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It's a yawl, y'all!

A ketch is a sailboat having two masts, a main and a smaller mizzen stepped forward of the wheel. A yawl has two masts, the mizzen stepped aft of the wheel. Both types share a common means of boarding:


the ketch-yawl ladder…

bye, now! :neener:
 
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Still waiting

" My GF made these......She usually wouldn't have missed those..... And since you have so bluntly pointed those out, she can fix them in like an hour."

We heard that four weeks ago and they're STILL wrong. Just how is that "like an hour?"

Tells time as well as he spells and punctuates..... :rolleyes:
 
Grammer can be debated as "colloquial usage", spelling and use of apostrophes are kind of fixed.
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uh, especially when there is a proper use of its

it's time to go.
the dog is barking because i took its bone.

try a grammar check in word if you don't want to believe me
 
Uh...

it's time to go.
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First letter of a sentence should be a capital.

the dog is barking because i took its bone.
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See above, and "i" alone is always capitalized, and "its" is posessive in this case, so it should be its' .

:D

Mods, please don't close this; this is too much fun...
 
and "its" is posessive in this case, so it should be its' .
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Oh, yeah, just like...

I took mes' bone.
I took wes' bone.
I took yous' bone.
I took hims' bone.
I took hers' bone.
I took thems' bone.
I took whoms' bone?
 
The exception

Its IS the possive form. It's is the contraction for It is.


What gets my goat more than the misuse of your and you're, or the misuse of they're, their and there, is the incorrect use of site and sight. This is a firearms forum. Y'all should know the difference between the sites where we gather to communicate and the sights we use to aim firearms.
 
".....and probably reflects the Scotch-Irish roots ..."

Scotch is a drink, Scots are a race of people in the Northern British Isles.

I believe "Scots" is proper use. The later usage of "Scotch" for the people is in contradiction to earlier use.

Does common misuse become acceptable at some point?
 
Another one that has always bothered me is "try and..." "I'm going to try and do..." It should be, "I'm going to try to do..." If you try AND do it, you did it, you didn't just try.
 
Bang that drum for ALL it's worth1

Bluesbear, why did you not cite some references?

Pet peeve: reference is a NOUN! You can refer to a source or make reference to a source, but you cannot reference a source! GRRRRR!
 
Then explain

REFERENCE books.

Sounds like an adjective as so used.

But I suspect this fetish of "referencing" something is an infection spread by people trying to sound more educated than they are. :scrutiny:
 
I stand corrected... from the New Websters Practical English Handbook:

"The possesive forms of the personal pronouns and the possesive form of the pronoun who are never written with an apostrophe. ... The correct forms to use in order to show possession are the following: my, mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs, whose. Do not place an apostrophe either before or after the s in any of these words."

Well, BluesBear, you made me look it up, and I found it... sigh. I was wrong. Thanks.
 
Oh, yeah, just like...

I took mes' bone.
I took wes' bone.
I took yous' bone.
I took hims' bone.
I took hers' bone.
I took thems' bone.
I took whoms' bone?
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That's FOB talk

Does common misuse become acceptable at some point?
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Only in American English, ever heard tell of a Palmetto Bug.
Here's a clue there ain't no such a thing.

As long as we have morphed into pet peeves( I love it when threads do this), how about
"Do or Die"
It's do AND die, dammit read the stupid poem
 
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That's FOB talk
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No. If you assume that " its' " is the possessive form of "it," it then follows that " hims' " is the possessive form of him. Similarly, if you assume that "it's" is possessive, so too must "him's" be.
 
Congratulations you now speak English as well as my immigrant wife, or she as well as you.
I'm getting confused by all of this.

I'm gonna stick to talking American
 
i feel lucky that i had an english teacher who cared enough to harp on "minor" points like punctuation, in public high school no less. it should be noted that in a venue like this people tend to type how they talk and that's not necessarily a bad thing. even classic literature includes gramatical errors or unusual punctuation in dialogue. you'll also find that people may punctuate in a slightly unorthodox manner to show pauses and emphasis as though they were speaking. further, i might add that there is a big difference between a typo and a spelling error. as for my own disdain of the shift key - i'm mostly just being lazy but ever since reading e. e. cummings i decided that capitalization of the word "i" but not "you" is pretty egotistical, don't you think? another factor that complicates spelling and grammar on this forum is that i suspect a fair number of folks come home after work, crack a beer and start posting. people who know how to speak and spell (HA!, get it?) get to be all thumbs and their posts can be a little cryptic. none of this bothers me all that much. what bothers me is when i see a post saying that they wrote their congresscritter or some journalist about some issue or other and it is obvious that they are incapable of writing clearly. that just makes us all look bad. worst part is that the journalist may get that letter printed so thousands see us as knuckle dragging neanderthals.
 
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