My pew pews are pretty!

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richhodg66

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BOHICA and FUBAR are bigger than just the army. One that got used a lot was HMFIC regarding anyone who was in a supervisory position of anything and, therefore, whose word was law.

Back to "Pew-pew" I don't really care for it, don't care for "bullet heads" or "tips) don't care for "freedom seeds" and all the other cutesie pie names people on facebook pages use. Reloading is kindof a precise thing, and precision language keeps things from becoming confusing or not taken seriously.

I know, I can be a dick, but it's the way I am.
 
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richhodg66 said:
Back to "Pew-pew" I don't really care for it, don't care for "bullet heads" or "tips) don't care for "freedom seeds" and all the other cutesy pie names people on facebook pages use. Reloading is kind of a precise thing, and precision language keeps things from becoming confusing or not taken seriously.

I know, I can be a dick, but it's the way I am.
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Agreed considering I am no longer 6 years old.
 
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blackthorn

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One that sometimes makes me smile is the transposition of "then" for "than". I.e., "it is better you then me". Most of the time it is easy to see what the poster is aiming for, but other times--- not so much!
 
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Ian

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It's "Tejas", Michael. The X was probably an attempt by a non-speaker to spell from what was heard. Then that was read and spoken and you get what we got. I'm anglo (basically) and my family traces back to the land grants and service with the militia here after 1824. Place names are the only things from the Mexican/Spanish language that I don't pronounce correctly, with accent. Reason is nobody else does either so why confuse the issue.
 
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RBHarter

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Mohave , the lake , and Mojave the desert same sound different languages.

Color American English
Colour French and Kings English
Coloure olde English like Shoppe etc .

My spell check doesn't like than and changes it to then . Just about the time I get it trained it gets an update and forgets all of the training. This go around it's decided that spacing a period is a wasted space so dimensions have become a hassle . Fortunately canlure has stayed in the dictionary and it doesn't change it to the oxygen aids , cannula........
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I decided some time ago that we use a mould to mould bullets, but only for this sector of the pouring of molten metal alloys. I know the difference and when discussing moulding iron at a foundry I refer to sand casting molds. And Jello Salad definitely comes out of a mold, often one that is a cake pan! Why isn't that a mold or mould? Funny the way the mind works.
 
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Ian

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As was mentioned, Lyman started it. Actually Ideal started it. My 1905 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog lists many Ideal products and they spell their moulds with a "U". I don't know why Ideal did, but that spelling has persisted vis a vis bullet casting tools and is habit for many of us who grew up READING. Both spellings are correct, and I take exception to the spelling being different between the verb and noun. To mould with a mould or to make moulding with a planer or to mould jello or do the same without the "u" makes no difference. The English didn't, why would we? My personal distinction is no "u" means the green stuff that grows on bread and cheese, WITH "u" means shape stuff. Still, my position is a weak one because the difference in spelling is simply continental preference and one spelling technically covers all possible meanings in each place.
 
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oscarflytyer said:
Love the sideways bent this thread took. Glad to know its not just me.

Two from the Army - BOHICA and FUBAR... Personal original: BFO (which NOBODY gets, and expects the worst from me!) - and all it is is Blinding Flash of the Obvious (I like it SO much better than the CPT Obvious!).

Then the 'run over by a bus' that I always use - BR-549. Nobody gets that either unless they are old like me.

And great looking bullets Mike!
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Well Hee-Haw Jr.
 
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JustJim

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I use "mould" because of those same old Ideal handbooks, and because one of my great-grandfathers--a patternmaker in Detroit--used "mould" in his journal.

OTOH, I used to have a letter from Barlow discussing one of the very early Ideal products. He seemed to freely interchange "mould" and "mold". (Or maybe his spell-checker was acting up.)
 
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Bret4207 said:
I was just thinking about that phrase the other day. People always spell it "baited", even in books. Pretty sure it's supposed to be "bated" as in "abated", eg- holding their breath. I don't think I've ever seen it spelled "bated" after maybe 1945!
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Robin Williams as "Mork". "Let me know as soon as possible,I'll be waiting here with a worm on my tongue".
I have no idea why I remember that...
 
fiver

fiver

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my spell check just asks if i'd like to add that word to my dictionary.
it doesn't even try on simple stuff like there or their.

oh.
simple explanation for words being messed up in England's english.
the Vikings showed up, then stayed and similar same words got interchanged over a few hundred years.
kind of like American being full of dutch, english, german, and french stuff.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Just be thankful we don't get any Gaelic/Welsh words mixed into our version of English/"Murican". We'd have words with one vowel and a dozen
consonants, often with 2 "f's" followed by a "g" and 2 "w's"!!! I've tried figuring out how to pronounce some of those words and most make no sense at all. Stuff like "Daffyd" (David) yeah, but how the heck do you pronounce "Coegfeddyginiaeth"?

I just found out that the reason Wales is allegedly called Wales is because a gazillion years back an English/Saxon king threw up a wall, or "wale", across most of the border between his land and that of those darn, pesky rascal types to his west. They were the people behind the wale! And now you know, the REST of the story!

How may get that reference?
 
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