# Those things that stop your car are not BREAKS, you moron! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 23, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719 "2009-06-23T14:46:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/21 "2009-06-23T16:25:55Z")
/verbal hijack Regents (REE jents) govern something. Reagents (ree AY jents) are the ingredients of a formula. They are pronounced differently. Are you listening to me, guildies? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/22 "2009-06-23T16:27:45Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > I’ve seen a few people online mis-refer to their car brakes as “breaks” over the years. All of a sudden, this error is everywhere, including at the SDMB! Give us a brake! ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/23 "2009-06-23T16:30:12Z")
> [@Kingspades](#): > > /verbal hijack > > Regents (REE jents) govern something. Reagents (ree AY jents) are the ingredients of a formula. They are pronounced differently. Are you listening to me, guildies? See also: “melee vs. mealy” and “rogue vs. rouge.” Our GM had one hell of a time the first time an Ablative Chitin Girdle dropped. We’ve now decided that for guild purposes it’s pronounced “Uh-BLATE-iv CHIT-in GRID-dul.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/24 "2009-06-23T16:44:56Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > Thats rediculous. Totally fucken rediculous. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/25 "2009-06-23T16:56:27Z")
Don’t get me started on “wreckless driving.” Unlike the your/you’re their/there thing, at least those are completely abstract terms with no visual correlates. So you realize that if you are driving “wrecklessly” that you by definition are likely (tho not 100% certainly) driving carefully so that you _won’t_ get into wrecks? Of course the clincher is that these same people won’t say “Oh yeah, I had a bad reck in my old Jeep in '03.” ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/26 "2009-06-23T17:13:01Z")
_breaks to rubberneck this thread_ ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/27 "2009-06-23T17:15:19Z")
I have seen “trooper” instead of “trouper” about five times in the past week. It must be the books I’m reading, but some copy editors need copy editors. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/28 "2009-06-23T17:15:21Z")
> [@Kingspades](#): > > /verbal hijack > > Regents (REE jents) govern something. Reagents (ree AY jents) are the ingredients of a formula. They are pronounced differently. Are you listening to me, guildies? Not to mention the number of times I have to hear someone on Vent talking about buying healing ‘drots’(‘Draughts’) ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/29 "2009-06-23T17:33:40Z")
Constantly misspelled words make me stabby, too. But why doesn’t it bother the rest of the world? Why does it irritate us so much? I wish I could stop being annoyed by it, 'cuz it sure as hell isn’t going to stop. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/30 "2009-06-23T19:09:02Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Our GM had one hell of a time the first time an Ablative Chitin Girdle dropped. We’ve now decided that for guild purposes it’s pronounced “Uh-BLATE-iv CHIT-in GRID-dul.” How does your GM pronounce “griddle”? GUR-dul? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/31 "2009-06-23T19:26:29Z")
The internet gaffe I tend to hate is “noone”. That is not a word! ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/32 "2009-06-23T19:33:37Z")
I could care less about such inconsequential things. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/33 "2009-06-23T19:34:12Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Not to mention the number of times I have to hear someone on Vent talking about buying healing ‘drots’(‘Draughts’) Are you sure you’re hearing them correctly? “Pots” is often used as a shorthand for potions, but I’ve never heard anyone say “Drots”. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/34 "2009-06-23T19:45:20Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Are you sure you’re hearing them correctly? “Pots” is often used as a shorthand for potions, but I’ve never heard anyone say “Drots”. It’s clearly drots. I play lotro, and healing has two kinds, Draught and Salve(self only or other, and the discussions are like, “How many salves do you have, and how may drots”. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/35 "2009-06-23T19:46:16Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > How does your GM pronounce “griddle”? GUR-dul? He got the “girdle” part right the first time. But the next time the same belt dropped, I wanted to mispronounce every word really loudly on Vent to mock him, and “griddle” was the first thing that came to mind. ETA: Nevermind about the pots/draughts thing. Although, to be fair, “draught” isn’t a very common word. When I was a kid, I always said it in my head as though it rhymed with “fraught,” which it looks like it should. I don’t think I learned it was “draft” until high school or so. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/36 "2009-06-23T19:55:39Z")
Some of my least favourite have been covered… can I add rouge bandits, who have picked a poor choice in camouflage, and those who grab others by their waste (which isn’t the type of thing you should be writing about). ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/37 "2009-06-23T19:58:02Z")
Oh, another one… If you think you\* know how to spell better th **a** n I do, th **e** n you are sadly mistaken. _ **Not the other fucking way around!!!** _ - No, not **you** specifically 😛 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/38 "2009-06-23T20:07:38Z")
> [@myskepticsight](#): > > I really don’t understand a lot of common misspellings and incorrect usages. If I had a nickel for every incorrect “your” I’d be fucking set. After hating the “your”/“you’re” transposition for my entire life, I’m almost at peace with it, although I am on blood pressure medication… ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/39 "2009-06-23T20:11:31Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Constantly misspelled words make me stabby, too. > > But why doesn’t it bother the rest of the world? Why does it irritate us so much? I wish I could stop being annoyed by it, 'cuz it sure as hell isn’t going to stop. Common spelling errors irritate me because I expect most people (at least those capable of using a computer, and the people with whom I work who obviously must have been found competent enough to be hired to work here in the first place) to be at least reasonably educated and be familiar with words that they were taught in the first or second grade. These are not obscure “bonus” vocabulary words that would impress the teacher if used properly, but common, simple words that most of us use on a daily basis, more or less. When such errors become so ubiquitously prevalent that spotting them becomes commonplace and unavoidable, one begins to question the educational standards the schools are held to, whether such standards are being followed or if such standards are even established. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719/40 "2009-06-23T20:13:48Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > The internet gaffe I tend to hate is “noone”. That is not a word! Sure it is. It should be capitalized, though, and accompanied by Herman’s Hermits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-things-that-stop-your-car-are-not-breaks-you-moron/500719.md?page=3)