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how necessary is a windlass
On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:29:16 -0700, Jessica B
wrote: 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 ... On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:08:47 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard" wrote: "Jessica B" wrote in message om... 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 |
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