Alpo Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 Diagonal cutting pliers. Dikes, or dykes? Microphone. Mic or mike? Micrometer. Mic or mike? Making your engine run faster. Suped or souped? The diminutive when referring to someone as honey. Hun or hon? We all know what the word is. We all pronounce it the same. But how do you spell it?
John Kloehr Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 Diagonal cutting pliers. Dikes, or dykes? Never spelled this Mic Mic souped hon It
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: IT You beat me to IT.
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: IT You beat me to IT
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 1 hour ago, Alpo said: Diagonal cutting pliers. Dikes, or dykes? Microphone. Mic or mike? Micrometer. Mic or mike? Making your engine run faster. Suped or souped? The diminutive when referring to someone as honey. Hun or hon? We all know what the word is. We all pronounce it the same. But how do you spell it? DIagonal Cutters are Dikes. Both microphones and micrometers are Mics A motor vehicle with enhanced performance has been Suped Up (from "super," over or above) I don't think I have ever written the diminutive of "honey," but if I did, it would likely be "hon."
Alpo Posted September 8, 2024 Author Posted September 8, 2024 On another board somebody was talking about diagonal cutting pliers and he wrote it d ykes. I presume that the net nanny on that forum decided that dykes was a derogatory term for a lesbian, and therefore could not be used. As an aside, you are also not allowed to use the diminutive form of the name for the small mammal with a mask and a ringed tail. Apparently coon is a bad word. And you are not even allowed to use the term negro. Anyway. When I read that I thought that his problem was that he had spelled it wrong - that is spelled with an i. Then I looked it up. Both dikes and dykes are correct spellings. And of course that got me thinking about talking into the mic or using the mic to measure something. Usually when I see somebody using the diminutive for honey, in print, they spell it with a u. I presume that's to make sure you understand the sound that is being made. If you spell it with an o, the reader might think it's supposed to sound like the word on. And I frequently see people writing about souping up their car.
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 Hun = Asiatic warrior known for wearing animal skins, prowess on horseback, deadly archery and sword skills and awesome mustaches.
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 28 minutes ago, Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme said: Hun = Asiatic warrior known for wearing animal skins, prowess on horseback, deadly archery and sword skills and awesome mustaches. Sounds just like my hon......ouch!!! Sorry, dear... LL
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 2 hours ago, Alpo said: The diminutive when referring to someone as honey. Hun or hon?
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 2 hours ago, Alpo said: We all know what the word is. We all pronounce it the same. But how do you spell it? I was waiting to get...
DocWard Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 Diagonal cutting pliers. Dikes, or dykes? Growing up, my dad always called them "side-cutters," so that tends to be what I call them. Microphone. Mic or mike? Mic Micrometer. Mic or mike? Dunno. Never gave it any thought Making your engine run faster. Suped or souped? Engine run faster? Usually "thrown rod." The diminutive when referring to someone as honey. Hun or hon? Never gave it much thought, but have usually seen it "hun." We all know what the word is. We all pronounce it the same. But how do you spell it? I-T
Texas Lizard Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 Be very careful where you the first one at...Might have a big problem..... Texas Lizard Some one can get very unhappy with you........I have seen it happen....
Alpo Posted September 8, 2024 Author Posted September 8, 2024 1 hour ago, DocWard said: Diagonal cutting pliers. Dikes, or dykes? Growing up, my dad always called them "side-cutters," so that tends to be what I call them. Yeah, when I was in my late twenties I started hearing people talk about channel locks. My daddy called them water pump pliers, so that's what I always called them and that's what I still call them. But at least now I know what people are talking about when they say channel locks. It confused me greatly when I first heard it.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 3 hours ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: I was waiting to get... Had one of those for years, but mine was wood.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 5 hours ago, Alpo said: Diagonal cutting pliers. Dikes, or dykes? Microphone. Mic or mike? Micrometer. Mic or mike? Making your engine run faster. Suped or souped? The diminutive when referring to someone as honey. Hun or hon? We all know what the word is. We all pronounce it the same. But how do you spell it? Why spell anything that I can say a lot easier and never have to write it down? Let's face it, Dude. You ain't sophisticated to be writing things anyway.
John Kloehr Posted September 8, 2024 Posted September 8, 2024 1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Had one of those for years, but mine was wood. I have one somewhere, I'll see if I can find it.
Pat Riot Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 7 hours ago, Alpo said: Diagonal cutting pliers. Dikes, or dykes? Microphone. Mic or mike? Micrometer. Mic or mike? Making your engine run faster. Suped or souped? The diminutive when referring to someone as honey. Hun or hon? We all know what the word is. We all pronounce it the same. But how do you spell it? Dykes Mike Mic Suped Baby
Will Kane Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 5 hours ago, Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme said: Hun = Asiatic warrior known for wearing animal skins, prowess on horseback, deadly archery and sword skills and awesome mustaches.
Rip Snorter Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 12 minutes ago, Will Kane said: And the Duke hated that film.
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 8 hours ago, Alpo said:
Ozark Huckleberry Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 17 hours ago, Alpo said: Diagonal cutting pliers. Dikes, or dykes? When you're teaching junior high, you spell it, 'side cutters'.
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 I’d write it like I say it, microphone it micrometer, never say or write dikes unless discussing Netherlands or New Orleans.
Alpo Posted September 9, 2024 Author Posted September 9, 2024 N'Yawlins don't have dikes. They have levees.
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 20 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: IT eet (Spanish accent) 🙃
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 2 minutes ago, Alpo said: N'Yawlins don't have dikes. They have levees. and chevees to drive to them 🙃
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 ATOM or ADAM ? ..........Widder.
Texas Jack Black Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 BANANA SPLIT or NANA SPLIT Only Widder really knows. 🍨
DocWard Posted September 9, 2024 Posted September 9, 2024 3 hours ago, Texas Jack Black said: BANANA SPLIT or NANA SPLIT Only Widder really knows. 🍨 Everyone knows it's NANNER SPLIT!
Texas Jack Black Posted September 10, 2024 Posted September 10, 2024 16 minutes ago, DocWard said: Everyone knows it's NANNER SPLIT! Not in my world.🙂
H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 Posted September 10, 2024 Posted September 10, 2024 Diagonal cutting pliers. Amazingly enough, I have never written the word. That said, since I think of the things that hold back the ocean as a dike, I'd call the cutters a dyke. I understand that's unPC now. Microphone is a mic. Micrometer, is also a mic. Making your engine run faster is surprisingly souped. I base this on the fact that souped comes back okay, but suped has a red wavy line under it. The diminutive of Honey is Hon. How do you spell it? I T I watched ZOOM as a kid.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 10, 2024 Posted September 10, 2024 19 hours ago, Texas Jack Black said: Not in my world.🙂 Nor mine.
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