the
> >>> answer was coming back to you in the form of a monetary payment, I
> >>> daresay you'd be a tad more concerned about how "anal" I'd been
> >>> during the computations, wouldn't you? =A0It's always bugged me how w=
e
> >>> seem to be getting less and less concerned for the correctness of our
> >>> communications as time goes by.
>
> >> Wait Steve - do you really believe there was ever any greater concern =
for
> >> the "correctness of our communications" over any period of time? =A0Di=
fferent
> >> words - sure, but any real concern for this precision? =A0Do you reall=
y
> >> believe people thought about this?
>
> >>> It hasn't always been this way. =A0It
> >>> amazes me when I read the writings of the average lowly farm boy from
> >>> the eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more than a typical rural
> >>> schoolhouse education, and how well they wrote back then compared to
> >>> the average college graduate of today. =A0Sad, really.
>
> >> Examples please. =A0I have seen and posess, many such examples and the=
y
> >> absolutely do not refelect any more accuarate, or even an intent at
> >> accuracy. =A0It's really easy to look back and simply state that thing=
s were
> >> different or better back then, but it's a lot harder to substantiate t=
hat
> >> claim.
>
> > Read some of the letters written by soldiers during the civil war.
> > Accurate may not be the right word, but they are a much better read
> > and more descriptive and elegant than typical writing today.
>
> > Language is fluid, but youth, especially, has fallen into slovenly
> > ways using texting type abbreviations in other correspondence.
>
> > =A0 I can just see legal documents of the future
>
> > yo, dis ok?
> > I give u stuff, u give me bux
>
> > k c u l8tr
>
> > I can tolerate the typo in informal notes, such as posting here, but
> > at least know the proper use and spelling of common words that we used
> > to learn in the 4th to 8th grade..
>
> You can thank texting, ebonics, and accepting every one as equally
> deserving. =A0Give some one a reward for something that they did not earn
> and they naturally don't try as hard.

It all started going downhill with that Webster guy and his so-called
"American Spelling" book: forgetting the "u" in colour and honour;
misspelling the theatre and centre; "plow" for plough; abominations
such as "soop", "mashine" and "tung" instead of soup, machine and
tongue, which luckily did not fly even in the US; which led to other
abominations such as "thru" for through and "vise" for vice (OBWW).

Luigi

On 1/16/2012 2:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
> in with your favorites as well.
>
> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
> Lose is misplacing something.
>
> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>
> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
> plans.
> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>
> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).

You loosed me on that.

On 1/16/2012 1:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
> in with your favorites as well.
>
> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
> Lose is misplacing something.
>
> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>
> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
> plans.
> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>
> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).

Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by hammering.
A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.

On 01/16/2012 06:21 PM, Nova wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:43:37 -0800, Jim Weisgram
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>> in with your favorites as well.
>>
>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>
>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>
>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>> plans.
>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>
>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>
> Cheap - inexpensive
> Cheep - a noise made by a young chicken

and the always popular there/their/they're

http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm

--
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure,the creed of ignorance, and the
gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery"
-Winston Churchill

On 1/17/2012 7:51 AM, Mike wrote:
> On 1/16/2012 3:57 PM, Just Wondering wrote:
>> On 1/16/2012 1:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>>> in with your favorites as well.
>>>
>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>
>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>
>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>>> plans.
>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>
>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>
>> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
>> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by hammering.
>> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
>> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.
>
> Advice is something you give or get.
> Advise is something you do.
>
> Anal could also be someone that is overly concerned with someone's over
> concern about other people's misspellings. Just saying...

My reason for writing was pearly shellfish -- I only posted for the halibut.

On 1/17/2012 6:48 PM, Larry W wrote:
>
> A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
> by Mark Twain
>
> For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be
> replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of
> the alphabet.
>
> The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation,
> which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so
> that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might
> well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j"
> anomali wonse and for all.
>
> Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5
> doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing
> vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
> Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant
> letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould
> doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
>
> Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl,
> kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
>
>
A more recent variation on the same theme (not my own):

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been
reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As
part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year
phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly,
sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will
be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but
typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like
fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted
to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have
always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the
horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining
"ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of
leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no
mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

[email protected] (Robert Bonomi) wrote in
news:[email protected]:

>
> Speaking of "radio alarm saws", how would one fit a saw-stop mechanism
> to -that-?

Probably the same way as the SawStop. The blade wouldn't disappear into
the table, but jamming a piece of metal into the blade would work fine.
With all the stress from the action, however, means the arm would have to
have either some way of absorbing the stress or be strong enough to not
move.

(Would this count as prior art to invalidate such a patent? *grin*)

Puckdropper
--
Make it to fit, don't make it fit.

On Jan 16, 12:43=A0pm, Jim Weisgram <[email protected]>
wrote:
> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
> in with your favorites as well.
>
> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
> Lose is misplacing something.
>
> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>
> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
> plans.
> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>
> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).

from the anti-faq:
BTW the correct spelling accepted in rec.woodworking for some words
are: joiner, planner, scrapper, rabbit, tennon (tendon is definitely
wrong), hobbiest, course (not fine), bisket, popular (Liriodendron
tulipifera), cyprus (Taxodium distichum), tounge & grove (tongue is a
finishing oil), radio alarm saw (tmLJ).

Luigi

In article <[email protected]>, m II <[email protected]> wrote:
>You can add "Buss", a company name, to that list. An electrical or
>transportation vehicle **BUS** only has a single "S".

Historical fact: the electricaal item -- a heavy-duty conductor with multiple
secondary items attached to it was traditionally spelled with 2 esses.
That usage _is_ where the company derives it's name from.

"Modern' usage has corrupted the spelling to using only a single 's'.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:43:37 -0800, Jim Weisgram
<[email protected]> wrote:

>This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>in with your favorites as well.
>
>Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>Lose is misplacing something.
>
>Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>
>Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>plans.
>Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>
>Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).

Cheap - inexpensive
Cheep - a noise made by a young chicken
--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA

OK That is enough of spelling!

What about them them Saw-stops?

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"Larry W" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

The whole spelling thing is ridiculous anyway. I know it's been posted
here
before but this seems like a good occasion to repost Mark Twain's take
on the subject. Note there is some controversy over whether
Twain/Clemens
was actually the author.

On 1/18/2012 5:40 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>>
>> Read some of the letters written by soldiers during the civil war.
>> Accurate may not be the right word, but they are a much better read
>> and more descriptive and elegant than typical writing today.
>>
>
> I have seen (or heard) excerpts from some of those writings and I'll give
> you that the language was much more elegant in some of them than what is
> common today. I'm not sure it was a widespread skill since there was so
> much iliteracy back then, and so many people (especially men) did not know
> how to read/write.
>
>
>> Language is fluid, but youth, especially, has fallen into slovenly
>> ways using texting type abbreviations in other correspondence.
>>
>
> No contest.
>
>
>

That is part if it but the lack of publicly caring goes way back. I
recall a new bank that opened in down town Houston in the early 80's.
Banc Texas. I thought to myself, if they don't care enough to spell
correctly they will never make it. They didn't.

On 1/17/2012 9:27 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:31:41 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Steve Turner wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical
>>> equation my answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. If the
>>> answer was coming back to you in the form of a monetary payment, I
>>> daresay you'd be a tad more concerned about how "anal" I'd been
>>> during the computations, wouldn't you? It's always bugged me how we
>>> seem to be getting less and less concerned for the correctness of our
>>> communications as time goes by.
>>
>> Wait Steve - do you really believe there was ever any greater concern for
>> the "correctness of our communications" over any period of time? Different
>> words - sure, but any real concern for this precision? Do you really
>> believe people thought about this?
>>
>>> It hasn't always been this way. It
>>> amazes me when I read the writings of the average lowly farm boy from
>>> the eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more than a typical rural
>>> schoolhouse education, and how well they wrote back then compared to
>>> the average college graduate of today. Sad, really.
>>
>> Examples please. I have seen and posess, many such examples and they
>> absolutely do not refelect any more accuarate, or even an intent at
>> accuracy. It's really easy to look back and simply state that things were
>> different or better back then, but it's a lot harder to substantiate that
>> claim.
>
> Read some of the letters written by soldiers during the civil war.
> Accurate may not be the right word, but they are a much better read
> and more descriptive and elegant than typical writing today.
>
> Language is fluid, but youth, especially, has fallen into slovenly
> ways using texting type abbreviations in other correspondence.
>
> I can just see legal documents of the future
>
> yo, dis ok?
> I give u stuff, u give me bux
>
> k c u l8tr
>
>
> I can tolerate the typo in informal notes, such as posting here, but
> at least know the proper use and spelling of common words that we used
> to learn in the 4th to 8th grade..

You can thank texting, ebonics, and accepting every one as equally
deserving. Give some one a reward for something that they did not earn
and they naturally don't try as hard.

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:56:29 -0600, Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet>
wrote:

>On 1/17/2012 12:29 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:54:53 -0800 (PST), Luigi Zanasi
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 16, 12:43 pm, Jim Weisgram<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>>>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>>>> in with your favorites as well.
>>>>
>>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>>
>>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>>
>>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>>>> plans.
>>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>>
>>>from the anti-faq:
>>> BTW the correct spelling accepted in rec.woodworking for some words
>>> are: joiner, planner, scrapper, rabbit, tennon (tendon is definitely
>>> wrong), hobbiest, course (not fine), bisket, popular (Liriodendron
>>> tulipifera), cyprus (Taxodium distichum), tounge& grove (tongue is a
>>> finishing oil), radio alarm saw (tmLJ).
>
>
>I thought tung was a finishing oil and tongue was something that sticks out.

Keywords are "from the anti-faq", sir.

Nexxxxxxxxxxxxxxt!

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On 1/16/2012 6:34 PM, Leon wrote:
> On 1/16/2012 2:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>> in with your favorites as well.
>>
>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>
>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>
>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>> plans.
>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>
>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>
> You loosed me on that.

Two times ...

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On 1/18/2012 7:02 AM, Leon wrote:

> I
> recall a new bank that opened in down town Houston in the early 80's.
> Banc Texas. I thought to myself, if they don't care enough to spell
> correctly they will never make it. They didn't.

Must of been a bunch of dumbasses, since that spelling is usually how
company's, who actually aren't banks, get around most state laws that
require that the word "bank" in a company name has a very specific
meaning, and, without any other qualifier/indication like "blood bank",
etc, they better indeed be a "bank".

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Get your speller checked!

When you cut in two even pieces it is "halving"

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"Steve Barker" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Having, not haveing.

Bad grammer!

BTW: How is gramper?

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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

Happens alot so it is a mute point.

On 1/17/2012 12:29 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:54:53 -0800 (PST), Luigi Zanasi
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 16, 12:43 pm, Jim Weisgram<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>>> in with your favorites as well.
>>>
>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>
>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>
>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>>> plans.
>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>
>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>
>>from the anti-faq:
>> BTW the correct spelling accepted in rec.woodworking for some words
>> are: joiner, planner, scrapper, rabbit, tennon (tendon is definitely
>> wrong), hobbiest, course (not fine), bisket, popular (Liriodendron
>> tulipifera), cyprus (Taxodium distichum), tounge& grove (tongue is a
>> finishing oil), radio alarm saw (tmLJ).


I thought tung was a finishing oil and tongue was something that sticks out.

On 1/30/2012 3:26 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> In article<[email protected]>, m II<[email protected]> wrote:
>> You can add "Buss", a company name, to that list. An electrical or
>> transportation vehicle **BUS** only has a single "S".
>
> Historical fact: the electricaal item -- a heavy-duty conductor with multiple
> secondary items attached to it was traditionally spelled with 2 esses.
> That usage _is_ where the company derives it's name from.
>
> "Modern' usage has corrupted the spelling to using only a single 's'.
>

Blame the less that "kind'a good" spell checker.

Take electrical and electricaal for instance. ;~)

"Just Wondering" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 1/16/2012 1:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>> in with your favorites as well.
>>
>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>
>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>
>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>> plans.
>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>
>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>
> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by hammering.
> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.


Well said


LMAO ww

"Steve Turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 1/17/2012 8:51 AM, Mike wrote:

>> Anal could also be someone that is overly concerned with someone's over
>> concern
>> about other people's misspellings. Just saying...
>
> And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical
> equation my answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. If the answer
> was coming back to you in the form of a monetary payment, I daresay you'd
> be a tad more concerned about how "anal" I'd been during the computations,
> wouldn't you? It's always bugged me how we seem to be getting less and
> less concerned for the correctness of our communications as time goes by.
> It hasn't always been this way. It amazes me when I read the writings of
> the average lowly farm boy from the eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more
> than a typical rural schoolhouse education, and how well they wrote back
> then compared to the average college graduate of today. Sad, really.


Even if the answer is calculated correctly it may not be communicated well.
;~)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10779207

"Leon" <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 1/16/2012 2:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>> in with your favorites as well.
>>
>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>
>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>
>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>> plans.
>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>
>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>
> You loosed me on that.

Jim Weisgram,
vice
vise
Kerry

"Jim Weisgram" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
> in with your favorites as well.
>
> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
> Lose is misplacing something.
>
> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>
> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
> plans.
> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>
> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).

I'm amused when I run the model name of a shotgun through the spell checker
in Word or other MS business apps... Browning Citori. ;~)

John

We previously had this discussion here and you lost last time, too.

----------------
"WW" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by
> hammering.
> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.


Well said


LMAO ww

**YOU** were the one inserting the answer into the sentence!
If you didn't apply the capital, where appropriate, don't blame anybody
else.

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"-MIKE-" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm
>

Many of those answers were wrong simply because they weren't
capitalized.
I can't give much respect to a website called "better-english" when
they
have such blatant errors in their own tests.

Steve Turner wrote:

>
> And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical
> equation my answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. If the
> answer was coming back to you in the form of a monetary payment, I
> daresay you'd be a tad more concerned about how "anal" I'd been
> during the computations, wouldn't you? It's always bugged me how we
> seem to be getting less and less concerned for the correctness of our
> communications as time goes by.

Wait Steve - do you really believe there was ever any greater concern for
the "correctness of our communications" over any period of time? Different
words - sure, but any real concern for this precision? Do you really
believe people thought about this?

> It hasn't always been this way. It
> amazes me when I read the writings of the average lowly farm boy from
> the eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more than a typical rural
> schoolhouse education, and how well they wrote back then compared to
> the average college graduate of today. Sad, really.

Examples please. I have seen and posess, many such examples and they
absolutely do not refelect any more accuarate, or even an intent at
accuracy. It's really easy to look back and simply state that things were
different or better back then, but it's a lot harder to substantiate that
claim.

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On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:43:24 -0800, Zz Yzx <[email protected]>
>What amazes me more is the number of occurrences of errors on news
>websites.

I've noticed that too. I'm guessing it's the result of the rush to get
the news online and the cost cutting that is going on everywhere.

In fact when I was looking for work at one point, I offered my
technical writing and proofreading services to one local news website.
Never got a response. I figured they didn't like my criticism of their
proofreading department.

Swingman wrote:
> On 1/16/2012 6:34 PM, Leon wrote:
>> On 1/16/2012 2:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there
>>> will be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to
>>> chime in with your favorites as well.
>>>
>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>
>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>
>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person
>>> who plans.
>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>
>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>
>> You loosed me on that.
>
> Two times ...

Your not right about that!

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On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:31:41 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Steve Turner wrote:
>
>>
>> And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical
>> equation my answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. If the
>> answer was coming back to you in the form of a monetary payment, I
>> daresay you'd be a tad more concerned about how "anal" I'd been
>> during the computations, wouldn't you? It's always bugged me how we
>> seem to be getting less and less concerned for the correctness of our
>> communications as time goes by.
>
>Wait Steve - do you really believe there was ever any greater concern for
>the "correctness of our communications" over any period of time? Different
>words - sure, but any real concern for this precision? Do you really
>believe people thought about this?
>
>> It hasn't always been this way. It
>> amazes me when I read the writings of the average lowly farm boy from
>> the eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more than a typical rural
>> schoolhouse education, and how well they wrote back then compared to
>> the average college graduate of today. Sad, really.
>
>Examples please. I have seen and posess, many such examples and they
>absolutely do not refelect any more accuarate, or even an intent at
>accuracy. It's really easy to look back and simply state that things were
>different or better back then, but it's a lot harder to substantiate that
>claim.

Read some of the letters written by soldiers during the civil war.
Accurate may not be the right word, but they are a much better read
and more descriptive and elegant than typical writing today.

Language is fluid, but youth, especially, has fallen into slovenly
ways using texting type abbreviations in other correspondence.

I can just see legal documents of the future

yo, dis ok?
I give u stuff, u give me bux

k c u l8tr


I can tolerate the typo in informal notes, such as posting here, but
at least know the proper use and spelling of common words that we used
to learn in the 4th to 8th grade..

Spelling was not considered important then.

Even family name spellings were phonetic based.

No cycles. It was never important until then.

------------
"Larry Blanchard" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
That would be the late eighteen hundreds, wouldn't it? If you go back
to
the writings of our founding fathers and others of that era, you'll
find
a total disregard of correct spelling.

As with most things, it goes in cycles :-).

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:43:37 -0800, Jim Weisgram <[email protected]> wrote:

>This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>in with your favorites as well.
>
>Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>Lose is misplacing something.
>
>Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>
>Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>plans.
>Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>
>Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).


And let us never forget:

woo dorker
cow orker

>"WW" wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
>> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by
>> hammering.
>> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
>> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.

Happens alot so it is a mute point.

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:09:58 -0500, "dadiOH" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Swingman wrote:
>> On 1/18/2012 7:02 AM, Leon wrote:
>>
>>> I
>>> recall a new bank that opened in down town Houston in the early 80's.
>>> Banc Texas. I thought to myself, if they don't care enough to spell
>>> correctly they will never make it. They didn't.
>>
>> Must of been a bunch of dumbasses, since that spelling is usually how
>> company's, who actually aren't banks, get around most state laws that
>> require that the word "bank" in a company name has a very specific
>> meaning, and, without any other qualifier/indication like "blood
>> bank", etc, they better indeed be a "bank".
>
>Stay out of Oklahoma, biggest there (50) is...
>https://www.bancfirst.com/

My wife's employer and our mortgage holder:

https://www.bancorpsouthonline.com/home/home

On 1/16/12 8:33 PM, Doug Winterburn wrote:
> On 01/16/2012 06:21 PM, Nova wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:43:37 -0800, Jim Weisgram
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>>> in with your favorites as well.
>>>
>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>
>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>
>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>>> plans.
>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>
>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>
>> Cheap - inexpensive
>> Cheep - a noise made by a young chicken
>
> and the always popular there/their/they're
>
> http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm
>

Many of those answers were wrong simply because they weren't capitalized.
I can't give much respect to a website called "better-english" when they
have such blatant errors in their own tests.


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On 1/16/12 9:41 PM, m II wrote:
> **YOU** were the one inserting the answer into the sentence!
> If you didn't apply the capital, where appropriate, don't blame anybody
> else.
>
> ----------
> "-MIKE-" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>> http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm
>>
>
> Many of those answers were wrong simply because they weren't capitalized.
> I can't give much respect to a website called "better-english" when they
> have such blatant errors in their own tests.
>

It was multiple choice, dipshit.


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On 1/17/2012 8:51 AM, Mike wrote:
> On 1/16/2012 3:57 PM, Just Wondering wrote:
>> On 1/16/2012 1:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>>> in with your favorites as well.
>>>
>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>
>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>
>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>>> plans.
>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>
>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>
>> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
>> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by hammering.
>> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
>> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.
>
> Advice is something you give or get.
> Advise is something you do.
>
> Anal could also be someone that is overly concerned with someone's over concern
> about other people's misspellings. Just saying...

And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical equation my
answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. If the answer was coming back to
you in the form of a monetary payment, I daresay you'd be a tad more concerned
about how "anal" I'd been during the computations, wouldn't you? It's always
bugged me how we seem to be getting less and less concerned for the correctness
of our communications as time goes by. It hasn't always been this way. It
amazes me when I read the writings of the average lowly farm boy from the
eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more than a typical rural schoolhouse
education, and how well they wrote back then compared to the average college
graduate of today. Sad, really.

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On 1/17/2012 10:36 AM, Steve Turner wrote:
> On 1/17/2012 8:51 AM, Mike wrote:
>> On 1/16/2012 3:57 PM, Just Wondering wrote:
>>> On 1/16/2012 1:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>>>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>>>> in with your favorites as well.
>>>>
>>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>>
>>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>>
>>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>>>> plans.
>>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>>
>>> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
>>> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by hammering.
>>> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
>>> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.
>>
>> Advice is something you give or get.
>> Advise is something you do.
>>
>> Anal could also be someone that is overly concerned with someone's
>> over concern
>> about other people's misspellings. Just saying...
>
> And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical
> equation my answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. If the answer
> was coming back to you in the form of a monetary payment, I daresay
> you'd be a tad more concerned about how "anal" I'd been during the
> computations, wouldn't you? It's always bugged me how we seem to be
> getting less and less concerned for the correctness of our
> communications as time goes by. It hasn't always been this way. It
> amazes me when I read the writings of the average lowly farm boy from
> the eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more than a typical rural
> schoolhouse education, and how well they wrote back then compared to the
> average college graduate of today. Sad, really.

Yes, part of that is related to the high cost of reproducing diagrams.
Thus the careful descriptions.

I see that many modern wood "carving" books are little more than books
of photographs. It must be cheap to create them and perhaps they are
marketable for a very broad audience. I'd prefer the "thousand words"
TYVM!


>

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:36:52 -0600, Steve Turner wrote:

> And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical
> equation my answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. If the answer
> was coming back to you in the form of a monetary payment, I daresay
> you'd be a tad more concerned about how "anal" I'd been during the
> computations, wouldn't you?

I don't mind so much when the average person can't spell, although it is
a minor irritant. What really bothers me is books, magazines, and
newspapers with rampant spelling mistakes. Those people are supposed to
know better.


> It's always bugged me how we seem to be
> getting less and less concerned for the correctness of our
> communications as time goes by. It hasn't always been this way. It
> amazes me when I read the writings of the average lowly farm boy from
> the eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more than a typical rural
> schoolhouse education, and how well they wrote back then compared to the
> average college graduate of today. Sad, really.

That would be the late eighteen hundreds, wouldn't it? If you go back to
the writings of our founding fathers and others of that era, you'll find
a total disregard of correct spelling.

As with most things, it goes in cycles :-).

--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw

The whole spelling thing is ridiculous anyway. I know it's been posted here
before but this seems like a good occasion to repost Mark Twain's take
on the subject. Note there is some controversy over whether Twain/Clemens
was actually the author.


A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be
replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of
the alphabet.

The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation,
which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so
that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might
well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j"
anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5
doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing
vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant
letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould
doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl,
kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.


--
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Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar. org

And another commentary on spelling:

I have a spell checker

It came with my PC It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can
knot see

Eye ran this poem threw it Your sure real glad two no Its very polished in
its own weigh My chequer tolled me sew

A cheek or is a blessing It freeze yew lodes of thyme It helps me right
awl stiles two reed And aides me when aye rime

Now spilling does not phase me It does knot bring a tier My pay purrs awl
due glad den With wrapped words fare as hear

To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should be proud And wee
mussed dew the best wee can Sew flaws are knot aloud

So ewe can sea why aye dew prays Such soft wear four pea seas And why eye
brake in two averse Buy righting want to please

-Author Unknown



--
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Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - lwasserm(a)sdf. lonestar. org

On 1/18/12 1:23 PM, Swingman wrote:
> company's....

Biting my tongue....
...and sticking it out. :-p


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On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:57:04 +0000, Larry W wrote:

> And another commentary on spelling:
>
> I have a spell checker
>
> It came with my PC It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can
> knot see

And on punctuation :-).



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On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:11:30 -0500, Dave wrote:

> In fact when I was looking for work at one point, I offered my technical
> writing and proofreading services to one local news website. Never got a
> response. I figured they didn't like my criticism of their proofreading
> department.

Did they, in fact, *have* a proofreading department. Most don't. They
have computer programs that check spelling and sometimes grammar, but no
proofreaders. Sadly, it's an obsolete profession.

--
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Leon wrote:
> On 1/18/2012 5:40 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Read some of the letters written by soldiers during the civil war.
>>> Accurate may not be the right word, but they are a much better read
>>> and more descriptive and elegant than typical writing today.
>>>
>>
>> I have seen (or heard) excerpts from some of those writings and I'll
>> give you that the language was much more elegant in some of them
>> than what is common today. I'm not sure it was a widespread skill
>> since there was so much iliteracy back then, and so many people
>> (especially men) did not know how to read/write.
>>
>>
>>> Language is fluid, but youth, especially, has fallen into slovenly
>>> ways using texting type abbreviations in other correspondence.
>>>
>>
>> No contest.
>>
>>
>>
>
> That is part if it but the lack of publicly caring goes way back. I
> recall a new bank that opened in down town Houston in the early 80's.
> Banc Texas. I thought to myself, if they don't care enough to spell
> correctly they will never make it. They didn't.

Not enough Frenchmen I guess :)

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Swingman wrote:
> On 1/18/2012 7:02 AM, Leon wrote:
>
>> I
>> recall a new bank that opened in down town Houston in the early 80's.
>> Banc Texas. I thought to myself, if they don't care enough to spell
>> correctly they will never make it. They didn't.
>
> Must of been a bunch of dumbasses, since that spelling is usually how
> company's, who actually aren't banks, get around most state laws that
> require that the word "bank" in a company name has a very specific
> meaning, and, without any other qualifier/indication like "blood
> bank", etc, they better indeed be a "bank".

Stay out of Oklahoma, biggest there (50) is...
https://www.bancfirst.com/

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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:26:56 -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote:

> Historical fact: the electricaal item -- a heavy-duty conductor with
> multiple secondary items attached to it was traditionally spelled with 2
> esses. That usage _is_ where the company derives it's name from.

And when computers first came out the double ss applied to them as well.
In fact, "bus" still looks funny to me.

--
Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:01:37 -0500, Ed Pawlowski <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>>"WW" wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
>>> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by
>>> hammering.
>>> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
>>> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.
>
>Happens alot so it is a mute point.

However moot, pounding with a hammer is never mute, suh.

--
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
--Duke Ellington

In article <[email protected]>,
Larry Jaques <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:54:53 -0800 (PST), Luigi Zanasi
><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>from the anti-faq:
>>BTW the correct spelling accepted in rec.woodworking for some words
>>are: joiner, planner, scrapper, rabbit, tennon (tendon is definitely
>>wrong), hobbiest, course (not fine), bisket, popular (Liriodendron
>>tulipifera), cyprus (Taxodium distichum), tounge & grove (tongue is a
>>finishing oil), radio alarm saw (tmLJ).
>
><giggle>

Speaking of "radio alarm saws", how would one fit a saw-stop mechanism
to -that-?

You can add "Buss", a company name, to that list. An electrical or
transportation vehicle **BUS** only has a single "S".

---------------
"Jim Weisgram" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
in with your favorites as well.

Loose means a thing that is not tight.
Lose is misplacing something.

Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board

Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
plans.
Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.

Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:33:52 -0700, Doug Winterburn
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 01/16/2012 06:21 PM, Nova wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:43:37 -0800, Jim Weisgram
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>>> in with your favorites as well.
>>>
>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>
>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>
>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>>> plans.
>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>
>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>
>> Cheap - inexpensive
>> Cheep - a noise made by a young chicken
>
>and the always popular there/their/they're
>
>http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm

And if they don't like it, they can eat a newkyaler bomb.

Its/it's

less/fewer (Bloody NOBOODY uses fewer nowadays, damnit.)

There's many (Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!)

In today's world, the list is illiterately endless.

--
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
--Duke Ellington

"-MIKE-" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 1/18/12 1:23 PM, Swingman wrote:
>> company's....
>
> Biting my tongue....
> ...and sticking it out. :-p
>

Don't they own it in some way? ;~)

On 1/16/2012 2:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
> in with your favorites as well.
>
> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
> Lose is misplacing something.
>
> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>
> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
> plans.
> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>
> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).


Having, not haveing.

--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

F Murtz wrote the following:
> Jim Weisgram wrote:
>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>> in with your favorites as well.
>>
>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>
>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>
>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>> plans.
>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>
>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>
> flourescent lights

They're the ones with flour in them that produces the white color.

--
Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeros after @

Larry Blanchard wrote the following:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:36:52 -0600, Steve Turner wrote:
>
>> And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical
>> equation my answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. If the answer
>> was coming back to you in the form of a monetary payment, I daresay
>> you'd be a tad more concerned about how "anal" I'd been during the
>> computations, wouldn't you?
>
> I don't mind so much when the average person can't spell, although it is
> a minor irritant. What really bothers me is books, magazines, and
> newspapers with rampant spelling mistakes. Those people are supposed to
> know better.
>
>
>> It's always bugged me how we seem to be
>> getting less and less concerned for the correctness of our
>> communications as time goes by. It hasn't always been this way. It
>> amazes me when I read the writings of the average lowly farm boy from
>> the eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more than a typical rural
>> schoolhouse education, and how well they wrote back then compared to the
>> average college graduate of today. Sad, really.
>
> That would be the late eighteen hundreds, wouldn't it? If you go back to
> the writings of our founding fathers and others of that era, you'll find
> a total disregard of correct spelling.

And they were English subjects until independence.

>
> As with most things, it goes in cycles :-).
>


--
Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeros after @

In article <[email protected]>,
Just Wondering <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>My reason for writing was pearly shellfish -- I only posted for the halibut.

Abalone!! You did it on porpoise, and manta every word. Truth be known,
you thought you were the sole of wit, but it was just a crappie attempt. :)

In article <[email protected]>, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 1/17/2012 10:36 AM, Steve Turner wrote:
>
>Sad ,indeed. You should have seen some of the job applications I
>reviewed. I lost count of how many went in the trash because they were
>so poorly written they didn't make sense. All were written by college
>graduates.


Created by the named author based on actual GRADUATE SCHOOL admmission
essays:

I have a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule
The checker pour o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Be fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks or have a laps,
We wood be maid to wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of non eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware four pea seas.
And why I brake in two averse
By righting want too pleas.

-- Jerry Zar, Dean of the Graduate School
Northwestern Illinois University

In article <[email protected]>,
Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote:
>On 1/17/2012 9:02 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:01:37 -0500, Ed Pawlowski<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> "WW" wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
>>>>> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by
>>>>> hammering.
>>>>> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
>>>>> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.
>>>
>>> Happens alot so it is a mute point.
>>
>> However moot, pounding with a hammer is never mute, suh.
>>
>> --
>> I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
>> --Duke Ellington
>
>Define hardly.

Q. Why do little ducks walk softly?
A. Because they can't walk, hardly!

In article <[email protected]>,
Larry W <[email protected]> wrote:
>And another commentary on spelling:
>
>I have a spell checker
> ....
>
>-Author Unknown

The original was written by Jerry Yar, Dean of the Graduate School at
Northwestern Illinois University, to accompany a article about the
decline of writing quality as seen in Graduate School admissions essays.

In it's original glory:

I have a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule
The checker pour o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Be fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks or have a laps,
We wood be maid to wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of non eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware four pea seas.
And why I brake in two averse
By righting want too pleas.

-- Jerry Zar, Dean of the Graduate School
Northwestern Illinois University

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:10:42 +0000 (UTC), Larry Blanchard
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:57:04 +0000, Larry W wrote:
>
>> And another commentary on spelling:
>>
>> I have a spell checker
>>
>> It came with my PC It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can
>> knot see
>
>And on punctuation :-).

What do you mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(arrrrgh!)

--
The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which
it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.
-- Glenn Doman

Jim Weisgram wrote:
> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
> in with your favorites as well.
>
> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
> Lose is misplacing something.
>
> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>
> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
> plans.
> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>
> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).

flourescent lights

On 1/17/2012 10:36 AM, Steve Turner wrote:
> On 1/17/2012 8:51 AM, Mike wrote:
>> On 1/16/2012 3:57 PM, Just Wondering wrote:
>>> On 1/16/2012 1:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
>>>> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
>>>> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
>>>> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
>>>> in with your favorites as well.
>>>>
>>>> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
>>>> Lose is misplacing something.
>>>>
>>>> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
>>>> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>>>>
>>>> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
>>>> plans.
>>>> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).
>>>
>>> Angle is a shape formed by two lines diverging from a common point.
>>> Anvil is a heavy block of iron on which metals are shaped by hammering.
>>> A nail is a slender pointed metal fastener designed to be pounded in.
>>> Anal is someone overly concerned about other people's misspellings.
>>
>> Advice is something you give or get.
>> Advise is something you do.
>>
>> Anal could also be someone that is overly concerned with someone's
>> over concern
>> about other people's misspellings. Just saying...
>
> And yet if I was communicating to you the results of a mathematical
> equation my answer would either be CORRECT or INCORRECT. If the answer
> was coming back to you in the form of a monetary payment, I daresay
> you'd be a tad more concerned about how "anal" I'd been during the
> computations, wouldn't you?

You are, of course, correct. However, language is much more fluid than
a math equation. That leads to a lot of oratory that has no purpose
other than to prevent one from understanding the speakers position.
Well, I suppose statistical analysis is pretty fluid as well, but that
is another story.

It's always bugged me how we seem to be
> getting less and less concerned for the correctness of our
> communications as time goes by. It hasn't always been this way. It
> amazes me when I read the writings of the average lowly farm boy from
> the eighteen-hundreds, with nothing more than a typical rural
> schoolhouse education, and how well they wrote back then compared to the
> average college graduate of today. Sad, really.
>

Sad ,indeed. You should have seen some of the job applications I
reviewed. I lost count of how many went in the trash because they were
so poorly written they didn't make sense. All were written by college
graduates.

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:53:57 -0600, [email protected]
(Robert Bonomi) wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
>Larry Jaques <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:54:53 -0800 (PST), Luigi Zanasi
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>from the anti-faq:
>>>BTW the correct spelling accepted in rec.woodworking for some words
>>>are: joiner, planner, scrapper, rabbit, tennon (tendon is definitely
>>>wrong), hobbiest, course (not fine), bisket, popular (Liriodendron
>>>tulipifera), cyprus (Taxodium distichum), tounge & grove (tongue is a
>>>finishing oil), radio alarm saw (tmLJ).
>>
>><giggle>
>
>Speaking of "radio alarm saws", how would one fit a saw-stop mechanism
>to -that-?

Piece o' cake/duck soup, that. Hinged doohickey which swings into the
path of the blade from the top when activated. It'd probably be
cheaper and easier to install than one for a table saw.


--
Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs,
show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you'll have
more beads than you know what to do with.
-- Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009

On 1/16/2012 2:43 PM, Jim Weisgram wrote:
> This is tilting at windmills I know, but maybe someone out there will
> be helped by knowing which are the most common woodworking
> misspellings here on rec.woodworking and elsewhere. Feel free to chime
> in with your favorites as well.
>
> Loose means a thing that is not tight.
> Lose is misplacing something.
>
> Joiner is someone who joins (wood, clubs, whatever)
> Jointer is that tool that flattens a face and an edge of a board
>
> Planner is one of those books with a yearly calendar, or a person who
> plans.
> Planer is a tool to make 2 faces of a board parallel.
>
> Ah, I feel better now haveing gotten that off my cheast (sic).

You loosed me on that.