The DVXuser Correct Grammer Thread - Kelsey or English !

GenJerDan said:
Regardless of your feelings, that's one way new words come into being.

Irregardless will probably become legitimate sooner or later.
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Well, Wordweb already spits this out:

Adverb: irregardless
Regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously
 
Also

Definitely. Not "definatly"

Our film, not "are" film.

You're going. NOT "your" going.
Better yet just say You are

and...

Indubitable is a word, undoubtedly different from "undoubtable".
 
GenJerDan said:
That's called metathesis. Very common. And you use words that have gone through the process quite often.

How do you pronounce "comfortable"? Most people will say "comfterble". That's another word going through the process. (Oh. Yeah. "through" is another of those words...used to be 'thurh')

Others that eventually started being spelled the way people pronounced them.

"Third"
"Bird"
"Dirt"
"Fright"

"Iron" (probably the most common one that went through a pronunciation change without the change in spelling)


Language is SO much fun. :)
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Don't forget "OFF-ten" for "often," instead of "offen."
 
-zach- said:
Belief is spelled weird.
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Yes, it is spelt weird. I was once picked up for my spelling of colour and when I tried to explain the phenomena of British English I was given a "There's the door mate".

What annoys me as much as poor English, are people who strive only to use the most complex sentence structure and words when explaining something. Just get to the bloody point.
 
Well, after reading this thread, I feel like I need to pick up a book on grammar. Any recommendations? I would like to think my grammar is ok, but it could improve.
 
Oooh, ncje brings up another one for "i before e, except as in ay": weird. So there's height, sleight, and weird that don't conform...
 
'"I before E
Except after C,
Unless pronounced A
As in 'neighbor' or 'weigh'"

Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules!
Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools!
Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions
Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions:

We were seized by a feeling
For fleeing on the ceiling
To a leisurely meal
With Keith, Sheila, and Neil

We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins
Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines
Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins
Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes

Wherein we're canoeing to a new sovereign state
While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate
And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king
Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring.

Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick
Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic
And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch
We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch.

So I before E
Except after C
Unless pronounced A?
False decreeing, I say!

©1995 by Jef Raskin
It contains, I think, 51 exceptions to the usual rule.'
 
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