You'd better hope so, especially dogs.

I see you found the old post. Well, maybe it's not the end of civilization and just one guy using three different Cellar accounts.

Of course, back in the old days, mistakes like that could get you a switching from the schoolmistress, with her hair in a tight bun....and her cheeks all flushed and......http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

Today, I signed a commitment warrant for a woman who wrote that her son had "tryed to cute my throuathe."

I finally figured it out, and her son really was crazy, but the whole idea of her being barely able to express herself in written English was more frightening than her son's behavior.

Well, another explanation would be that the woman was 300 years old. In the 1700's there were almost no dictionaries and words legitimately had different spellings.

I visited Franklin's Post Office and exhibit and reading the samples of writing there required some translation.

I honestly don't think this lady was having a purfuit of happineff moment.

The whole f/s thing made it tough to read some of the manuscripts there. Think about how tough it must have been visiting a brothel back then and trying to figure out exactly what they were offering on the price list for 5 shillings.http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

:rotflol:

I always loved that Stan Freberg bit, but the opportunities to use it in conversation are few and far between, even for me.

I thought that he was in that company...

SCENE CLEAN - with their mascot - The Grim Sweeper.

Real company.
Cleans up murder, suicide, accident, ect. scenes.
Better than having the family pick pieces of brain off the wall.
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Back to the origin of the thread, I used to work in a hardware store, and I got the entire staff pronouncing the word as -
"Al-u-min-i-um". 5 separate sounds.
It was great watching the purchasing agent place an order.
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"Massive two tits." Massachusetts.

But, of course, "I won't cum in your mouth" is often mispronounced as "Oops".

I know someone who does the crime scene clean up gig in one of the Carolinas. There's a lot of money in that.

I hate when people say try "and" do something. You try "to" do something, not try "and".

How do you pronounce a sentence like, "It isn't going to matter one way or the other?"

I'm horrible about diction in some cases -- when I say that, it sounds like "Iddingonma'er one wayathothr".

If I try to pronounce it correctly, I don't like the way all the "s" and "th" sounds feel in my mouth -- it makes my teeth itch.

Neuroses, I've got a few.

I've never been sure if the expression is "It isn't going to matter one way or the other?" or "It isn't going to matter one way or another?". I'm not even sure there is a difference meaning between the two, except that maybe the first implies that there are only two 'ways' and the second implies that there are 'more than one'.

The question mark is probably wrong, however, if it is a statement. However, according to this link, it is grammatically correct to place a question mark on an interrogative statement.

This goes to show that -

A) I fact check before posting on the Cellar.
B) Even guys with English degrees forget or never bothered learning all of the rules.
C) The first rule of 'proper English grammer' is that there are too many exceptions to rules. In the end, punctation is more about conveying inflection or pace than applying strict structure.

E. E. Cummings was right.

I have trouble when speaking i think it comes from my father who was a stutterer.
If i have to say two words together sometimes i get the second letter of the second word mixed into the second letter of the first word. Its very frusterating.

Examples:

"Forest Floor" becomes "Florest Floor"
"Sylvester Stallone" becomes "Stylvester Stalone"

And mishandled homonyms are something RichLevy and I agree on: solecisms are bad. Native English speakers do not have an excuse for mistaking your for you're, nor to and too [make yore]. I remember a real groaner of a bit of substandard writing I saw on a little sign in a military building I worked in at Misawa Air Base: "you'r" the poor SOB wrote. :thepain3: Charles Strunk and E.B. White are spinning in their graves... end for end.

Loose/Lose aren't even homonyms. Perhaps the explanation is that "loose" is really a typo?

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Don't get me started on the ignoramuses who don't decline their pronouns as English should, and in all seeming innocence deliver themselves of phrases like "between her and I" -- in real English, pronouns have a predicate case, an objective form, dammit! "Wanna be perfect, like I?" Where were these people hiding during English class?