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Off the web a few moments ago:

"BAS Healthcare! - West Virginia
hospital, 173 bed acute care facility. Comfortably nestled in beautiful mountains and at the crossroads of the Appilations, our community is big on nature and...
Sponsored by PhysicianJobBoard.com - 4 days ago"

Reckon they meant Appalachians?

A couple of years ago noticed a poster hanging in an elevator of a large hospital group based out of St Louis that said "lightening" fast with a "lightning" bolt in the background. The poster was touting their Quality Assurance process.
 
I keep the Merriam online dictionary shortcut on my desktop. I know I misspell now and then and my spell check doesn"t always know what I mean so I go to the dict now and then.
 
Since you brought it up,is seasonable a word? Or is it just seasonal?
One of the weather idiots on the TV likes to say "seasonable" and even had it written out on the screen one morning. I hadn't paid a lot of attention to what he was saying until he spelled it out. Now it about drives me nuts!
 
My biggest beef right now is...

NEEDS *something*ED.

Example: Needs fixed.

It's spreading like a disease. At first I only heard/read it once in a while and chalked it up to a casual mistake. However, I now see it and hear it in everyday conversation.

It's, "Needs TO BE fixed," or, "Needs fixING."
 
It's, "Needs TO BE fixed," or, "Needs fixING."
I agree. But I don't expect to see any improvement. Just my opinion.
 
What I find interesting is the attitude change over the last 60 years. In my youth, people with limited education and therefore flawed spelling and grammar were somewhat embarrassed by it and sought to do better.

Today, in that same situation, the lack of knowledge is often worn as a badge of honor. It is cool to slaughter our own language.

Many of these same people do not realize how it marks them and holds them back in the job market, in business and in social settings.

Interesting to hear someone on a talk radio show call in to say "why them illegal forners ain't never even learnt howda speak right proper American". Is that ironic? A difficult word.
 
Randy, it might be a regional pronunciation from where ever the guy came from. One of the guys that I worked with would call a margin trowel a "marginal" trowel. "Hand me yer marginal trowel", he'd say. I never got tired of hearing old Charley say that, in fact, I kinda looked forward to it. And then poor George Bush would say "nucular", which is the way I always heard it pronounced. After I heard an egg head making fun of him, I looked it up and found that I had pronounced it wrong my entire life so far. When we were kids, we'd have those stinking civil defense drills in school, then head back to the classroom where the teacher would solemnly intone the certainty of a slow and painful death from nucular fallout.
 
"Auto correct quit funking with my curse words you mother fork lifter"

Some of your grammar abnormalities come from previous occupations, I worked Aircraft & Munitions Maintenance in the Air Force, It's a Broke aircraft or maybe even "hard Broke". Some regional if you're from or spent much time in Wisconsin a bubbler is the thing in the hall that you drink from (water fountain to the rest of the world).
 
You mean spell check is your friend and enemy-I'm not the best at spelling, (much better at math, hence I'm a Civil Engineering Major not an English Major), but there are times spell check doesn't work- Allis-Chalmers for some reason spell check thinks is wrong when I in fact spell it correct.
 
Ya,I just try to reply to Harv in reasonably simple and correctly spelled Swedish. I thought that was what he was going for but just wasn't very good at.
 
Then there are a few here that use WHERE for WERE and others reverse it. Then there are the TOO, TWO, and TO misuses.......
Mostly, I just pass over those mistakes, but sometimes I have to read and RE-read a post to get what the author is trying to express.

I remember that I knew a guy that was a highly educated engineer for Boeing. Before every "S" he would put an apostrophe. I suggested that it made him look uneducated (to an outsider that did not know him). His answer was "they know what I am telling them." In other words, not only did he not care that he was using incorrect punctuation, but also refused to correct it.

THE most misused punctuation mark in the entire English language is the APOSTROPHE!!!! This punctuation mark has limited CORRECT usage. It signifies the POSSESSIVE case of a noun. Such as "the cow's tail" or "Joe's car" or something similar. Also the apostrophe is used to indicate missing letters as in a contraction - e.g. don't, won't, haven't, wasn't, etc.
Apostrophe should NOT be used in plural case unless it indicates plural POSSESSIVE case. Example: The Smiths' house was vacant last week.

Ok, rant over.....bet it doesn't sink in <grin>!
 
Kinda like the way some people from good families and a proper upbringing go out of their way to be crude,cruel and socially unacceptable so they can "proudly" call themselves rednecks.
 
What, you never make "misteaks".

I miss steaks, with the economy the way it is I can't afford them. LOL!


:>)
 
Randy:

According to the Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary (Unabridged) - Yes, "seasonable" is a proper word.

seasonable, a. 1. opportune; that comes, happens, or is done at the right time; as, a seasonable supply of rain. 2. suitable to or usual for the time of year. Syn. - opportune, timely, fit, convenient.


Doc :>)
 
STILL That is the word that gets me going more than any lately. The only way I like to hear it is when Bill sings his song.

People put it at the end of a sentence and that just does not sound correct to me. Example, he got out of his car and the engine was running still.
 
If that's the definition,I wouldn't say he uses it right then. He talks about "seasonable" temperatures. I don't know how temperatures can be seasonable when he clearly means seasonal. Unless you use it as a synonym for timely,which still means seasonal in my never to be humble opinion. Timely maybe if you have hay to dry,but I don't think the little fella has the first clue what that's all about.
 
jimg, I"m with you there. For most, it would be best to remove the apostrophe key from their computer. I friend posted earlier about her new litter of puppies. She spelled it "puppy"s". Then there"s my favorite John Deere terms- "side council" and "syngro transmission".
 
I work through most of it on the forum. After all, we're tractor guys, not English majors. However, the newspapers I read on a daily basis must employ people who only know "spell check" which can't distinguish the difference between "sight" and "site", etc. There must be a better way!
 
That is just a little Pennsylvania Dutch....

Throw the horse over the fence some hay.

Throw papa down the stairs his hat.

Come a once over here...
 
Do us immigrants get a bit of slack on the spelling mistakes?
I mean,..i never had lessons in English, i just learned it from reading books and news papers and the TV and by trial and error.
I'll never get good at it but as long as people understand what i write I'll be happy. :wink:
 
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