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mark only-partially-a-perfectionist Bailey, but often a despcriptivist.

Perry are you trying to say despicable?

de·spic·a·ble (d-spk-bl, dsp-k-)
adj.
Deserving of contempt or scorn; vile.



[Late Latin dspicbilis, from Latin dspicr, to despise; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]



de·spica·ble·ness n.
de·spica·bly adv.

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mark a-despicable-prescriptivist Baily
freely admitted

Not on your life! There isn't one thing about you that I despic.

thank you Perry, here's that twenty,

mark pays-debts Bailey

That was uncalled for Geezer, There's nothing perjorative in being a prescriptivist. ...

True. Someone has to work in the pharmacy to fill all the prescriptions my doctor writes for me.
And I don't recall perjoring anyone.

Nevertheless those 'signs' didn't fool me even way back when I first saw them at age 10, in 1958.

I was about three years younger, and yes, I read too fast. That's why it's hard to edit my own writing: my brain knows what it meant to say. If the fingers and eyes can't keep up, well, it's not the brains problem, or so it thinks.

mark fan-of-Dr.-Bob Bailey

I wouldn't be here if I wasn't. I corresponded with the Good Doctor back in the old days of the sultry Dr. Audra Himes, the erudite Grant Hutchinson, the elusive Agoraphile, and many others, long before Doc left to start AlphaDictionary.com (The Alpha Dog of Dictionary Sites) and the old yourDictionary.com took on the appearance of one of those sites you stumble on by mistake when the search engine directs you to them; you know, the ones that seem to exist only to serve advertisements, having only a smattering of content to lure in the unwary.

I take it that "why to we spell it sleigh" passes muster with this group? Does this construction include a split infinitive or an unconventional prepositional phrase?

-gailr
Oh what fun it is to write in a wan hoarse oaken slay.

Gailr, you have done outdid thyself. An uncaught typo, a line fulla puns and a new tagline twist, all at once. So many presence and it's barely Solstice...

--Slug-no-muster-please-I'm-playing-ketchup-go