How do YOU spell it?

[Alpo]

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?

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

IT

[Alpo]

[John Kloehr]

Diagonal cutting pliers. Dikes, or dykes? Never spelled this

Mic

Mic

souped

hon

It

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

IT

 

You beat me to IT.

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

IT

 

You beat me to

 

IT  

[Subdeacon Joe]

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]

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]

Hun = Asiatic warrior known for wearing animal skins,  prowess on horseback, deadly archery and sword skills and  awesome mustaches.

[Texas Jack Black]

Is winter here EARLY?

[Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438]

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]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

The diminutive when referring to someone as honey. Hun or hon?

 

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

12 minutes ago, Will Kane said:

And the Duke hated that film.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

8 hours ago, Alpo said:

 

[Ozark Huckleberry]

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]

I’d write it like I say it, microphone it micrometer, never say or write dikes unless discussing Netherlands or New Orleans.

[Alpo]

N'Yawlins don't have dikes. They have levees.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

20 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

IT

eet  (Spanish accent) 🙃

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

2 minutes ago, Alpo said:

N'Yawlins don't have dikes. They have levees.

 

  and chevees to drive to them  🙃

[Widder, SASS #59054]

ATOM or ADAM ?

 

 

..........Widder.

 

 

[Texas Jack Black]

 BANANA  SPLIT  or NANA SPLIT  Only Widder really knows. 🍨

[DocWard]

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]

16 minutes ago, DocWard said:

 

Everyone knows it's NANNER SPLIT!

 Not in my world.🙂

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

 

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]

19 hours ago, Texas Jack Black said:

 Not in my world.🙂

Nor mine. 

[Tex Wilson]

Dyke, Mic, Mic, Souped, Hon.