Re: nit-pick

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Johne Cook wrote:
> My pet peeve here is 'souped up,' as in I supercharged the engine of a 
> sports car, which would seem to be 'suped up,' but as people are hearing 
> the word instead of seeing it, they spell the word they hear and not the 
> correct word.

Huh, I never thought of that.  I always assumed someone was "making soup" 
of something, i.e. adding ingredients or whatever, so to speak.

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