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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: 100 most common... #62453 03/27/02 07:46 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass "I need to renew my driver's licence next month." not in my state! licence is listed as a (chiefly British) variant in US dictionaries -- and that is a U.S. list. http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 100 most common... #62454 03/27/02 07:55 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada Then I beg to humbly point out that your state is WRONG! But this is how language evolves. Advice/advise is another pairing like licence/license and practice/practise. You can take someone's advice when he advises you, or you can ignore it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 100 most common... #62455 03/27/02 08:30 PM Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 A Angel addict Angel addict A Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 License is the verb; licence is the noun. My trusty, never dusty, Webster's says: license n. 1. A legal permit to do something. 2. A written or printed certificate of a legal permit. 3. Unrestrained liberty of action; disregard of propriety. 4. Allowable deviation from an established rule, form, or standard: poetic license. v.t. To grant a license to or for; authorize. It does not list licence what-so-ever, and I have never seen this spelling before today! Even our own wonderful spell check turned licence into license. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 100 most common... #62456 03/27/02 08:54 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 In the late nineteenth century the full cliché developed: He’s the very spit and image of his father, followed by the folk etymology that replaced spit and with spitting (or spittin’ or spitten) image. [wanting to learn -e] tsuwm, are you saying that the phrase originated in error, or that it is deemed erroneous in usage today? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 100 most common... #62457 03/27/02 09:02 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia H hev OP addict OP hev addict H Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 477 Sydney, Australia Miscelleny So, love, are you making it the 101st? And the prize goes to ... Jackie, in a record time of only 6 hrs 5 mins and 11 seconds. [loud cheering-e] Hev Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: folk etymology #62458 03/27/02 09:07 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass ycliu by plugging 'folk etymology' into OneLook to see the slightly different takes on the phrase. here is the OED reading: usually, the popular perversion of the form of words in order to render it apparently significant. http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 100 most common... #62459 03/27/02 09:47 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada My trusty, never dusty, Webster's O God. Why do so many people use Webster's? Get thee to an Oxford! I'd love to hear from the Antipodeans on this one. Is it licence/license down under, or always license? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 100 most common... #62460 03/27/02 10:16 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >O God. Why do so many people use Webster's? 'cuz Webster set us down the road of codifying American English, which is what we speak here, doncha know. http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter . #62461 03/27/02 11:34 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: 100 most common... #62462 03/28/02 02:29 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). 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