I like how the referree one adds a third sense of fair into the meanings of fairest of them all — I recently came to understand how people justifiably find something cringe about it meaning both most attractive and lightest complexioned in a way that equates them.
(Let’s try that again, with the HTML special characters protected.)
About the Mythtickle:
Are the remains of Egyptian Charlie Brown in that jar?
The snake’s speech bubble has a forked tongue!
I love the rhyming of <eye> before <bee> except after <sea>. Except … the snake says: “You spelled <bee> <eye> <bird> <snake> wrong. <eye> before <bee> except after <sea>, dude.” That is, he gave the wrong spelling first. That’s not how it’s usually done.
If someone misspelled the word “pie”, I would say:
“You spelled p-i-e wrong, dude. It’s I before E except after C.”
I wouldn’t say:
“You spelled p-e-i wrong, dude. It’s I before E except after C.”
Jack, you are of course correct. Also worthy of an award for pedantry. Which is not an insult–I’ve received several (virtually, of course)!
Apart from the ordering issue, this comment was totally helpful, as I hadn’t realized to say the hieroglyphs as beeeye and especially sea. The spelling advice is much more cogent when that isn’t taken as squiggles .
Mitch4, I only realized the sea joke when I was composing my reply. My knowledge of hieroglyphs is minuscule—I only know that the squiggles mean water due to the UK TV quiz show Only Connect. Here’s the episode where hieroglyphs are introduced in a breathtaking response to Greek letters being called “pretentious”.
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I like how the referree one adds a third sense of fair into the meanings of fairest of them all — I recently came to understand how people justifiably find something cringe about it meaning both most attractive and lightest complexioned in a way that equates them.
(Let’s try that again, with the HTML special characters protected.)
About the Mythtickle:
Are the remains of Egyptian Charlie Brown in that jar?
The snake’s speech bubble has a forked tongue!
I love the rhyming of <eye> before <bee> except after <sea>. Except … the snake says: “You spelled <bee> <eye> <bird> <snake> wrong. <eye> before <bee> except after <sea>, dude.” That is, he gave the wrong spelling first. That’s not how it’s usually done.
If someone misspelled the word “pie”, I would say:
“You spelled p-i-e wrong, dude. It’s I before E except after C.”
I wouldn’t say:
“You spelled p-e-i wrong, dude. It’s I before E except after C.”
Jack, you are of course correct. Also worthy of an award for pedantry. Which is not an insult–I’ve received several (virtually, of course)!
Apart from the ordering issue, this comment was totally helpful, as I hadn’t realized to say the hieroglyphs as bee eye and especially sea. The spelling advice is much more cogent when that isn’t taken as squiggles .
Mitch4, I only realized the sea joke when I was composing my reply. My knowledge of hieroglyphs is minuscule—I only know that the squiggles mean water due to the UK TV quiz show Only Connect. Here’s the episode where hieroglyphs are introduced in a breathtaking response to Greek letters being called “pretentious”.