A man is a fiance. A woman is a fiancee.

[Bagpuss]

Date: 12/10/2004 4

1:33 PM
Author: pearcrazy
So for those starry eyed

couples about to take the plunge it''s:
(male) fiance
(female)fiancee

For those who took the plunge, and found out they were drowning:

(male) divorce
(female)divorcee


For those who didn''t get out of the water in time and drowned:

(male)widower
(female)widow

That last one is so funny!

 

[belle]

Date: 12/10/2004 4:10:47 PM
Author: reena
lol, and don''t even get me started on the which/thats.

could we go ahead and get lay & lie straighted out though? ..........laid, lain, layed, lie, lied.............

 

[JohnQuixote]

My mom would love this thread!

An amendment to Ree-Ree''s proper use of Carat:

Carat with a C (abbr. c, car.) is a unit of weight for precious stones = 0.200 gram.

Karat with a K (abbr. k, kt.) is a unit of measure for the fineness of gold, equal to 1/24 part...Pure gold is 24 karat.

 

[i_like_tiffany_please_dont_hate_me]

Carat with a C (abbr. c, car.) is a unit of weight for precious stones = 0.200 gram.

Karat with a K (abbr. k, kt.) is a unit of measure for the fineness of gold, equal to 1/24 part...Pure gold is 24 karat.

you forgot carrot with a c (abbr, crt), a crunchy vegetable that makes you see in the dark

 

[reena]

Date: 12/10/2004 4:43:25 PM
Author: JohnQuixote

My mom would love this thread!

An amendment to Ree-Ree''s proper use of Carat:

Carat with a C (abbr. c, car.) is a unit of weight for precious stones = 0.200 gram.

Karat with a K (abbr. k, kt.) is a unit of measure for the fineness of gold, equal to 1/24 part...Pure gold is 24 karat.

oh, yes--sorry! that was very diamond-centric of me wasn''t it! lol.

 

[MrsFrk]

Date: 12/10/2004 4

1:33 PM
Author: pearcrazy
So for those starry eyed

couples about to take the plunge it''s:
(male) fiance
(female)fiancee

For those who took the plunge, and found out they were drowning:

(male) divorce
(female)divorcee


For those who didn''t get out of the water in time and drowned:

(male)widower
(female)widow

Oh my, this is hilarious!

Here''s mine: you ask for "advice", not "advise".

One of my best friends is British, I have never gotten used to the fact that he spells "spelled" s-p-e-l-t, and calls cigarettes "fags". I do adore his accent.

Even when he uses profanity it sounds plummy and elegant.

 

[canuk-gal]

Date: 8/13/2003 8:48:44 AM
Author: fire&ice

Another point. This is a pet peeve of mine. One is to wish the Fiance ''Congrats''. The Fiancee receives ''Best Wishes''. But, maybe I''m just old school.

HI:

Notwithstanding grammer, I agree on this point with manners in that you are to congratulate the man; the implication being he has made a "fine catch".

cheers--Sharon

 

[Rank Amateur]

grammer? Kelsey Grammer?


I work with a guy who says things such as, "We should put that away and save it for prosperity."

 

[MrsFrk]

I know a gal whose neighbor dated Kelsey Grammer before he kicked his coke habit and became a lovable American TV institution. Not a pretty story. Police, weeping, running around in his undies.

 

[reena]

Date: 12/10/2004 5:36:47 PM
Author: MrsFrk
I know a gal whose neighbor dated Kelsey Grammer before he kicked his coke habit and became a lovable American TV institution. Not a pretty story. Police, weeping, running around in his undies.

LOL!

sounds a lot like matthew mcconaughey. apparently he likes to get high and beat the bongos in his boxer briefs.

and yes, that''s "bongos", not "bongo''s".

 

[MrsFrk]

I don''t think we''d have much to talk about, but I wouldn''t kick ol'' Matthew M. outta bed for eating crackers.

 

[reena]

Date: 12/10/2004 5:50:29 PM
Author: MrsFrk
I don''t think we''d have much to talk about, but I wouldn''t kick ol'' Matthew M. outta bed for eating crackers.

well, if you were in bed with Matthew M. and you were talking, i''d have to slap you silly.

 

[MrsFrk]

Very true. Wouldn''t be any time to talk, I''d be too busy shagging him senseless.

 

[canuk-gal]

Date: 12/10/2004 5:34:48 PM
Author: Rank Amateur
grammer? Kelsey Grammer?


I work with a guy who says things such as, ''We should put that away and save it for prosperity.''

HI:

You caught me--typo! Glad you are on your toes RA, and tanks alot.

cheers--Sharon

 

[foundnemo]

My former manager would always say, "it''s a moo point" or "it''s a mute point".

I no longer work for her!

 

[Mara]

Date: 12/10/2004 5:46:52 PM
Author: reena

Date: 12/10/2004 5:36:47 PM
Author: MrsFrk
I know a gal whose neighbor dated Kelsey Grammer before he kicked his coke habit and became a lovable American TV institution. Not a pretty story. Police, weeping, running around in his undies.

sounds a lot like matthew mcconaughey. apparently he likes to get high and beat the bongos in his boxer briefs.

Hmm now who would I rather see in undies...delicious Matthew with atimetokill hair or KELSEY with body hair? oh that''s a hard one!

 

[AGBF]

So this thread is back, is it? I can *always* throw in a few pet peeves. I can't stand the misuse of "less" and "fewer" or of "number" and "amount". It also grates on me to hear "adverse" and "averse" confused.

Italian now, anyone?

fidanzato=fiancé
fidanzata=fiancée

 

[reena]

Date: 12/10/2004 8:12

9 PM
Author: AGBF
So this thread is back, is it? I can *always* throw in a few pet peeves. I can''t stand the misuse of ''less'' and ''fewer'' or of ''number'' and ''amount''. It also grates on me to hear ''adverse'' and ''averse'' confused.

Italian now, anyone?

fidanzato=fiancé
fidanzata=fiancée

okay these are interesting ones! i hope i''m using them correctly. so what''s the rule--"fewer" is for situations where you''re comparing items that come in ascertainable "units", for lack of a better word? so, "Bob has fewer cookies than Jim." but when you''re comparing items that aren''t quantifiable in that way, you use "less"? so, "Bob has less pride than Jim." is that right? i''m sure i''m using them correctly as a matter of instinct, but i don''t actually know what the rule is.

and is it the same idea with number vs. amount? so we say, "tell me the number of cookies you have in your hand", but we would say "i have a large amount of trust in you"?

oh how i love grammar . . .

 

[hoorray]

My mother would also love this thread! (although she would freak if she knew I hung out on a diamond forum.....) Her favorite pet peeves are well/good & further/farther.

 

[Mara]

one of my pet peeves is pronounciation.

aka saturday is not saurday. library is not liberry.

i am a culprit of sometimes having a brain fart and prouncing the H in herb. there is another one that i continually screw up to Greg's amusement, but i can't recall it now.

oh and when i met him, he introduced me to 'anyway' as opposed to 'anyways'. it's amazing how many people say 'anyways'.

lop, greg's pet peeve is well/good as well!

my mom is a teacher so she was always a stickler for grammer, pronounciation and spellling. /www.pricescope.com/idealbb/images/smilies/9.gif[/img]

 

[JohnQuixote]

Mara,

How about "Nuke-yaler" instead of Nuclear?

Edited to add a question mark at the end of the sentence.
I am taking no chances in this thread.

 

[canuk-gal]

Date: 12/10/2004 8:35:19 PM
Author: Mara

my mom is a teacher so she was always a stickler for grammer, pronounciation and spellling. <--haha look at my three l''s! i''ll leave that up for fun.

HI:

As was mine--my dear mother brought home all those extra spelling worksheets in primary school so you''d think that....well, forward to Pricescope 35 years (for me anyway) later where RA points out my recent spelling error in spelling the word "grammar".........of course it was a typo..........do you not agree Mara?

cheers--Sharon

 

[AGBF]

Date: 12/10/2004 8:22:45 PM
Author: reena


i''m sure i''m using them correctly as a matter of instinct, but i don''t actually know what the rule is.

The rule is exactly what you said when you explained why you chose one word for some situations and the other word for other situations .

How many times does one hear: "If you had eaten the amount of cookies I did, you would be sick, too!"

 

[AGBF]

Date: 12/10/2004 8:35:19 PM
Author: Mara
one of my pet peeves is pronounciation.

aka saturday is not saurday. library is not liberry.

i am a culprit of sometimes having a brain fart and prouncing the H in herb. there is another one that i continually screw up to Greg''s amusement, but i can''t recall it now.

Well, I was taught that if one mispronounces a word, he is likely to misspell it. Thus one should not say, "mischievious" lest he spell the word as I did! So I agree that mispronunciation can lead to worse crimes!

"Herb" can be pronounced with the "h" or without it. No crime there.

 

[The Joker]

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this

There is a two-letter word that perhaps
has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."
It''s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the
list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a
meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP
for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP
the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and
think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in
the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page
and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways
UP is used.
It will take UP a lot of your time,
but if you don''t give UP,
you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets UP the earth.

When it doesn''t rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I''ll wrap it UP,
for now my time is UP, so.............
Time to shut UP.....!
Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning &the last thing you do at
night?
U P

[If you want to understand this last ''joke'' read the letters aloud as U P ]

Joker....

 

[reena]

lol joker!

similar to the anyway/anyways, i will confess to saying "towards" instead of "toward" upon occasion. and speaking of occasion, i can NEVER remember how to spell it. ever. (not even this time!) i always have to google it for the correct spelling. two Cs, one S? two Ss, one C? argggh! it never looks right to me either way. occasion/ocassion. in fact i think the second one looks like it should be correct!

i used to be fond of telling my FI (then-boyfriend) that i am "risk adverse". he always got a good chuckle out of that one.

we also crack each other up a lot when we''re both singing along to a song on the radio and we realize that we both have very different ideas of what the words to the song are. good example: stevie nicks''s "Just like the white winged dove"? my FI was utterly convinced that she was singing "Just like the ones we love". We asked my sister to settle the debate, but she thought it was "Just like the one-winged dove". lol!

similarly, you know at the end of "ice, ice baby" when vanilla ice is breaking it down and he goes, sort of in a whisper, "ice ice baby, too cold . . . too cold . . ." (i know you know it!) i caught my FI singing: "ice ice baby, to go . . . to go . . ." lolololol

 

[sevens one]

Date: 12/11/2004 11:15:56 AM
Author: reena
lol joker!

similar to the anyway/anyways, i will confess to saying ''towards'' instead of ''toward'' upon occasion. and speaking of occasion, i can NEVER remember how to spell it. ever. (not even this time!) i always have to google it for the correct spelling. two Cs, one S? two Ss, one C? argggh! it never looks right to me either way. occasion/ocassion. in fact i think the second one looks like it should be correct!

i used to be fond of telling my FI (then-boyfriend) that i am ''risk adverse''. he always got a good chuckle out of that one.

we also crack each other up a lot when we''re both singing along to a song on the radio and we realize that we both have very different ideas of what the words to the song are. good example: stevie nicks''s ''Just like the white winged dove''? my FI was utterly convinced that she was singing ''Just like the ones we love''. We asked my sister to settle the debate, but she thought it was ''Just like the one-winged dove''. lol!

similarly, you know at the end of ''ice, ice baby'' when vanilla ice is breaking it down and he goes, sort of in a whisper, ''ice ice baby, too cold . . . too cold . . .'' (i know you know it!) i caught my FI singing: ''ice ice baby, to go . . . to go . . .'' lolololol

Oh that is so true about lyrics. You know Elton John''s "Holding me closer Tiny Dancer."
Well my daughter used to sing: "Hold me closer Tony Danza"
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[fire&ice]

Date: 12/10/2004 5:30

6 PM
Author: canuk-gal

Date: 8/13/2003 8:48:44 AM
Author: fire&ice

Another point. This is a pet peeve of mine. One is to wish the Fiance ''Congrats''. The Fiancee receives ''Best Wishes''. But, maybe I''m just old school.

HI:

Notwithstanding grammer, I agree on this point with manners in that you are to congratulate the man; the implication being he has made a ''fine catch''.

cheers--Sharon

A pet peeve of mine is someone being so rude as to point out incorrect grammer. But then - I write what I speak. Good manners make people feel more comfortable. They are not to make someone seem superior or inferior.

My mother was an English teacher. She taught me to*listen* to people for content. Imagine that?

 

[reena]

nan-LOL!

F&I, i agree with you, it''s pretty rude to correct someone''s spelling or grammar when they are speaking/writing to you. this thread is a different story, however, as it is not directed to any person in particular.

 

[canuk-gal]

Date: 12/11/2004 11:58:47 AM
Author: fire&ice

Date: 12/10/2004 5:30

6 PM
Author: canuk-gal

Date: 8/13/2003 8:48:44 AM
Author: fire&ice

Another point. This is a pet peeve of mine. One is to wish the Fiance ''Congrats''. The Fiancee receives ''Best Wishes''. But, maybe I''m just old school.

HI:

Notwithstanding grammer, I agree on this point with manners in that you are to congratulate the man; the implication being he has made a ''fine catch''.

cheers--Sharon

A pet peeve of mine is someone being so rude as to point out incorrect grammer. But then - I write what I speak. Good manners make people feel more comfortable. They are not to make someone seem superior or inferior.

My mother was an English teacher. She taught me to*listen* to people for content. Imagine that?

HI:

Oh my goodness, I think I have made a mistake or somehow have been misunderstood--I didn''t mean your grammar, F & I, but in general terms. I realize that this thread started discussing terms in specific but has moved into more a general discussion about grammar. That is what I meant, and nothing more.

cheers--Sharon