Our little 8-container yoghurt incubator works well for the Canadian bagged-milk situation. When I have one container left, I heat up a single bag's volume of milk (1.3 L) then let it cool. That volume plus the last container dumped in to inoculate the batch makes exactly 8 full containers again. A continuous loop.
The editing tip I submitted to the ACES Editors Corner was featured in today's email:
"If you come across a misspelling in a manuscript, do a search for that same misspelling. It could be a one-off typo, but there's a good chance the author misspelled that word elsewhere. Search for it as soon as you come across it. Or put it on a list of words to search later so you don’t forget."
Concerning #grammar & #spelling, I no longer adhere to #prescriptivism as I once did. #Descriptivism dovetails far better with my acquired understanding of language as a living, growing, metamorphosing creature that will not be contained or constrained by any rules we humans try to place upon it.
However.
Choices such as
orientate
conversate
nucular
alot
realitor
michievious
definatly
apart of
will never fail to make me wither away a little on the inside.
We're sometimes asked how to style "for fuck(')(s) sake", especially when one of those viral "It's for a work email so it has to sound professional" posts circulates.
We prefer singular genitive "fuck's sake", analogous with "God's sake", "Pete's sake", etc. Plural "fucks' sake" if you want to be pointedly expansive or heterodox.
Given the informal register, though, there's nothing seriously wrong with "fuck sake", "fucks sake", "fox sake", etc.
@mikemathia
FWIW the no-D version is etymologically 'correct' as it obviously derives from similar Latin words. Someone seems to have turned 'frig' (the original abbreviation) into 'fridge' in the 1920s for some reason. #English#grammar#spelling
I've been trying to improve my #typing speed, mostly accuracy, in the last few months and what's really killing me is my inability to spell correctly. I've always been bad at spelling, and not cared much about it - but maybe now I've got more motivation to start caring. How many i's in definititily again?
For instance, is "smol" its own entry in a dictionary or not? As far as I know, you basically pronounce it the same as "small". There may be a different tone, but that's usually not enough to be a separate word.
But the difference clearly carries extra meaning. Is that enough to call it a separate word?
@baldur Here's another one for your collection: German Tagesschau (main public TV news programme that airs at prime time, has website and is even on Mastodon @tagesschau ) spelled it "Grundavik" this evening. To be fair, it is correct in the long text, just the intro has it misspelled.