Monday, April 16, 2007
No X in Espresso
I would like to go on record to tell my friends, the world at large and anyone else who gives a damn a few things of very little importance to anyone but, perhaps, me.
There is no “X” in Espresso – don’t they put enough stuff in it that it doesn’t NEED an X?
Johns Hopkins University has an “S” at the end of John, just as it has at the end of Hopkin. More than one John and more than one Hopkin. I don’t know if this means they have a number of toilets at Hopkins or a multitude of people named John – I do know that it is not possessive, because there is no apostrophe between John and his “S”. But however it got there, it’s a very audible “S” (okay, an audible “Z”) and they really mean it.
There is no “H” at the end of height, and I think it’s the heighth of stupidity for someone to say otherwise.
There is no “T” in “across”, and it makes me cross to hear a T in “across”. It makes me want to dot my Ts and cross my Is.
There is no “T” in “Alzheimer’s”. The word is not “all timers”, and only in jest can it be called “Old Timer’s”, although that’s a pretty sorry joke.
The words “athlete” and “fiscal” only have two syllables apiece.
To thaw means to unfreeze. To unthaw a chicken is to put that sucker back in the freezer. They’re harder to cook when they’re unthawed, and when someone tells me they are going to unthaw a chicken to cook for dinner, I assume it’s an unthawed-out plan, and it freezes me right in my tracks. (Oddly enough, my spell checker did not throw a rod over or any funny wiggly lines under “unthaw” or “unthawed”. Who’d’ve thawed it?)
Just so you know.
There is no “X” in Espresso – don’t they put enough stuff in it that it doesn’t NEED an X?
Johns Hopkins University has an “S” at the end of John, just as it has at the end of Hopkin. More than one John and more than one Hopkin. I don’t know if this means they have a number of toilets at Hopkins or a multitude of people named John – I do know that it is not possessive, because there is no apostrophe between John and his “S”. But however it got there, it’s a very audible “S” (okay, an audible “Z”) and they really mean it.
There is no “H” at the end of height, and I think it’s the heighth of stupidity for someone to say otherwise.
There is no “T” in “across”, and it makes me cross to hear a T in “across”. It makes me want to dot my Ts and cross my Is.
There is no “T” in “Alzheimer’s”. The word is not “all timers”, and only in jest can it be called “Old Timer’s”, although that’s a pretty sorry joke.
The words “athlete” and “fiscal” only have two syllables apiece.
To thaw means to unfreeze. To unthaw a chicken is to put that sucker back in the freezer. They’re harder to cook when they’re unthawed, and when someone tells me they are going to unthaw a chicken to cook for dinner, I assume it’s an unthawed-out plan, and it freezes me right in my tracks. (Oddly enough, my spell checker did not throw a rod over or any funny wiggly lines under “unthaw” or “unthawed”. Who’d’ve thawed it?)
Just so you know.
Labels: Language
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