Grammar Nazi
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"7 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Child Actors"...
Look, I know a child when I see one.
Look, I know a child when I see one.
Yeah well...fortunately the medic isn't that dumb, although these days you WOULD have to ask.
I once treated a guy who ate it but not diarrhea. He ate it in the solid form and altho it sounds funny at first it was actually a sad case. Probably one of the more depressing ones I treated during the intern I had to do.
I don't even know how to pronounce the word phthisis. I'll have to ask the only good source I have for words and their meaning: Andrew, my British friend who works for Oxford English Dictionary.
Actually if people knew what goes into making dictionaries and the work he does as a lexicographer and etymologist, they wouldn't be so quick to think one way of spelling something is the only way to do it.
He led the team of people who outlawed the 'i before e' rule because there were "too many exceptions to teaching it that way."
He said "the 'i before e except after c' rule has so many exceptions it's hardly worth having as a rule."
And he's a person who's completely comfortable with rules. Not like me, who has to know why they exist and generally don't want to follow them too closely. It's my impish side.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I am a vicious vocabulary viper (Got the very first one wrong and screwed up on "lubritorium")!
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Good job! You too, Deej!I am a vicious vocabulary viper (Got the very first one wrong and screwed up on "lubritorium")!
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
(I must admit - a couple were actually lucky guesses)
(When there are only two choices you have a 50:50 chance)
I hadda guess on a third of them.(I must admit - a couple were actually lucky guesses)