Which words are "those words"?
Oh, they include a lot of jargon in their glossary -- AD, DP, things like that. I was terribly vague, wasn't I.
And yes, I guess I shouldn't get bent out of shape over actual variant spellings. And I've used both "leanrt" and "et," in covnersation, so I definitely can't get too harsh about variants.
I know of no one who uses "pic," "lens," or "ankle," in conversation.
I use all of these, though I suspect my use of the word "ankle" means something else.
Again, I am shamed for my vagueness. I've used all of those words, too, just not the way Variety uses them.
they include a lot of jargon in their glossary -- AD, DP, things like that. I was terribly vague, wasn't I.
They claim they made all those up too, though.
And on another note entirely, The Muppet Matrix.
I so did
not
need to see
Miss Piggy in skin-tight latex
....
Proactively, "learnt" and "et" are also real spellings.
This is radically off topic, but do you happen to know off the top of your head around when and why things like spelt, dreamt, and learnt morphed (in the US, at least) into spelled, dreamed, and learned?
Signed, has been too lazy to Google this for two years now.
do you happen to know off the top of your head around when and why things like spelt, dreamt, and learnt morphed (in the US, at least) into spelled, dreamed, and learned?
Was it part of that American "let's make spelling make more sense" movement that "corrected" the spelling of 'colour' to 'color', 'metre' to 'meter', etc?
Is it a prescriptive issue? Does anyone have the etymology of the spelling variants?
I actually have no idea. I just know that I've seen "lens" a lot and "lense" never, that I can recall. Which means precisely nothing, etymologically speaking.
Wait... except now "lense" looks okay to me. But it looked so wrong just a second ago! Oh, and now it looks wrong again. I am confused.
Was it part of that American "let's make spelling make more sense" movement that "corrected" the spelling of 'colour' to 'color', 'metre' to 'meter', etc?
I dunno. I don't recall seeing it in the lists of Websterized things.
I only started thinking about it when my mother started sending email.
I don't know, Plei. My guess is either the American version is changed to distinguish from the British (color/colour), or is the more archaic version that was moved away from in Britain (fall/autumn).
Which is really no use.
They claim they made all those up too, though.
I occasionally claim to be the King of the Moon. I think they're both rather spurious claims. But who knows? Either way, there's jargon I hear regularly, and there's Varietyspeak that I don't.
It's quite possibly a distinction that occurs only in my head, and any excuse to justify my irrational hatred of Varietyspeak will do. I can live with that.
