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#331802 - 02/04/06 10:03 PM Re: Marquee misused [Re: West Peterson]
novaman Offline
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Registered: 06/11/00
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Loc: Mebane, NC, USA
West, I saw a link to a spelling quiz for words that are commonly misspelled. I got 13 out of 15 correct. 2nd guessed myself out of those two right answers.


spelling quiz
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#331803 - 02/06/06 10:07 AM Re: Marquee misused [Re: novaman]
West Peterson Offline
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Registered: 04/28/04
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I took the test, but when I hit the button "see results," a blank page came up. I kept hitting it with the same results. I'm sure it's because I smoked through the test at such lightning speed and with such accuracy that it pretty much broke the website.
West
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#331804 - 02/06/06 10:28 AM Re: Marquee misused [Re: West Peterson]
R W Burgess Administrator Offline
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Right West! I've seen you spell!

I got two wrong.
The wife got 6 wrong, going to send her back to school.

Wayne
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#331805 - 02/06/06 05:28 PM Re: Marquee misused [Re: R W Burgess]
mike burgess Offline
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Registered: 07/11/04
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Loc: VA
Wow,
If he got 2 wrong that means I need to start going over my spelling I got 3 wrong.

Besides, I think he may have an error in his writting
maybe he meant 3 right.

Mike
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#331806 - 02/06/06 05:52 PM Re: Marquee misused [Re: mike burgess]
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Writting? Writting? You can go back to school when your Mom does Son!

Been on my computer again, Huh?

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#331807 - 02/07/06 11:20 AM Re: Marquee misused [Re: R W Burgess]
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Ok, time to pack it up and save the batteries for Philly. Lookin forward to a great weekend and some quality time with all the DFrs there. As fur as spellin goes, Sue was an English major, so she gets a look at all my formal stuff. You guys get my informal stuff, and aside from knowing what a Marque is, here's a couple of others that get messed up -

Lecturn vs Podium - the podium is somethin the conductor stands on when the guys in the band jam. The lecturn is something that Wayne will use at Philly to make his speech. (or is that a "pulpit?").

And here's a biggie to me - my Dad was an INSURANCE salesman for many years and he taught me the difference between ENSURE and INSURE. Of course now that you can drink the stuff there are added dimensions to the problem, but you get the idea!
Terry
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#331808 - 02/07/06 12:39 PM Re: Marquee misused [Re: Terry Bond]
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I thought the lecturn was where you went to do #1
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#331809 - 02/13/06 10:40 PM Re: Marquee misused [Re: West Peterson]
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no,no,no, that was the guy in the movie with Jody Foster -
Terry
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#331810 - 05/23/07 01:38 PM Re: Marquee misused [Re: West Peterson]
West Peterson Offline
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Bringing this back to the top, as I'm still seeing "marquee" being used as an automotive term.
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#331811 - 05/24/07 09:05 AM Re: Marquee misused [Re: West Peterson]
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Loc: Detroit, MI - the home of Pack...
Other egregious English language items often mangled in the hobby:

"Duel cowl"--should be "dual cowl" a duel is a sometimes fatal contest usually brought about by romantic entanglements involving third parties, dual signifies two of something, or something that comes in twos.

"break cylinder"--should be "brake cylinder"

If the writer resides in the Detroit area we often see "worked at Ford's" or "worked at Chrysler's", that is still heard in speech in the area.

No one can agree on whether a station wagon or convertible bodied car with a wood exterior is a "Woodie" or a "Woody" (I prefer "woody")

A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.


"spell check is not context check"



More later
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#331812 - 05/24/07 03:19 PM Re: Marquee misused [Re: mrpushbutton]
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Registered: 07/25/02
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Loc: South Central Pa.
I let my dog Phideaux check my spelling.
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#331813 - 05/24/07 10:02 PM Re: Marquee misused [Re: mrpushbutton]
Moepar Offline
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Loc: Nebo, NC
Quote:

Other egregious English language items often mangled in the hobby:

"Duel cowl"--should be "dual cowl" a duel is a sometimes fatal contest usually brought about by romantic entanglements involving third parties, dual signifies two of something, or something that comes in twos.

"break cylinder"--should be "brake cylinder"



Round these parts, "duel" cowl=playing chicken so it really can be a sometimes fatal contest. And "break" cylinder is the broken version of brake cylinder, and may be the reason the duel was fatal. And with that, it is past my bedtime so I'm checking out...
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