Re: nit-pick

I knew I'd seen "suped up".  

http://www.suped-up-cars.com/index1.php

http://www.cartunesstereo.com/installs/7/Nissan-350X.aspx

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31066_7-10390246-267.html







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From: Karl Swenson <[email protected]>
To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 5:02:30 PM
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] nit-pick


According to Webster, Souped-up.  Soup shows a slang definition to match.
 
soup 
"increase the horsepower of an engine," 1921, probably from soup (n.) in slang 
sense of "narcotic injected into horses to make them run faster" (1911), 
influenced by supercharge (v.). 

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper 
Cite This Source
 
 
From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Mike Findlay
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 2:48 PM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] nit-pick
 
Which are you saying is correct?  suped up or souped up?  

I may have misunderstood you but I thought you were saying suped up was the 
correct form?  Although I can find examples of both forms.  


Mike F.  
 
 

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From:Johne Cook <[email protected]>
To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 4:40:43 PM
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] nit-pick

If there's an understandable, sensible origin for a term (such as suped up), I 
prefer educating people and then letting them write what they will. 


The theory is that once a person who was ignorant of enlightenment understands 
the origins of something, once they learn the truth, only contrarians or lazy 
people will continue to willfully spell something incorrectly. (See, for 
example, Daylight Saving Time instead of Daylight SavingS Time.)

Yeah, it's an uphill swim, but if one can educate without descending into utter 
GrammarNazi mode, I think it's worth the effort to educate people. Whether 
people cooperate or not is up to them.

Johne Cook
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Mike Findlay <[email protected]> wrote:
I think we should distinguish between this list and writing as a profession or 
vocation, which I think most of us do.  I've never thought about the make do one 
and I'm not sure where I'd have come down on it if I didn't look it up.  The 
English language does have some strange idiomatic stuff and you could make some 
argument about making due making sense in that you were making something for the 
time being IOW you were making it due right then and there so I could see myself 
making do with make due if I were whipping off a post.  

  
And the souped up vs suped up?  Are we so sure one is correct?  I know I have 
seen sup'ed up but I wouldn't think souped up was necessarily wrong for the 
reason Peter suggested.  Also you're dealing with cars, (in using that phrase), 
and who's to say it wasn't derived from coupe, (being a sportier version of a 
sedan), which would explain the ou. 

 
Exit question:  It is a bit much to require exacting standards for slang/short 
hand phrases?  


Mike F.  



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From:Karl Swenson <[email protected]>
To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 3:57:48 PM

Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] nit-pick
 
Good one.  I never considered it.
 
I have been really working on my lazy spelling habits, partly because you, my 
friends.
 
I eschew irregardless completely.  I am very careful with my “it’s and its”, 
“then and than” and “their, there and they’re’.  Affect and effect, insure and 
ensure and many others.
 
And I totally avoid texting and email short hand as much as I can, the ur, r, 4 
instead of for etc.
 
 
 
 
From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Johne Cook
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 9:15 AM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] nit-pick
 
Interesting commentary here:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=make%20due

I think it's another example of a homophone (and a case of some degree of 
illiteracy). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone

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. I 
understand how it happens, and also understand I'm one of the only people who 
seems to make a big stink about this, so I'll let it go. As long as I can 
understand what somebody means, I'm fine. (I /guess./)

Johne Cook
| http://raygunrevival.com | http://authorculture.blogspot.com |


On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> 
wrote:
If American spelling errors are predicated on the notion that one should always 
use as few letters as possible ("color" instead of "colour", "see-thru" instead 
of "see-through", etc., etc.), then why do I keep seeing the non-existent phrase 
"make due" in some people's writing?

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