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Actually, technically..... cement is the dry powder mixture of limestone and clay and whatever else they put in it - CONCRETE is the stuff that cures - a mixture of cement, sand, gravel, water and a wee dram of Scotch for flavouring... (or maybe not).

Have a look at this for some interesting stuff about cement :

Target "tar-get" Target.

RobG (the Aussie one) Who hates ALL cats

It's usually pronounced PEW-ma here - could just be the lazy Australian way, though....

RobG (the Aussie one)

mid-twenties,

THAT is one of my "pet peeves" - people, especially newspeople who call concrete "Cement". Cement is an ingredient of concrete as mentioned.

There. That feels better!

BB in Canada

in article snipped-for-privacy@news01.west.earthlink.net, Mark Schynert at snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net wrote on 12/12/03 5:04:

I can not spell.I can build bridges, blow things up, purifie water( with the correct equipment) ,dig gun,morter,missle emplacements, mend my Landrover and my car BUT sometimes I can not spell simple words like was . I am not dumb but sometimes words just look wrong when correctly spelt.

Rory Manton This Royal Engineer can not spell.

Whew! It appears some other folks in RMS-land might need a physic as much as I do! *grin* For those who've mentioned their experience in using 'join' as a noun, I will defer to you though my Oxford American Dictionary has no such listings. Listed are five definitions for the word, all being verbs. Under 'joint', the definition entry is: "a place where two things are joined"; that's what I was going for. Perhaps this is similar to the old Thorndike-Barnhart dictionary I used in grade school. 'Terrific' was defined as "to instill terror" and there were no definitions putting the word in a good light... Perhaps there's been some 'meaning flux' going on here... FWIW, I've read every post on this and agree with *all* other poster's peeves. I've seen them all and still wince when I read them though I'm pretty sure I can spot a bad spelling job vs. outright literary butchery from a good distance. Bad spellers are not to be taken to task, misusers of the language are - Benny Hill being one wonderful exception; his German was a hoot... Also FWIW, for me, it's: dee-kal poo-muh I *ask* questions I agree that real cement cures

That's about the lot of it, I think. Party on!

Frank Kranick

Francis X. Kranick, Jr. wrote:

in article snipped-for-privacy@uofs.edu, Francis X. Kranick, Jr. at snipped-for-privacy@uofs.edu wrote on 12/12/03 9:08 AM:

Well, there are plenty of dictionaries available right here on the 'net. Just use Google. For print dictionaries I have one (Websters New World Dictionary) from 1973 that was my daughter's and it does say that Join can be a noun. For current American English it's certainly not the preferred usage but it's not incorrect.

Frank you may just have to grit your teeth!

Milton

Here's another pair that folks tend to misuse: it's and its

it's: contraction of it is, for example "See that model, it's mine"

its: possessive form of the word it, as in "I saw that new kit, did you read its review?"

Rob Gronovius Visit my motor pool in the

Grit teeth? Knuckle under? Make do?!?

Must...

control... impulses...

Conformity! Yes - perfection!

NOOOOoooooo!!!! Aaaaagggghhhh!!!! (runs down the street like hair is on fire...)

Frank (suffering a meltdown) Kranick

Decal "that little piece of shit that just tore". Decal

Here's one I see all the time, including in many newspapers: "commerical" for "commercial".

John Hairell ( snipped-for-privacy@erols.com)

OK, since we're all being curmudgeonly ...

"definately" sorry it's definitely "My Bad" Your bad what? Bad Hair? Bad Breath? Attitude? Education? Explain please.

Oh, twaddle ... I don't feel like thinking about it any more.

Dean

It's not listed as a noun in my American Heritage Dictionary either, but it is listed in my Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, and on dictionary.com .

My current spellingological pet peeve, passive voice notwithstanding, is people who confuse "lose" with "loose". I'm amazed at how many wargamers write about "loosing" a game. What a bunch of loosers.

Someone already mentioned those who get "moral" and "morale" mixed up. It was really funny when a neophyte game designer on one of these newsgroups wrote a rather long message explaining the moral rules of his new wargame rules. If he'd actually meant what he'd written, the game in question probably would have been a lot more interesting!

DLF

Are you refering to an "Upper Colonic" ?

As in Professional Upper Colonic Administrator?

Oxmoron1

Magazines?

That would be Fine Scale Modeler and which others? We let the British and French produce several good titles while we can't keep more than one going.

Car modeling and railroad modeling being an exception.

Tom

Ron:

Spell checkers are wonderful things ( I have Netscape 4.7, which includes one) but they won't catch that kind of mistake.

Bill Shuey