thats a word, huh?

well i certainly havent heard it before

Probably what *this* should be called.
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Post by Juri » Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:54 pm

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Post by Skeletor » Thu Oct 31, 2019 3:03 am

mondegreen
n. A series of words that result from the mishearing or misinterpretation of a statement or song lyric. For example, I led the pigeons to the flag for I pledge allegiance to the flag.
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Post by Doug » Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:00 pm

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Post by Crunchums » Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:21 pm

Oh say can you see?
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Post by Doug » Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:29 pm

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Post by Skeletor » Thu Oct 31, 2019 5:13 pm

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Post by Doug » Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:29 pm

Haruspicy
The act of being a haruspex, one who tells fortunes from animal entrails
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Post by Khaos » Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:34 pm

my haruspicy tells me that this one had indian for lunch

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Post by Crunchums » Wed Dec 04, 2019 8:12 pm

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Post by Juri » Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:40 am

Doug wrote: Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:29 pmHaruspicy
this is a cool word
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Post by Doug » Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:27 pm

Juri wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:40 am
Doug wrote: Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:29 pmHaruspicy
this is a cool word
It's spicy
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Post by Crunchums » Thu Jan 09, 2020 4:42 pm

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"it is of importance"? what does that even mean, and how does "what recks it?" fit with that meaning?
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Post by Khaos » Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:20 pm

you reckon?

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Post by Skeletor » Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:21 pm

Reckon? I nearly killon!
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Post by Faceless » Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:40 pm

Doug wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:27 pm
Juri wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:40 am
Doug wrote: Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:29 pmHaruspicy
this is a cool word
It's spicy
isn't it a hard-C like in caesar?
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Post by Faceless » Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:41 pm

or more pertinently, like in words like "spectate", "inspect", "perspective"
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Post by Crunchums » Sat Jan 11, 2020 8:38 pm

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Post by Khaos » Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:40 pm

:wangwangle:

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Khaos wrote::wangwangle:
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Post by Faceless » Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:57 pm

pokemon changed the name of "vice grip" to "vise grip" and it's uncomfortable to read every time
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Post by Doug » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:00 pm

Yeah over here, "vice" is like, sins
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Post by Crunchums » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:01 pm

if you had asked me to spell that word i would have gone with "vice" because that's how that move was spelled in the pokemon game :lol:
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Post by Rylinks » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:02 pm

Crunchums wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:01 pm if you had asked me to spell that word i would have gone with "vice" because that's how that move was spelled in the pokemon game :lol:

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Post by Faceless » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:02 pm

Crunchums wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:01 pm if you asked me to spell that word i would go with "vice" because that's how it was spelled in that pokemon move :lol:
the TSR reddit has about 50% of seppos saying they hadn't heard the S spelling
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Post by Faceless » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:03 pm

It's a homophone to "vice", which is probably more common, but you're OK writing either as long as you follow with "no homo"
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Post by Juri » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:10 pm

i dont care about color or z instead of s or any of those ones, but s in vice is an insanely cursed formulation
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Post by Khaos » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:17 pm

vice sounds correct to me

vise only sounds correct in the context of black vise to me

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Post by Doug » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:27 pm

Vise-Grip is a trademark

The name of the tool is locking pliers
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Post by pterrus » Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:27 pm

Yeah as someone who plays Magic but barely plays Pokemon, I guess I'm on team Vise.

I searched my work email and the only time the word has ever come up is in reference to a vice president or vice-versa. Weird, I thought the tool would have been mentioned at least once.

But also: https://www.homedepot.com/b/Tools-Hand- ... yc1vZc97y/

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Post by Faceless » Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:26 pm

Doug wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:27 pm Vise-Grip is a trademark

The name of the tool is locking pliers
https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/pliers ... ing_pliers
https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/vices/ ... ols-_-vice

Those names are used for totally different tools here
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