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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-11-12 under ,

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-06-02:

I taught my good dog, Maggie
To lay down when I commanded
I also taught her "Set"
Whenever I demanded.
I'll teach her next to speak, I said
She struggled to comply
And when she learned to speak, she said:
"You twit. It's 'Sit' and 'Lie.'"

-- Wally McRae, a cowboy poet from Montana.
 
[long-time readers of qotd will know that the confusion between lie and lay has always been a concern of ours. -eds.]
(submitted to the mailing list by Kathleen Magone)

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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 02:34pm on 2006-11-12
People who can't use 'lay' and 'lie' correctly don't bug me as much as those who can't differentiate 'route' from 'rout' in pronunciation. Bleah! Every time our network gets fluky I have to call that electronic thing on the wall a tool for gouging wood. It's just wrong. It gouges nothing. It sends it on the way to somewhere. Geez.
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 08:05pm on 2006-11-12
Some dialects of English don't distinguish between "rout" and "route" (or "route" and "root") in pronunciation, similar to how some dialects of English don't distinguish between "caught" and "cot," and "marry," "Mary," and "merry." (The Quebec-French pronunciation of "route," as in "Frappons la route," has a vowel sound intermediate between "root" and "rut," just to complicate things.

Oddly, I'd say "rowter box," but "Root 66," but Canadian English tends towards pronunciational schizophrenia anyhow.
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