Cheesy breathing cats...

looksee

Ok, let's get a few of these sorted out:

It's bated breath not baited breath. It has to do with holding your breath (abated breath), it has nothing to do with cats eating cheese and breathing on mice.

It's toe the line not tow the line. Its from darts / stage directions / military anywhere else where you are given a line to stand against to have you in the right place.

It's moot point not mute point. Moot means debatable, doubtful, mute means silent, unable to speak.

And then there's quite and quiet. Quite a nice day. A very quiet sound. The first is pronounced I, the second is pronounced I-eh.

Thank you for your attention

mrcheez

Quite you

verycool

mrcheez wrote: »

Quite you

Fare play! :pac:

Your making some valid points their.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

And it's on tenterhooks, not tender hooks; and give someone short shrift, not short shift.

dxhound2005

There easy, a shoe-in for me.

James Bond Junior

They're their, prolly bess knot too get pacificlly annoyed, you no?

wexie

yeah yeah we know, not like it's rocket surgery like

:pac:

dxhound2005

This is turning into a pantomine.

wexie

Ximena Sour Pancake wrote: »

and give someone short shrift, not short shift.

Don't mind a short shift myself though

This Fat Girl Runs

Awe, this is so helpful. Thanks!

looksee

looksee wrote: »

Ok, lets get a few of these sorted out:

Its bated breath not baited breath. It has to do with holding your breath (abated breath), it has nothing to do with cats eating cheese and breathing on mice.

Its toe the line not tow the line. Its from darts / stage directions / military anywhere else where you are given a line to stand against to have you in the right place.

Its moot point not mute point. Moot means debatable, doubtful, mute means silent, unable to speak.

It's, not its

B0jangles

Language evolves and changes, there's no point in being pendantic about it.

B0jangles

B0jangles wrote: »

Language evolves and changes, there's no point in being pendantic about it.

Pedantic.

porsche boy

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote:

It's, not its

It is.

verycool

porsche boy wrote: »

It is.

Eye!

Rubberchikken

Aw i thought it was going to be cute cheesy cat videos.
Oh well:)

looksee

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

It's, not its

Ooops!

B0jangles

Deleted User wrote: »

Pedantic.

*trap sprung*

whisky_galore

looksee wrote: »

Ok, lets get a few of these sorted out:

Its bated breath not baited breath. It has to do with holding your breath (abated breath), it has nothing to do with cats eating cheese and breathing on mice.

Its toe the line not tow the line. Its from darts / stage directions / military anywhere else where you are given a line to stand against to have you in the right place.

Its moot point not mute point. Moot means debatable, doubtful, mute means silent, unable to speak.

And then there's quite and quiet. Quite a nice day. A very quiet sound. The first is pronounced I, the second is pronounced I-eh.

Thank you for your attention

Let's, not lets.

B0jangles

B0jangles wrote: »

*trap sprung*

+1

Are Am Eye

Alot of good ones,

padd b1975

Grate tread....

dxhound2005

Takes me back to the halycon days of proper English.

moonage

looksee wrote: »

It's toe the line not tow the line. Its from darts / stage directions / military anywhere else where you are given a line to stand against to have you in the right place.

There should be no spaces before or after the slashes.

When one can speak and write proper the world's your lobster.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

moonage wrote: »

There should be no spaces before or after the slashes.

When one can speak and write proper the world's your lobster.

The world's your ointment.

ArnoldJRimmer

I'm on tender hooks to find out whats going to happen next in this thread

Malayalam

Recently I've been having some trouble with ent and ant (very embarrassing)

It's independent yet elegant.
It's persistent therefore relevant.
It's observant to be absorbent.

I'm reluctant to be provident.
So be vigilant or consistent.
But it's confident and confidant.
(And that's not a variant,
Unlike ascendent and ascendant.)


Be vigilant and observant, once it slips it's virulent.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Commonly-Confused-Suffixes-ant-vs-ent.htm

per aspera ad astra

Bear* in mind, 'mute' and 'moot' are phonetically different – so that one's a bit of mute point really...

per aspera ad astra

Malayalam wrote: »

Recently I've been having some trouble with ent and ant (very embarrassing)

I do this two...

Malayalam

per aspera ad astra wrote: »

I do this two...

Phew, that's a releaf.

Roger Hassenforder

Oh how we used to laugh in labs, when someone said "absorbent" instead of "adsorbent", or visa versa

Hillarious

Kermit.de.frog

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

It's, not its

Roger Hassenforder

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

I'm on tender hooks to find out whats going to happen next in this thread

Ok, I had to Google that one.
Chapeau

moonage

Malayalam wrote: »

It's independent yet elegant.
It's persistent therefore relevant.
It's observant to be absorbent.

I'm reluctant to be provident.
So be vigilant or consistent.
But it's confident and confidant.
(And that's not a variant,
Unlike ascendent and ascendant.)

Bob Dylan wrote great lyrics in the 1960s.

Yester

It's a moo point.

dxhound2005

Yester wrote: »

It's a moo point.

So my Friends tell me.

wexie

Malayalam wrote: »

Recently I've been having some trouble with ent and ant (very embarrassing)

Try to read this out loud :

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité (a Dutch man oddly enough)

EDIT : oh and the poem is called : The Chaos

gozunda

porsche boy wrote: »

It is.

It's those, not them

dxhound2005

A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!

Malayalam

wexie wrote: »

the poem is called : The Chaos

very good

RhubarbCrumble

Could HAVE
Should HAVE
Would HAVE

NOT

Could OF
Should OF
Would OF

grindle

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Could've
Would've
Should've

NOT

Could HAVE
Should HAVE
Would HAVE

NOR
Could OF
Should OF
Would OF

Fixed.

gozunda

Malayalam