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.