I've mentioned my Mormon friend who named her daughter Cayenne (pronounced Kay-Enn) because she saw the name on a map and thought it was pretty?

I can't do another Buffista grammar fight. My scars from the Gerund Wars still sting. (Granted, most of them are due to backchannel harassment by someone who is no longer a Buffista, but still.)

Back channel harassment over gerunds? That's serious!

To me, it is clearly thing. I've never heard think until yesterday.

I need to get out of bed but don't want to. Sammy is still asleep next to me and he is the perfect size for cuddling.

Aw, Sammy.

Thanks for all the compliments on the house! Now we just have to, you know, actually buy it.

Also, I do not want to live in either Nashville or Indianapolis, but I am severely jealous of the price of Kate's house and of my sister's.

Everyone should move to Nashville! Although this house is definitely on the lower end of the market around here, especially for one in such good shape. East Nashville is still up-and-coming, which helps; this is a neighborhood that (as far as we can tell) is pretty close to the tipping point, but not *quite* there yet.

Man, one all day training session and no internet at home and you get so far behind:

it's totally "think" and "pipe"

Apparently the NZ eventing team got arrested for drinking in a non-drinking area.

Here is a much sweeter picture of Toddy and a fan.

Dressage starts today ( Carl Hester of GB is currently in first place)

Pictures from the trot-up which was, I believe, yesterday.

I missed the link to the Kate house! But YAY! So happy for you.

I wondered how over 100 posts could have happened in Natter overnight. I should have known.

Apparently the NZ eventing team got arrested for drinking in a non-drinking area.

My scandal of choice at the Olympics so far has been the badminton: [link]

Nice of badminton to set up their tournament so that it pays to lose in the early rounds.

Billytea, are you telling me that my interpretation is unconvincing, or wrong, or what? I'm not trying to sway you--I'm just describing the truth. You don't have to buy into it--that's merely what the expression means. Your acceptance won't make it any more true, just like your rejection doesn't make it any more false. That's simply what the expression has always meant. And the "thing" expression is an eggcorn, and it doesn't matter how long the posts in defense of "thing" get--still eggcorn, and "think" still original and meaning what I said.

I'm not looking for converts--I mean it when I say I'm confused by why people would defiantly go with something they know is an error. If you want to retcon all sorts of meaning into the error and explain why you feel the original shouldn't have made sense...still a retcon.

ok, also until this conversation, never heard the word eggcorn before.

We say it the way we do because it is the way we have always heard it said and it is an accepted (by most) way of saying the phrase and it has been in use more prolifically then the original phrase. It makes sense to us.

I say "under God" in the pledge of allegiance too. It's not original to the pledge. It does change the meaning of it. I don't actually like it in there, BUT, it is how I learned it, how it sounds right to my brain and how I continue to say it.