General Chat

Came across it in Town Planning, Sharron, but I have no idea where the education bods got it from.

I don't actually know what an algorithm is.

Allan, when I did my degree we had to use Oxford spelling eg z instead of s, as some papers were set by Oxford and were marked there too.

It was the devil trying to get out of it when working in the UK. Much easier in Oz which even bamboozled schoolkids by having books using s in some cases and z in others.

When we returned to England, my daughter was chastized ( :-D ) at school for using z instead of s. One teacher even told her to get it right or she'd lose marks in her GCSE exams!

Don't you wonder what kinds of lives sticklers lead? :-D

Where you bin, Allan? Not poorly, I hope.

Ah! The good old Oxford comma

Dermot, do you get those quotes from a desk calendar? :-D

Words are the dress of thoughts, which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt, than your person should. (Earl of Chesterfield).

Giving myself a pat on the back .... But, I have to admit thst I had come across the word before so not really worth a pat on the back eh!

Stop booing !!!

I am certain that there are words used in occupations that I haven't a clue about.

I know who to ask though. ;-) :-D


Spelt and wheat - a good one Maggie.

I am always wary of using spelt or spelled but, of course, in a different context. I use spelt, it grates on me as it seems too americanised.

:-D :-D :-D :-D

My friend worked in a greengrocers where, apparently, everybody knows you don't put big cauliflowers on display because they don't sell.

One day, the man from the Indian restaurant came in and he was party to this knowledge because he asked her if she had big cauliflowers out her backside.

Somebody else had to take over serving him but she is still wondering how he knew.

It's enough to make one homophobic ;-)

Yes, nameslessone - Al-gore-rhythm said quickly! :-D :-D :-D

As for the homonyms - definitely!

Misspelt would be, to me, the winner of the dead animal skin competition, or the female champion thrower of missiles at a rapid pace . :-S

Sounds like a whole bunch of homonyms to me :-D

Apparently, she pronounces it (as she wrote) a-log-arthim.

Okay, the 'correct' way:
Isn't algorithm pronounced al-gore-rhythm (Al Gore's dance music! ) :-D
Or, as it's spelled, or spelt, but spelt, to me, is an old species of wheat!


...I can see a nest of worms opening up! :-D :-D :-D

This is how I say it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApfZomWlfik

Is it one of those words that has recently become fashionable? I must admit that, until these posts about exam results, I have never heard the word used, either at school or at work.

I know what it means (not sure how!!) and I think I know how to pronounce it. :-S

So what is she saying is the wrong and then the right way?

Before I say anything else, I'd like to quote that purveyor of wisdom - 'Anonymous'

"Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading."

However:
My youngest announced to everyone on Facebook that she has been mispronouncing the word 'Algorithm' wrong, all her life!
'So what?' You may say.
Daughter uses the word frequently at work! :-D :-D :-D
No-one has ever corrected her, which implies over-politeness; they didn't know how to pronounce it properly either (you'd have thought she'd have picked up the correct pronunciation from others) or, they daren't correct her :-D :-D :-D