Grammar Discussions

[JessicaTam]

Interesting ... My android spell checker recognised (even proffered) that word, so it's in the dictionary.

It's a lovely word IMHO and in this context saves 12 characters; multiply that saving by the number of emails likely to have been sent and think of the possible savings in resource.

Toss .. Tossed ...

Bonus .. Bonused ...

My OS X spell checker complained. I guess one of them is not as edjumacated as the other.

 

[anat0l]

Interesting ... My android spell checker recognised (even proffered) that word, so it's in the dictionary.

It's a lovely word IMHO and in this context saves 12 characters; multiply that saving by the number of emails likely to have been sent and think of the possible savings in resource.

Toss .. Tossed ...

Bonus .. Bonused ...

My OS X spell checker complained. I guess one of them is not as edjumacated as the other.

Dictionary.com, Merriam Webster online, The Free Dictionary online all give the word bonus existing only as a noun, never as a verb. So bonused by corollary does not exist.

On the other hand, Wiktionary seems to have an entry for it:

Verb

bonus (third-person singular simple present bonuses, present participle bonusing, simple past and past participle bonused)

(transitive) To pay a bonus, premium

Apart from being very unusual stylistically (geez, showing my age, perhaps?), when you see the following in the same entry, perhaps one should already be concerned about its veracity:

Anagrams

bosun

Saving 12 characters? What are we, still in the age of telegrams which charged by the character or word? This isn't even an SMS or a war room transmission.

I have to admit reading the message and seeing the same thing, then thinking to myself WTF with all the rolling incidences of incompetence at HHonors...

For whatever it is worth, I also cannot find bonii (the supposed plural of bonus) in the respective dictionaries either; the plural form being bonuses.

 

[JessicaTam]

Dictionary.com, Merriam Webster online, The Free Dictionary online all give the word bonus existing only as a noun, never as a verb. So bonused by corollary does not exist.

On the other hand, Wiktionary seems to have an entry for it:


Apart from being very unusual stylistically (geez, showing my age, perhaps?), when you see the following in the same entry, perhaps one should already be concerned about its veracity:



Saving 12 characters? What are we, still in the age of telegrams which charged by the character or word? This isn't even an SMS or a war room transmission.

I have to admit reading the message and seeing the same thing, then thinking to myself WTF with all the rolling incidences of incompetence at HHonors...

For whatever it is worth, I also cannot find bonii (the supposed plural of bonus) in the respective dictionaries either; the plural form being bonuses.

Just don't mention that in the EDR/FlyBuys threads!

 

[anat0l]

[/B]Just don't mention that in the EDR/FlyBuys threads!

Too late, blah blah, been done before, but I maintain it is not a word, so help me God!

 

[cove]

Pass on Bonii as the word for today is gruntled.
JohnK was gruntled as his travel plan for the day was perfect with no delays.

 

[Julesmac]

Is that a first for JohnK​??

 

[cove]

Can we have a new word for the day for Tuesday?

 

[JessicaTam]

Can we have a new word for the day for Tuesday?

Couth. As opposed to uncouth.

 

[JohnM]

Is that a first for JohnK​??

I think - err no, make that certain, so :shock:.

 

[cove]

Sending her flowers would be a very couth thing to do!
I stole this off google because I could.

 

[andye]

A polite young man could be a couth youth

 

[rogerkambah]

Hmmmm a couth cove indeed.

 

[whatmeworry]

Saw this in Newcastle recently.

 

[OzEire]

Saw this in Newcastle recently.

Is BBQ an acronym for barbeque / barbecue ? I thought bbq was shorthand (skipping letters) like Mr, Dr, txt or rgds (regards) rather than an acronym (using the first letter of a series of different words, formally separated by periods but rarely used these days) eg. SMS, QED, RSVP.

But, of course, no one uses barbeque anymore, bbq is more 'Athentic'

 

[whatmeworry]

Is BBQ an acronym for barbeque / barbecue ? I thought bbq was shorthand (skipping letters) like Mr, Dr, txt or rgds (regards) rather than an acronym (using the first letter of a series of different words, formally separated by periods but rarely used these days) eg. SMS, QED, RSVP.

But, of course, no one uses barbeque anymore, bbq is more 'Athentic'

Koreans say it as BB Q.

 

[OzEire]

And I thought the European in-laws were confused when I was going on about a barbie for a few minutes when it dawned on me, and I explained to them, I was not talking about a child's doll !

Didn't know about the Korean pronunciation, thanks

 

[medhead]

Saw this in Newcastle recently.

But that's a proper noun for the business.

 

[AVC]

Watching the news the other night (the weather actually) and the forecast was cloudy for 3 days (don't remember where) but the screen behind the presenter had the word "couldy".

Wish I was fast enough to photograph it.

Speaking of the news, I hate it when they use the word "bombshell". GAH!

 

[cove]

I enjoy the amateurish approach to news by Channel 7 in Perth when they regularly claim it to be an "exclusive story".

 

[Spongbob]

Watching the news the other night (the weather actually) and the forecast was cloudy for 3 days (don't remember where) but the screen behind the presenter had the word "couldy".

Cloudy days are a bit like that: I could do X, or could do Y, or could even do Z.