[OT] Spelling

[William T. Simmons]

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Tommy Simmons
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
To: "'How to use Revolution'" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>;
"'Improvements to Revolution'" <improve-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:42 PM
Subject: [OT] Spelling


> Sorry, everyone, but after seeing multiple posts by people (not only on
this
> list, but elsewhere as well) where certain words are consistently
> misspelled, I felt that it was time to make a quick post about those words
> in the hope that it would help us all communicate better in the future.
>
> ------
>   "loose" is the opposite of "tight", as in:
>      "This bolt is loose."
>
>   "lose" is the opposite of "win" or "gain", as in:
>      "I didn't mean to lose your phone number."
> ------
>   "your" means "belonging to you"
>
>   "you're" means "you are"
> ------
>   "it's" means "it is"
>
>   "its" means "belonging to it"
> ------
>   An apostrophe usually implies possession (or is used in a contraction),
> and is not used for making a singular into a plural, so:
>
>   "television's" = belonging to a television
>
>   "televisions"  = more than one television
> ------
>
> And note that these things are not confined to programming; one quick
drive
> through my town where I see signs that say: "Hold your partys here" (for a
> karaoke bar), or "We use all cloth shammy's" (for a car wash) has urged me
> to make this post. Sorry for being a bit pedantic, and I hope no one takes
> offense.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/