Bob_in_OKC
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Misspelled words on AK
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Bob_in_OKC
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I am often amazed at how many incorrect apostrophe's show up.
Numistrek09
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Did anyone bother to look at what the second meaning of scroe is??
thilaseen
Super Member
The apostrophe thing cropped up a while ago and IIRC the consensus was that CD's or LP's is incorrect and should be CDs and LPs and so on.
WELL, I've done a little research and checked my copy of Michael Swan's book Practical English Usage and on page 2 I found and I quote....
plurals
an apostrophe (') is sometimes used before the s in the plurals of abbreviations:MP's or MPs; CD's or CDs. ....
Anyway I hope after posting that, that I've crossed all my T's and dotted all my I's or should I say i's?
And yeah, the intergrated one gets to me too.
WELL, I've done a little research and checked my copy of Michael Swan's book Practical English Usage and on page 2 I found and I quote....
plurals
an apostrophe (') is sometimes used before the s in the plurals of abbreviations:MP's or MPs; CD's or CDs. ....
Anyway I hope after posting that, that I've crossed all my T's and dotted all my I's or should I say i's?
And yeah, the intergrated one gets to me too.
2DualsNotEnough
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Anal Retentive.
nickrobotron
una bella tazza di caffe
I always wonder if I should say "KG 3.2's" or "KG 3.2s". I really prefer the apostrophe, but have wondered if it's correct. I feel comfortable saying "Klipschorns" but not "L570s" just because of particular model numbers such as "2250b". Lately I've been saying "L570 speakers", which is killing my literary "voice", if you will. I don't want anyone here thinking I'm too articulate.
I also don't want any mix ups for the sake my own post as well as if someone else searches for a particular model.
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nickrobotron
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Maybe unrelated, but what about MKII, MkII, and MK II? I've thought that maybe it depends on the model, but I've seen people refer to the FF 15 XE MK II (stamped on the original box) as the FF15XE MKII more often. Also, Technics SL-1700MKII and SL-1700 MK II makes searches more difficult. IT DRIVES ME CRAZY.
thisOne
Listen...
Well, according to the Urban Dictionary, next time some excited fellow screams "SCROEEEE" in the title of his 3:00 am post I'm going to have a hard time assuming that his glee is not about a cheap hooker that just came to his door.
Yes!, misspelling of simple words is unbearable.
bowtie427ss
Lunatic Member
Dampening used in place of "damping" seems to occur a lot too.
Silversleep
Super Member
Yup!!!
michaelhigh
mind's eye music
This has to be it, considering that it's actually considered proper usage by the general public now!:yes:
michaelhigh
mind's eye music
This is not only misused here, but nearly everywhere. I attribute this misspelling to pure lazyness. Or trying to conserve energy for some stupid reason...
JoeDotCom
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I know some of us AKers like to pimp our systems.. but i had no idea that SCROE = a scraggly hoe. hahaha!
From an earlier post: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scroe
*BTW: typing "scroe" in/correctly was really tough... I had to look back at the first post that had the word in it. I was like "how do you misspell that again?"
From an earlier post: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scroe
*BTW: typing "scroe" in/correctly was really tough... I had to look back at the first post that had the word in it. I was like "how do you misspell that again?"
