"A taught chassis","a flair of revs","a heard of cows", ...
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samoht said:
Dickie Meaden's otherwise excellent evo piece on the Aston Martin Victor was punctured by two - 'embarrassed at my gaff' and 'every flair in revs'. The 'taught' chassis came up in a PH article lately, and a 'heard' of animals elsewhere.
If I parked an AM Victor at my place, I'd probably be embarrassed by my gaff.Desiderata said:
I'm maybe too generous but I think that rather than human mistakes being missed by spellcheckers, most tend to be spellcheckers' overenthusiastic attempts to correct proper spelling by humans of rarer words.
Yes, I think that can be a factor. I know mine seems to have a real thing for buggering up its and it's, seemingly without being consistent.
timbo999 said:
'in stead' instead of instead?.. Sorry couldn't resist.
That's embarrassing! hungry_hog said:
I worked with someone at one of the large Banks who would describe (in written form) a GUI (graphical user interface) as a 'gooey'
She was a contractor on a huge rate, my manager rather crudely suggested she only had two things going for her
That reminds me of the gif v jif debate. Was it ever decided once and for all?She was a contractor on a huge rate, my manager rather crudely suggested she only had two things going for her
hungry_hog said:
I worked with someone at one of the large Banks who would describe (in written form) a GUI (graphical user interface) as a 'gooey'
She was a contractor on a huge rate, my manager rather crudely suggested she only had two things going for her
So did he say that to her face or did he WIMP out of it? She was a contractor on a huge rate, my manager rather crudely suggested she only had two things going for her
beambeam1 said:
That reminds me of the gif v jif debate. Was it ever decided once and for all?
If it's anything like the Linux / Line-ux debate then it will never go away. Linus Torvalds even released a sound clip of him saying "My name is Linus and I pronounce Linux as Linux" and people still insisted he said it wrong. Don't get me started ...oh , go on then.
'Sat' instead of 'sitting' should be a capital offence , as should spelling 'Miura' as 'Muira' .
There's an ocean of cliches to deploy - 'rifle bolt gearchange', 'fast road use' (WTF ) , 'vice (often mis -spelled 'vise') like grip of the Recaros ', 'sniffing out' apexes ( why never the correct 'apices' eh ? )
And how some journalists love to find a new term and never miss an opportunity to use it in their (cliche alert) deathless prose - 'roll on acceleration ' (or 'acceleration' as it is more commonly known ) , 'rotation ' (used to mean spin , now means turn ) , 'mechanical grip' (as if 99% of road cars had any other sort) etc
The endless Americanisms - 'meet with ' , 'inside of ', 'co-worker' , 'likely' (for 'probably '), 'turn' (for corner) and (retch ) 'get go'. Such usage is fine in Turkey Scratch , Arkansas , but it is just dire in Milton Keynes.
Bloody cliches -avoid 'em like the plague . Bugger.
'Sat' instead of 'sitting' should be a capital offence , as should spelling 'Miura' as 'Muira' .
There's an ocean of cliches to deploy - 'rifle bolt gearchange', 'fast road use' (WTF ) , 'vice (often mis -spelled 'vise') like grip of the Recaros ', 'sniffing out' apexes ( why never the correct 'apices' eh ? )
And how some journalists love to find a new term and never miss an opportunity to use it in their (cliche alert) deathless prose - 'roll on acceleration ' (or 'acceleration' as it is more commonly known ) , 'rotation ' (used to mean spin , now means turn ) , 'mechanical grip' (as if 99% of road cars had any other sort) etc
The endless Americanisms - 'meet with ' , 'inside of ', 'co-worker' , 'likely' (for 'probably '), 'turn' (for corner) and (retch ) 'get go'. Such usage is fine in Turkey Scratch , Arkansas , but it is just dire in Milton Keynes.
Bloody cliches -avoid 'em like the plague . Bugger.
Edited by coppice on Sunday 20th June 07:47
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