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kieranl

3-Mar-2016
12:21:01 PM

Pedantry corner

accent noun ˈaks(ə)nt,-sɛnt/
1. a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class

ascent noun əˈsɛnt
1. a climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill.

While similiar in spelling these two words are pronounced differently and have quite different meanings.

edit : I'm seeing this a lot, not just in one of the previous posts.


shortman

3-Mar-2016
12:32:18 PM

On 3/03/2016 kieranl wrote:
>Pedantry corner
>
>accent noun ˈaks(ə)nt,-sɛnt/
>1. a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated
>with a particular country, area, or social class
>
>ascent noun əˈsɛnt
>1. a climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill.
>
>While similiar in spelling these two words are pronounced differently
>and have quite different meanings.
>
>edit : I'm seeing this a lot, not just in one of the previous posts.

You're actually reading it a lot....really hard not to write allot, :)

martym

3-Mar-2016
12:45:54 PM

On 3/03/2016 kieranl wrote:
>Pedantry corner
>
>accent noun ˈaks(ə)nt,-sɛnt/
>1. a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated
>with a particular country, area, or social class
>
>ascent noun əˈsɛnt
>1. a climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill.
>
>While similiar in spelling these two words are pronounced differently
>and have quite different meanings.
>
>edit : I'm seeing this a lot, not just in one of the previous posts.

Was there ever a decision on having "lead" or "led" a climb?

My daughter would say leaded.

rowan

3-Mar-2016
12:53:13 PM

On 3/03/2016 kieranl wrote:
>Pedantry corner
>
>accent noun ˈaks(ə)nt,-sɛnt/
>1. a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated
>with a particular country, area, or social class
>
>ascent noun əˈsɛnt
>1. a climb or walk to the summit of a mountain or hill.
>
>While similiar in spelling these two words are pronounced differently
>and have quite different meanings.
>
>edit : I'm seeing this a lot, not just in one of the previous posts.

I edited the spelling in my post. I don't think it is pedantry. I appreciate you pointing it out.


ajfclark

3-Mar-2016
1:05:41 PM

led is the past tense of the irregular verb lead: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/irregular-verbs/lead.html

You don't say misleaded do you?

martym

3-Mar-2016
4:59:40 PM

On 3/03/2016 ajfclark wrote:
>led is the past tense of the irregular verb lead: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/ir
>egular-verbs/lead.html
>
>You don't say misleaded do you?

But you do say "needed" and "kneaded".
3 year olds aren't good with irregulars.

Can you Mislead a climb?

Mark R

3-Mar-2016
5:41:13 PM

I think that's the crux of this thread right there?!


Eduardo Slabofvic

3-Mar-2016
8:08:33 PM

On 3/03/2016 martym wrote:
>
>Can you Mislead a climb?

Yes, that's called a sandbag

One Day Hero

6-Mar-2016
9:00:10 PM

On 3/03/2016 rowan wrote:
>I reckon if your friend is hypothetically trying vertigo the piece of
>gear can quite easily be placed on lead he may have just chosen the incorrect
>piece. A blue totem cam goes in sweet.

That's interesting. Do you mean the alien copy, or the funny no stem octopus cam? I shall pass this hypothetical beta on to my hypothetical friend.

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