On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:29:16 -0700, Jessica B
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:59:28 +0700, Bruce
wrote:

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:35:06 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Jessica B" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:08:47 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Jessica B" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:57:04 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:
snippage

A beautiful try Willie-boy; unfortunately you missed it. You 'mericans
are not the final arbitrator of the English language. See the extract
from the dictionary below:

phoney ~ noun very rare
1. a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does
not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

phoney ~ adj very rare
1. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

As I said, if you keep your mouth shut nobody will ever notice how
ignorant you are.



That seems pretty desperate. You should admit when you're wrong about
something especially if it's a small thing.



BINGO! Very rare? Bruce must confuse steaks with phony. lol


Ha.. I see you admitted you were wrong about the tides thing with
Mark. So, it seems you aren't desperate to be right even if you're
wrong about something. Seems pretty adult and smart to me!



Thanks. Somebody's got to act mature around here. Bruce is so childish with
his constant name-calling.

Somebody's also got to provide some balance for Bruce who, even when he's
totally wrong, like in spelling phony wrong, even managed to find some
antique dictionary that had a 'very rare' spelling of 'phoney' to attempt to
justify his erroneous spelling rather than man up and admit he was mistaken.
Real sailors don't act like that. LOL!


Wilbur Hubbard

My goodness Willie-boy but your reading comprehensive is sadly
lacking. The dictionary I use is WordNet, a free open lexical database
for English, by Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University
under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.

Being supported by one of the better U.S. collages I would assume that
it would be satisfactory.

By the way, the classification "very rare" refers to the word's use in
common English usage. Your preferred spelling "phony" is rated exactly
the same.

So, once again the fabled "Outboard Willie" proves that it is better
to be quiet and be thought a fool then to speak and prove it.


Cheers,

Bruce

Sorry,but you're not making any sense. I think you're defending your
(wrong) position simply because you can't stand to be wrong about
anything.

If I type 'define phony' (no quotes) into Google, I get the Princeton
definition as the first hit.

If I type 'define phoney' (no quotes), I get the familiar Did you
mean: define phony.

Strange, I just typed "phoney:" into Google and got the following

"Results of about 1,920,000 items. (0.10 seconds)."

along with the first definition:

Phoney. - definition of. Phoney. by the Free Online Dictionary. ... -.
[. Translate this page. .]
2. something that is not genuine; a fake. [Origin uncertain].
phoneyness esp US, phoniness n. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related
Words antonyms. ...
Www.thefreedictionary.com/. Phoney. -. caches. -. close

Do you suppose that the reason is that you have your copy of Google
configured to use American English?


Cheers,

Bruce