Who decided to excise the e?
Noah Webster.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Feb 03, 2009 2:10:20 pm PST #4895 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Connie Neil - Feb 03, 2009 2:12:22 pm PST #4896 of 30000
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So how come it's stuck around? I wasn't taught to spell color "colour" but I was taught judgement.
Ginger - Feb 03, 2009 2:16:15 pm PST #4897 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I was taught judgment, and I still edit that e out at every opportunity.
amych - Feb 03, 2009 2:17:20 pm PST #4898 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Oooh! Edit cagematch!
Steph L. - Feb 03, 2009 2:23:22 pm PST #4899 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I always put the e in, look at it, take it out, put it in, glare suspiciously at the word from many angles, and then try to use a different word.
When pressed, though, I leave the e in. It looks weird without it.
t edit I also never, EVER know if 'hilarious' has 1 L or 2. Ever. So I use a different word every. single. time.
DebetEsse - Feb 03, 2009 2:24:12 pm PST #4900 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I do whatever makes the red line under the word go away.
Laura - Feb 03, 2009 2:27:40 pm PST #4901 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
DebetEsse beat me to it. And yet there is a red line under her name. But I shall make it go away!
Hil R. - Feb 03, 2009 2:28:24 pm PST #4902 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
An article I'm writing uses the word "cancellation" a whole lot. The spell check on the computer at the office insists that "cancelation" is right and "cancellation" is wrong, contradicting every dictionary I've checked, both American and British. (British says "cancelation" is wrong. American says it's the less-preferred spelling. But the spelling that the British dictionaries say is correct and the American ones say is preferred is the one that that spell check insists is wrong.)
amych - Feb 03, 2009 2:36:47 pm PST #4903 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I find that "add to dictionary" will make the red lines go away on any word.
Cashmere - Feb 03, 2009 2:49:55 pm PST #4904 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
My husband is *this* close to being strangled. I want to crawl into bed and disappear.