Please, please stop saying...
Aug. 7th, 2006 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbhe"Only you can make yourself feel guilty." This is not true - what is true is that only you can stop yourself from feeling guilty, which is totally different and much harder.
"Dialated." Your cervix is not a telephone.
"Loose" instead of "lose" and vice-a versa. The former is confusing and the latter is irritating.
"No offense but" and all similar variations on the theme.
Thank you. (And you can all stop saying "Thankyou" while you're about it, and all).
"Dialated." Your cervix is not a telephone.
"Loose" instead of "lose" and vice-a versa. The former is confusing and the latter is irritating.
"No offense but" and all similar variations on the theme.
Thank you. (And you can all stop saying "Thankyou" while you're about it, and all).
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Date: 2006-08-07 07:54 pm (UTC)That's a good one. It seems like any statement that begins with that phrase is bound to offend.
Why is that?
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Date: 2006-08-07 07:57 pm (UTC)I think Webster must have been sleeping when he made some of the changes to the English language that he did in writing his dictionary... Subtleties like "tyre" and "tire" serve a purpose; they make the noun a different entity from the verb. Same with other spelling differences, i.e. "kerb" and "curb". But in the US, a noun is apparently a verb, and vice-versa.