This is a pet peeve. So get it straight:

Core: the irreducible center of something. Apples have a core. The earth has a core. A team could have a unit that serves as the center, the heart, of the team -- ie, the MLB and Safeties are the core of the defense.

Corps: a body, a group (related etymologically to "corpse"). As in Marine Corps. So each group of players on a team is a corps...the linebacker corps, the wide receiver corps.

Pronounced the same, and are almost BUT NOT QUITE interchangeable: the linebacker corps is the core of the defense.

Thank you. As you were.

JSC 76;842024006 said:

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This is a pet peeve. So get it straight:

Core: the irreducible center of something. Apples have a core. The earth has a core. A team could have a unit that serves as the center, the heart, of the team -- ie, the MLB and Safeties are the core of the defense.

Corps: a body, a group (related etymologically to "corpse"). As in Marine Corps. So each group of players on a team is a corps...the linebacker corps, the wide receiver corps.

Pronounced the same, and are almost BUT NOT QUITE interchangeable: the linebacker corps is the core of the defense.

Thank you. As you were.

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Pet peeve: Those two words aren't even interchangeable in the sentence you used.

Eat the apple and f$ck the corps.

Thank you for the clarification!

Okay, so I'm assuming some other post here set you off, right? (I haven't come across it, yet.)

Question: Somebody (probably some teacher, or something) once told me that "roll" and "role" are also two different things. Can you confirm this? I had always figured that they were just two alternate spellings of the same word, so I would usually alternate the spellings, for variety's sake.

JSC 76;842024006 said:

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This is a pet peeve. So get it straight:

Core: the irreducible center of something. Apples have a core. The earth has a core. A team could have a unit that serves as the center, the heart, of the team -- ie, the MLB and Safeties are the core of the defense.

Corps: a body, a group (related etymologically to "corpse"). As in Marine Corps. So each group of players on a team is a corps...the linebacker corps, the wide receiver corps.

Pronounced the same, and are almost BUT NOT QUITE interchangeable: the linebacker corps is the core of the defense.

Thank you. As you were.

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It's obvious we need a HC selection, sooner than later; some of us are losing it...

:p

Big C_Cal;842024018 said:

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Thank you for the clarification!

Okay, so I'm assuming some other post here set you off, right? (I haven't come across it, yet.)

Question: Somebody (probably some teacher, or something) once told me that "roll" and "role" are also two different things. Can you confirm this? I had always figured that they were just two alternate spellings of the same word, so I would usually alternate the spellings, for variety's sake.

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Virtually every post that uses one of these words, uses the wrong one.

Yeah, absolutely.

Roll: as a noun, a piece of bread. As a verb, to fall on the ground and rotate.
Role: (only a noun) an actor's part in a play.

You have heard of "dictionaries", right?

Others (not even pronounced the same) tact/tack, fete/feat that are regularly misused by posters on this board.

grandmastapoop;842024010 said:

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Pet peeve: Those two words aren't even interchangeable in the sentence you used.

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"Interchangeable" is probably the wrong word (ironically). "Easily confused, and deceptively similar as both appear to be related to the context" would be a better description.

59bear;842024026 said:

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Others (not even pronounced the same) tact/tack, fete/feat that are regularly misused by posters on this board.

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Yeah. And "should of" instead of "should have".

Don't get me started on adverbs!

:newnana:

GB54;842024015 said:

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Eat the apple and f$ck the corps.

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Honest reaction to seeing this post

JSC 76;842024006 said:

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This is a pet peeve. So get it straight:

Core: the irreducible center of something. Apples have a core. The earth has a core. A team could have a unit that serves as the center, the heart, of the team -- ie, the MLB and Safeties are the core of the defense.

Corps: a body, a group (related etymologically to "corpse"). As in Marine Corps. So each group of players on a team is a corps...the linebacker corps, the wide receiver corps.

Pronounced the same, and are almost BUT NOT QUITE interchangeable: the linebacker corps is the core of the defense.

Thank you. As you were.

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Here, here!

BearsWiin;842024116 said:

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Here, here!

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Hear, hear....... Lmfao.

Also, you don't "take the reigns," you "take the reins."

Sportswriters get this wrong almost every time.

And please tell folks to stop using irregardless.
Go Bears!

It's a mute point.

I know where GrammatikPolizei hangs his hat, but where the hell did EnglishCop go?

BearsWiin;842024225 said:

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It's a MOOT point.

I know where GrammatikPolizei hangs his hat, but where the hell did EnglishCop go?

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fify AGAIN! Sorry...... Couldn't resist. Hear, hear!

NYCGOBEARS;842024233 said:

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fify AGAIN! Sorry...... Couldn't resist. Hear, hear!

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Quit fixing things. Isn't this the thread for listing common grammar mistakes that **** you off? You are making me so mad, my head is going to literally explode.

(see what I did there?)

BearsWiin;842024252 said:

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Quit fixing things. Isn't this the thread for listing common grammar mistakes that **** you off? You are making me so mad, my head is going to literally explode.

(see what I did there?)

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Lol. Thats to funny.

BearsWiin;842024252 said:

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Quit fixing things. Isn't this the thread for listing common grammar mistakes that **** you off? You are making me so mad, my head is going to literally explode.

(see what I did there?)

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Anyone see that chicken on one of the home shopping networks who uses literally almost every sentence. The off putting thing is she uses it correctly just about every time.

"this rug is LITERALLY 45 by 30 inches."
"I literally have two of these at home."
"my dog literally sleeps on this dog bed."

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Phantomfan;842024279 said:

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Anyone see that chicken on one of the home shopping networks who uses literally almost every sentence. The off putting thing is she uses it correctly just about every time.

"this rug is LITERALLY 45 by 30 inches."
"I literally have two of these at home."
"my dog literally sleeps on this dog bed."

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU

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I'm kinda disturbed that you watch a home shopping network.

I'm kinda disappointed that nobody cares about split infinitives anymore.

BearsWiin;842024289 said:

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I'm kinda disappointed that nobody cares about split infinitives anymore.

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I'm sure that there's a Middle English scholar somewhere who might care.

NYCGOBEARS;842024281 said:

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I'm kinda disturbed that you watch a home shopping network.

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It was on the soup last week.

Phantomfan;842024344 said:

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It was on the soup last week.

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Strong soup.

JSC 76;842024006 said:

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This is a pet peeve. So get it straight:

Core: the irreducible center of something. Apples have a core. The earth has a core. A team could have a unit that serves as the center, the heart, of the team -- ie, the MLB and Safeties are the core of the defense.

Corps: a body, a group (related etymologically to "corpse"). As in Marine Corps. So each group of players on a team is a corps...the linebacker corps, the wide receiver corps.

Pronounced the same, and are almost BUT NOT QUITE interchangeable: the linebacker corps is the core of the defense.

Thank you. As you were.

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The "Corps" that kills me is Corp. As in "the Marine Corp. sent a Marine, with a rifle and .nife, to the belle. to learn to danc. for the ball, tho. he didn't think he should."

Bringing this back to football ...

I just hate it when we loose

JSC 76;842024024 said:

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Virtually every post that uses one of these words, uses the wrong one.

Yeah, absolutely.

Roll: as a noun, a piece of bread. As a verb, to fall on the ground and rotate.
Role: (only a noun) an actor's part in a play.

You have heard of "dictionaries", right?

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Let's cut to the corps of the matter: My roll in this debate is to expand my theory to other word pairs (if, as you claim, that's what they really are... I'm still pretty sure that they are just alternate spellings of the same word).

What about "break" and "brake"? This is another case in which I believe it is the same word (albeit with multiple meanings), but that EITHER SPELLING is acceptable! Again, I choose to simply alternate spellings each time I use the word, for variety's sake. Kind of spices up my writing, you know?

BearsWiin;842024289 said:

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I'm kinda disappointed that nobody cares about split infinitives anymore.

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Yeah or dangling prepositions. Must avoid those.

"That is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."

JSC 76;842024032 said:

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Yeah. And "should of" instead of "should have".

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I hate that one. Almost as bad as their/there/they're .....

"They're over there with their friends."

"Then" and "than."

I like this better [U]then[/U] that. Wrong!

These words to NOT mean the same thing. They don't even sound the same.

JSC 76;842024006 said:

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This is a pet peeve. So get it straight:

Core: the irreducible center of something. Apples have a core. The earth has a core. A team could have a unit that serves as the center, the heart, of the team -- ie, the MLB and Safeties are the core of the defense.

Corps: a body, a group (related etymologically to "corpse"). As in Marine Corps. So each group of players on a team is a corps...the linebacker corps, the wide receiver corps.

Pronounced the same, and are almost BUT NOT QUITE interchangeable: the linebacker corps is the core of the defense.

Thank you. As you were.

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I could care less.


I actually mean the above literally, since people almost never get this right and it is one of the few manglings that actually conveys the opposite of the user's intended meaning. Drives me nuts.

JSC 76;842024006 said:

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This is a pet peeve. So get it straight:

Core: the irreducible center of something. Apples have a core. The earth has a core. A team could have a unit that serves as the center, the heart, of the team -- ie, the MLB and Safeties are the core of the defense.

Corps: a body, a group (related etymologically to "corpse"). As in Marine Corps. So each group of players on a team is a corps...the linebacker corps, the wide receiver corps.

Pronounced the same, and are almost BUT NOT QUITE interchangeable: the linebacker corps is the core of the defense.

Thank you. As you were.

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Do you have a preference between "our" team versus "are" team??

"...You say eether and I say eyether,
You say neether and I say nyther,
Eether, eyether, neether, nyther,
Let's call the whole thing off!
You like potato and I like potahto,
You like tomato and I like tomahto,
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto!
Let's call the whole thing off!...."