AN ALLY!!! ::CLINGS LIEK YES:: And look! Some other people in the poll do agree with us and it is not a large percentage but it is some and we will SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND RULE THE WORLD OH YES! And Clare has cleverly and cruelly made the poll open to none so we can't see who our allies are but we will know them by the PRIDE IN THEIR EYES and unite with them in triumph hurrah!
You should go uber-retro: 1494 FABYAN Chron. VII. 645 In whiche passetyme the kynge sent..vnto the forenamed John and hym by many meanys instaunsyd to leue the company of the lordys
And if you do this, you also get to form plurals by putting -ys on the end of things, which is much funnier.
In fact, I think we should do this in all commentys to slemslempike's journal postys from now on. Anyone want to join a Societee for Anachronistick Spellyngys?
I'm not sure. We could say thingys like 'slemslempike her journal' (or 'their' if you prefer), although I'm not sure that that theory is still current. Alternatively we could strew 'y'ys randomly across the commentys and write 'slemslempike'ys journal'. Which would you (would'st thou?) prefer?
Ordering drinkys would be fun. "That's three pintys of bitter, two lagerys, four white wineys - that's small glassys - and two rumys and coke." "That's twenty-three poundys and thirteen pence, please. Ice and lemonys?"
There's something wrong with my head when it comes to that particular word - I think of it as past time for no adequately explained reason, and cannot be swayed from my view. It surprises me anew whenever I discover that it breaks down to pass time, except even then they get it wrong. I suppose I'm thinking of the shop.
I always think that the shop is also swaying me. It's clearly missing either an s or a t, silly word. I never think of it as pass time, either. Damn that shop.
The word brings paranoia to me! Everytime I write it I debate how many letters, and what the extra ones might be. I will remember after this poll though.
It's one of the few words/phrases that I write differently every time I write it - I know the correct one, but sometimes my brain freezes and I write pass time or even past time. I don't know why!
I think it's because if you follow the meaning, it seems like it should be passtime, but it isn't, which is one of the lovely vagaries of the English langauge.
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Date: 2005-06-01 04:21 am (UTC)You should go uber-retro:
1494 FABYAN Chron. VII. 645 In whiche passetyme the kynge sent..vnto the forenamed John and hym by many meanys instaunsyd to leue the company of the lordys
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Date: 2005-06-01 04:25 am (UTC)Oooh yes, passetyme is nice, although I also likes the french, passe-temp. Because it is rather more something than hobby. Yes.
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Date: 2005-06-01 06:55 am (UTC)In fact, I think we should do this in all commentys to
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Date: 2005-06-01 07:23 am (UTC)Ordering drinkys would be fun. "That's three pintys of bitter, two lagerys, four white wineys - that's small glassys - and two rumys and coke." "That's twenty-three poundys and thirteen pence, please. Ice and lemonys?"
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Date: 2005-06-01 05:45 am (UTC)The option "pass time" is correct in its own way, but it doesn't say anything about what you DO.
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Date: 2005-06-01 05:55 am (UTC)I keep seeing variations, and I wanted to know whether it was random misspellings, or whether people thought that that was how it was spelt.
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