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ease or eves

  • ease

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • eves

    Votes: 13 86.7%

  • Total voters
    15

cannondalejunky

ease dropper
Jun 19, 2005
2,924
2
Arkansas
we're having an argument here at work, between whether or not it's eves dropping or ease dropping. so i'm relying on the monkey to settle it.
 

SkaredShtles

Michael Bolton
Sep 21, 2003
65,375
12,529
In a van.... down by the river

Spero

ass rainbow
Jul 12, 2005
2,072
0
Tejas
:banana::rofl::banana::rofl:

Today's verb is from a noun that originally pointed to a person who stands in the eavesdrop of a house in order to hear what is being spoken inside. The eavesdrop (or eavesdrip) of a house is that area beneath the overhang of the roof (eave) where water drips like so many words from someone's lips (if you don't have gutters). Eaves comes from Old English yfes, a descendent of PIE *upo which also gave us over, above, and up, while providing Greek with hyper and Latin super. (Today we thank Patricia Castellanos of Uruguay for spotting the odd disjuncture of sound and meaning in today's word.)
 

cannondalejunky

ease dropper
Jun 19, 2005
2,924
2
Arkansas
well i've been saying easedrop for too long to be able to change...and i'm not the only one here that says it either.

while we're on the subject of my poor english when you say the word "exactly" do you pronounce the "t"
 

OGRipper

back alley ripper
Feb 3, 2004
10,647
1,116
NORCAL is the hizzle
well i've been saying easedrop for too long to be able to change...and i'm not the only one here that says it either.
You've been saying it too long? How old do you have to be to give up on speaking properly?

Being wrong now and then is ok - being wrong because you are too stupid or lazy to change is inexcusable.

Edit: Quick, before it's gone: Someone get a screen shot of the poll and add it to the Fail thread.
 
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laura

DH_Laura
Jul 16, 2002
6,259
15
Glitter Gulch
You've been saying it too long? How old do you have to be to give up on speaking properly?

Being wrong now and then is ok - being wrong because you are too stupid or lazy to change is inexcusable.

Edit: Quick, before it's gone: Someone get a screen shot of the poll and add it to the Fail thread.
TN says wheelbarrel instead of wheelbarrow. Getting him to change has been almost impossible.
 

narlus

Eastcoast Softcore
Staff member
Nov 7, 2001
24,658
63
behind the viewfinder
You've been saying it too long? How old do you have to be to give up on speaking properly?

Being wrong now and then is ok - being wrong because you are too stupid or lazy to change is inexcusable.

Edit: Quick, before it's gone: Someone get a screen shot of the poll and add it to the Fail thread.
:rofl:
 

DirtyDog

Gang probed by the Golden Banana
Aug 2, 2005
6,598
0
I've added a link to the main navigation to help out Generation E.
 

Spero

ass rainbow
Jul 12, 2005
2,072
0
Tejas
TN says wheelbarrel instead of wheelbarrow. Getting him to change has been almost impossible.
My g/f has a funny tendency of saying word like 'button' or 'cotton' as 'but-in' and 'cot-in'. She gets pissed when I make fun of her about it but there's no use in trying to change her ways.
 

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
14,591
6
words i mangle:
- orangutan (append a 'g')
- ostrich (terminal 'j')
- exponential (sub 't' for first 'n')