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Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #90 on: January 30, 2019, 04:12:52 AM »
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It’s not scriptural at all but comes from the heretic, John Calvin, who's extremism caused him to believe in such false notions.

Who's or whose?

Who’s is a contraction of  who is or who has.

If you are confused as to when to put an apostrophe try replacing the apostrophe with the missing letter.


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It is not scriptural at all but comes from the heretic, John Calvin, who is extremism caused him to believe in such false notions.

Doesn't make sense does it.


The correct word here is whose - a possessive pronoun used here as an adjective: 

Whose cat killed the rat?  


Whose is the possessive form of who  used as an adjective, meaning belongs to whom .
Whose painting won the Archibald prize?

Or the possessive form of which used as an adjective, meaning belongs to which.
A town whose name escapes me.


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It’s not scriptural at all but comes from the heretic, John Calvin, whose extremism caused him to believe in such false notions.


Time per UTC/Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #91 on: February 03, 2019, 12:44:28 PM »

At 0500 UT, it would be 4:00 PM PST.

Huh?   That's a difference in UTC of 13 hours westward (+5, -8 hours).  Or 11 hours eastward (i.e., UTC+11).  For what abbreviated "P" in PST would that be true?

If "P" is inended to signify the Pacific Standard Time of North America, the difference in UTC is only 8 hours westward (i.e., UTC-8).
•  At 0500 UT, it would be 4:00 9:00 PM PST, in that Pacific Standard Time.
•  At 0500 0000 UT, it would be 4:00 PM PST, also in that Pacific Standard Time.

The quoted time-zone translation is true for New Caledonia, the Solomon Is., and the Loyalty Is. in the S.W. Pacific, but I'm puzzled about where one would find a prominent "P" for naming a time-zone.
•  Petropavlovsk (Kamchatka, Russian Far East)?  No, it's 1 time-zone (UTC+12) too far east.
•  Papua New Guinea (British Commonwealth)?  No, it's 1 time-zone  (UTC+10) too far west.
•  Perth (Western Oz)?  No, it's 3 time-zones (UTC+8) too far west, as also are Rep. of Philippines and Peking [*].

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Note *: The latter name is certainly on-topic for "spelling" (but if anyone wants to pursue it, its pursuit probably ought to be in a separate new topic): "Peking" is the spelling according to the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese, developed by 2 Brits from their experience as diplomats in China in the 19th Century.  Their spellings prevailed in English (notably on maps) until the 1970s or 1980s.  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles>.


Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #92 on: February 04, 2019, 09:00:21 AM »


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... to fall pray to ...

... prey...

Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #93 on: February 18, 2019, 03:54:32 AM »

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Who Did More Damage: Elvis or The Beetles?


Beetle - Beatle
Do not confuse the two homophones -  beetle and Beatle.
beetle (noun) is
1. an insect, one of an enormous number of species in the order coleoptera.
2. a type of heavy hammer, rammer or pounder. Both the word and the tool are  not in common use nowadays.
 To beetle (verb):
1. To overhang. A seaside cliff may 'beetle over the shore'. hence beetle-browed, meaning 'having over-hanging eyebrows'. The entomologist Charles Darwin could in later life have been appropriately described as 'beetle-browed', as could Rudyard Kipling, whose schoolboy nickname was Beetle.
2. The second is 'to move in an undignified manner', 'to move aimlessly, like the insect'. This was first used of aeroplanes around the time of World War 1.
3. To strike with a beetle [hammer, or rammer]. This word is now obsolete.

Beatle (noun) is one of four members of a musical group whose name was chosen because they played music with an insistent beat, as well as being a reference to Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets. While there are many species of beetle, and millions of individuals, there were only four Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George hαɾɾιson and Ringo Starr,
 

Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #94 on: February 18, 2019, 09:24:41 PM »
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I'm asking this in regards to the lecture I attended last night.

Interestingly, the poster who wrote “in regards to” also acknowledged that “modern language, especially modern English, is a butchered language”, which is kind of ironic!
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"In regards to" seems to have fairly recently popped into the language.
The correct phrase is singular: "in regard to."
The three word phrase could be replaced by one word, “regarding”, "concerning" or even “about”. For example:
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This letter is in regard to your kind invitation.
I write concerning your kind invitation.
This letter is about your kind invitation.
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What could be confusing the issue is:
As regards is used to introduce a new or different issue.