I always understood that it was two separate words – Land Rover. The Land Rover website does confirm this.
It does make one wonder as to how much of a specialist they might be. Is it actually a specialist of Land Rover vehicles?
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I always understood that it was two separate words – Land Rover. The Land Rover website does confirm this. It does make one wonder as to how much of a specialist they might be. Is it actually a specialist of Land Rover vehicles?
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  A while back I was thrown somewhat that the word ‘till’ is in some dictionaries as a shortening of ‘Until’.
I spotted this sign on Blarney Street and was wondering if ‘Untill’ had made an appearance – Chambers and Collins say no, so far. I suppose the customers will get the message regardless of the spelling.   ‘Launderette’ was, and continues to be, one of those play words among our family members.
‘Minestrone’ is not pronounced ‘Min Ess Throw Neigh’. It rhymes with stone and is simply ‘Mine Strone’. Elsewhere an egg may be boiled, hereabouts it becomes a ‘baldy egg’ I am sure that there are a few more that will only come to mind after I hit the ‘post’ button. ‘Launderette’ is pronounced as ‘Lawn Der Et eeee’ as if to rhyme with the former Chelsea goalkeeper, Peter Bonetti. Maybe it is because of this word play, but I have never had difficulty with the spelling of these words. But if ‘Launderette’ is to be misspelled, I would have thought ‘Launderet’ was more probable than ‘Launderett’, but I was wrong. 
 PILLERS BUILT ......? No Such Thing as Bad Publicity - Chapter 24  They may well build perfect pillars but I am not sure I would trust their spelling enough to ask them to engrave it.
It appears that they are specialists in only one wall – if this wall is already built, not a lot of comfort for a new customer.  Grand Parade, Cork  It appears that candidates do not need to be ‘experinced’ in spelling ‘experienced’.
They may need the experience to distinguish between a ‘Poter’, ‘Porter’, ‘Potter’ and ‘Poster’ when all the clues are unavailable. I suspect anyone who can determine what a ‘dynamic tean team’ might be is a shoe-in for employment.  I used to go for a haircut.
For some time, I have realised that reseeding is a word used for grass and receding is the word that applies to my head – thus rendering the scissors useless, replaced by a couple of minutes with a razor. Head shave is my present and my future. Last week, as well as my head shave, I also spotted a new variation on the alternatives for Coburg Street.
Maybe it is a reminder to self as to how to differentiate between Earth and Live wires.
Maybe there is some Spanish blood in El Ectrical. Maybe it was deliberate to promote discussion, or even for inclusion here. Or maybe the proof-reader didn’t do a perfect job.  Last night, my neighbour was heading with his father to a fund-raiser for his soccer club’s trip to England for the Newcastle v West Bromwich Albion match.
I gave €5 to the betting fund. When they returned, I was advised that he lost all of my money but managed to make a small profit on his own bets – try argue that with a thirteen year old. I did get some return – the opportunity to photograph the front page of the Race-card programme – another example of the value of proofreading.   In Ennis Shopping Centre at the weekend, I stopped at the sign outside the Key Cutter’s shop.
It is odd that ‘T’ and ‘C’ were placed in the correct order in ‘PATCHING’ but not in the words over and under. If I needed engraving done, I think that I would call in person and hand over the wording rather than risk telephoning in the text – especially if it included a’C’ after a ‘T’.  Walk-ins Welcome Every year or so, I hear or read about new works being added to the Oxford English Dictionary – many of them are regularly from social media; texting ; or, new computer terminology.
If you want to be distracted on recent additions to the dictionary, you could have a look here or here. The Chambers Dictionary does not have any entry for ‘walk-in’. Collins Dictionary does list it, but as an adjective. The Beauty Spot may have deliberately started a campaign to get ‘walk-in’ into the dictionary as a noun based upon regularly use – but then again, maybe not…….   I remember a lecturer, many years ago, commenting when spelling a word aloud, ‘m’ as in ‘mnemonics’. Thirty years later, it still floats about my grey matter.
I would often place words such a ‘pneumonic’ and ‘psalm’ in a similar grouping but have not yet created an alphabet of silent first letters. This week in Merchants Quay Shopping Centre, I was reminded as to another candidate for the ‘p’ entry in the dictionary. If I were in need of treatment for psoriasis, I think I would be a bit more confident of a successful outcome if the practitioner actually used the same spelling as I did. Maybe that is just me.  Yesterday DH sent me this photo taken at Cork University Hospital. DH well knows my interest in signs and matters lost in translation.
It landed on the phone and I got thinking of the word ‘Teoranta’ which I have only seen used in respect of a Limited Company – such as Tinteain Mhuscraí Teo. I registered a reminder to check the dictionary today as to whether it was used for in a sense of ‘limited supply’. I have learnt that it is. What I had failed to spot in the photograph was the missing ‘r’ and the missing ‘síneadh fada’ in ‘Páirceáil’. Once again, the HSE provide the thought for the day…. |
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