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[slemslempike]

[Poll #504258]

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[jekesta]

Bwahahahahahhahaha. I might be ALL ALONE in your poll but I'M STILL RIGHT YES. Because I hate the missing S it are make me sad and cri. Heh.

[jekesta]

Also I read pastime to sound like Pastiche yes and it is UGLYWRONG. I MAKE A CAMPAIGN MAYBE.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I have to check every time I go to write it.

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

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've never thought that. I am now referring to things I do as "pas-teems".

[jekesta]

DO NOT CHECK. PUT IN ALL THE Ses and let it stand. JOIN ME omg.

Oooh yes, passetyme is nice, although I also likes the french, passe-temp. Because it is rather more something than hobby. Yes.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

No no, I go to write "pastime" and then think "or does it have another s?" and then it DOESN'T. I like it without the sses.

[jekesta]

Oh. Boo. ::sulks that NOBODY UNDERSTANDS::

[whatho.livejournal.com]

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.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

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.

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

Your poll brings paranoia! I got all scared that 'pastime' isn't the right way of spelling it and had to look it up. So now my second answer is a lie!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

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.

[pathology-doc.livejournal.com]

My pastime = my hobby.

The option "pass time" is correct in its own way, but it doesn't say anything about what you DO.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

See, I tried to be that paranoid, but then the dictionary site crashed and I answered the poll anyway, for I am a Hardcore Speller.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

One of the few good things about work at the moment is online access to the OED. Mmmm.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Yep.

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.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

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?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

How do you do possessivys?

[stellanova.livejournal.com]

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!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

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.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

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?"

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I JOIN YOUR CAMPAIGN TOTALLY.

[jekesta]

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!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

MWAH HA HAH!

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

We need a handshake. A SECRET HANDSHAKE OF PRIDE AND RIGHTNESS.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Depends entirely on context (in talking of Proust it would definitely be Past Time)