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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2018, 04:17:51 AM »
Quote from: Nadir on November 15, 2018, 03:46:49 AM
Why doesn't cloves rhyme with gloves :confused:
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Why doesn't love rhyme with move :confused:
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Who can explain these English language discrepancies?
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Cloves rhymes with droves, groves, By Jove's, coves and stoves.
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Gloves rhymes with above's, doves, shoves and loves.
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Love rhymes with above, dove (the bird) and wuv. (Wuv is +W's very seldom used silly-word for love.)
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Move rhymes with behoove and groove. So why isn't it spelled moove, or just moov? Final e should make the o long, like in moave.
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Offline 1st Mansion Tenant

Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2018, 12:00:36 PM »
Quote from: Maria Regina on November 15, 2018, 03:22:07 AM

:)  When you said ducksearch, I visualized a pretty iridescent black and white Muscovy drake nodding his large red head forward and backwards as he walks. How do ducks manage to walk and to nod their heads at the same time without getting dizzy? And yet, while they are searching for the next slug, snail or silver legless lizard to grab in their beaks, they continue to nod.

For more information on Muscovy ducks or for information on raising them for their delicious eggs, do a duckduckgo.com search.


God is so delightful in His creatures.

My personal opinion is that people who dislike ducks are highly suspect. However, ducks are known for their lack of spelling and grammatical acuŠ¼en.   :D
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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2018, 02:10:56 PM »
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What drives some of us crazy is the misspelling of you as one letter: u. 
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Now that's showing up on signs posting announcements for all viewers.
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                                           ... could make it "b4 u enter"
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Would u wear this button? 
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Might be a personal message: 
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British No U Turn signs:                                                
  
(It was a political message: British Government U-Turn On Euro Constitution -- LONDON - APRIL 19: A 'No U-Turn' road sign is seen near the British Houses of Parliament on April 19, 2004 in London, England. The British government seems set to announce plans for a referendum on a European Union constitution which is being seen as a major U-turn by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images))
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Sometimes it's not really information that's being posted.....
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Some people seem to treat spelling as a religion...
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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2018, 02:24:09 PM »
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Danny Glover's name is all around "love." 
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GLOVER & GIBSON
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Offline Nadir

Re: Spelling Challenge
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2018, 03:01:20 PM »
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None of these words in quotes  is  [are] mine!  .................... you're welcome.
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The test you use to prove the text right is this: omit words between (e.g., "in quotes") and see if it's right: "...these words ... are mine."
That is obviously better than "...these words ... is mine." Corrected form: None of these words in quotes are mine.
Neil, You are reasoning like a turnip!  :jester:

I said "None ...... is mine". None indicates negation (not one). Now "one" is singular and any more than one is plural. So if one is singular what is less than one? Could less than one possibly be plural?  "None" is an abbreviated form of "not one".

From https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/quantifiers/no-none-and-none-of

In formal styles, we use none of with a singular verb when it is the subject. However, in informal speaking, people often use plural verbs:
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None of that surprises me.

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Indeed, none of his novels is well shaped or well written.

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None of the products have been tested on animals and all the bottles are recyclable.(informal)

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