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The Annoyed Man wrote:

UpTheIrons wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:...sort of like that old word for "happy or carefree" which now means you prefer your significant other to have some hair on their back.

"significant other to have some hair on his back." Fixed it for ya.

Of course you're correct. I realized that one at the time I typed it, but I was trying to be deliberately gender neutral, since I thought the joke was even more funny if taken that way.

Yahgotmee.

Unless one's significant other is one of two conjoined siamese twins, in which case it could be their back, if they had only one back.
There, I got it back to gender neutral for you.
I gotcher back, Bro., or is that ... I gots your back?

That person (those persons?) could not be any rational man's significant other. It's hard enough to get my wife to make up her mind some times, without adding a second mind into the picture!

Would marriage be considered polygamy? There might be two heads, but there is only one body.

I'm leaving it at that before I get myself into trouble.

I didn't see it mentioned, but Sale / Sell drives me nuts.

"I've got a <insert item here> for sell..."

"I'm going to sale my car..."

pbwalker wrote:I didn't see it mentioned, but Sale / Sell drives me nuts.

"I've got a <insert item here> for sell..."

"I'm going to sale my car..."

I mentioned it earlier, but I still don't understand it.

I mean, folks getting homonyms wrong, I can just about understand. Their, there and they're do sound alike. But sell and sale don't, not remotely, so even a complete illiterate should know the difference. I wonder if the folks who misuse them when writing do the same when speaking?

Whose / Who's
Its / It's
When someone corrects someone else for using the word Bi-annual, and replaces it with Semi-annual. (I think they mean the same thing)
"Supposebly" is not a word

To tell on myself - I was once giving a presentation to a large audience and unintentionally misspelled the word "accuracy" on one of my slides. The audience caught the irony immediately.

Tregs wrote:Whose / Who's
Its / It's
When someone corrects someone else for using the word Bi-annual, and replaces it with Semi-annual. (I think they mean the same thing)
"Supposebly" is not a word

To tell on myself - I was once giving a presentation to a large audience and unintentionally misspelled the word "accuracy" on one of my slides. The audience caught the irony immediately.

Supposebly! That's the one I've been trying to think of since this thread started. I've heard college graduates use this one.

Tregs wrote:[SNIP]
When someone corrects someone else for using the word Bi-annual, and replaces it with Semi-annual. (I think they mean the same thing)
[SNIP]

semi-annual is twice a year
bi-annual is every two years - (bi-centennial is every two hundred years)

davidtx wrote:

Tregs wrote:[SNIP]
When someone corrects someone else for using the word Bi-annual, and replaces it with Semi-annual. (I think they mean the same thing)
[SNIP]

semi-annual is twice a year
bi-annual is every two years - (bi-centennial is every two hundred years)

Webster says they're the same, but I'm an old guy who probably puts too much faith in Webster.

Tregs wrote:

davidtx wrote:

Tregs wrote:[SNIP]
When someone corrects someone else for using the word Bi-annual, and replaces it with Semi-annual. (I think they mean the same thing)
[SNIP]

semi-annual is twice a year
bi-annual is every two years - (bi-centennial is every two hundred years)

Webster says they're the same, but I'm an old guy who probably puts too much faith in Webster.

Oops, my bad. That will teach me not to check before I post. You are correct, they both mean twice a year. Biennial is every two years. Apparently it is a very common confusion, thus the suggestion to use semiannual instead of biannual in order to avoid the confusion.

Here's a good article on it: http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2009/03/30/g ... -biennial/

My vocabulary has been embiggened tremendously reading these posts. I have to stop now because I bumped my coffee cup and tumped it over. Or is it tumpt?

FWIW, one of my Facebook buddies just posted that today was National Grammar Day (and so it is: http://nationalgrammarday.com/).

davidtx wrote:FWIW, one of my Facebook buddies just posted that today was National Grammar Day (and so it is: http://nationalgrammarday.com/).

Well, tell your Grammar I said Happy Gammar Day. And say Hi to your Grandpar fer me too!!

chartreuse wrote:I mean, folks getting homonyms wrong, I can just about understand....

Homonyms? Isn't that what you make grits out of?

Tregs wrote:

davidtx wrote:

Tregs wrote:[SNIP]
When someone corrects someone else for using the word Bi-annual, and replaces it with Semi-annual. (I think they mean the same thing)
[SNIP]

semi-annual is twice a year
bi-annual is every two years - (bi-centennial is every two hundred years)

Webster says they're the same, but I'm an old guy who probably puts too much faith in Webster.

Webster also says "orient" and "orientate" are the same thing. Hippie, please!

No more Webster for me. I'm sticking with the Hillbilly Dickshunairy.