Does lead rhyme with read?
Yes.
No.
Maybe. Sometimes. It depends.
I hate English. :mad:
LED.
So, C[sub]8[/sub]H[sub]18[/sub] with added Pb(C[sub]2[/sub]H[sub]5[/sub])[sub]4[/sub] would be led gas?
Unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence, “motherfuckers” should not be capitalized. Nor should its abbreviation. The same holds true for the term “melon farmers.”
Only when it’s installed in series with a flux capacitor…
Sentence fragment!
For all intensive purposes, I suspect its not likely to raze a great hue and cry, and few will be phased as you hone in on this triviality.
It depends. Was he measuring in megafarads or millifarads?
I’m noticing a lot of people who write “segway” lately. It’s interesting trying to correct them without seeming like a jerk. I usually use the excuse that I don’t want them to be embarrassed in the future.
I also got a comic writer (who has the right kind of personality) to write “shouldn’t’ve” instead of “shouldn’t of.” It was the type of comic where a lot of the fans were relieved by the change.
The “segway” issue also reminds me of how the movie The Santa Clause resulted in so many people misspelling the jolly old elf’s name.
And hmmm… what’s the past tense of “plead”?
You mean “human cry”, of course.
You are correct, of course. I had thought the word was “hew”, for some odd reason.
Those pants are out of style.
Oh, I get it! You guys are fucking with me. The entomology according to Wikipedia is: “It is possible that the term is an Anglicization via Anglo-French of the Latin hutesium et clamor, meaning “a horn and shouting”.[2] Other sources indicate that it has always been a somewhat redundant phrase meaning an outcry and cry, though such “redundancy” is a feature of the legal doublet. “Hue” appears to come from the Old French huer, which means “to shout”, and “cry” from Old French crier (“to cry”).”
not sure I would trust that until they debug it
The story I’ve always heard is that Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, et al., went with “Led” precisely because they didn’t want people to pronounce the first word of their band name that other way (don’t know for sure if the story is true but that’s what I’ve always heard. . .Okay, fine - the only place I’ve ever heard that is from a very good friend of mine. But he’s a mechanical engineer these days and I’ve always found him to be very truthful so unless/until shown otherwise I have no reason to not believe it).
Good rant. My university-level students do this all the time. Even after I correct it in their papers, they keep doing it.
I understand that the irregularities of the English language can sometimes be a little frustrating, but it’s really not that hard to get it right.
Only “a little”? I’m a native speaker of English and I get frustrated with the irregularities of our fine language all the time! (sometimes makes me wish that English had some of the diacritical marks - in particular, accent marks - that are prominent in other languages - the very ones that Bill Bryson once wrote that “English is thankfully free of.”)
Irregularity is a feature of language development. All languages have odd features that do not quite match up with their broader symmetry. I suspect that it is a valuable feature that serves a sort of noise-reduction kind of function.
The past tense of Lead is Led
What leads you to that conclusion?