For the record: "TOE the line"; "Eat Your Cake And Have It Too"; "Hear, Hear!"

[hatrack]

The Online Grammar/Spelling Commissar has spoken!

[Xipe Totec]

1. That's beyond the length of my cabletow nt

[NightWatcher]

15. Do you think Hitler employed a proof reader?

If so, he would've been the first real grammar nazi.

[flotsam]

2. Commissar-you have it back-asswards...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can%27t_have_your_cake_and_eat_it

[hatrack]

4. Hardly! If you eat your cake, you no longer have it . . .

[flotsam]

6. Google challenge:

Google the term both ways and report back on hits.

[sl8]

10. Can we all agree on Tommy Cooper as authoritative?

[shanny]

7. I concur.

[shanny]

3. Whoa there, hatrack...Rein it in!

[hatrack]

5. And don't even start on "very unique"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. "I could care less."

No, you couldn't care less! If you could care less that means you still care a little bit.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. That one drives me nuts! N/t

[Bucky]

19. I read a book where someone tried to justify this one

It was one of those books about common misconceptions.

The argument went that people saying "I could care less" were being sarcastic, just like people who say "I'm dying over here" when they're laughing or "I'm so amused" when they're not. As in "Oh, I could care less..."

I don't buy it. People who don't care are going to be direct, not clever. Also, people who "could care less" are too stupid to do sarcasm right.

[Ohiya]

9. What is nearly infinite?

[ashling]

29. infinite minus less than infinite

[Glorfindel]

11. With your permission, Commissar:

It's "give free rein to (something)", not "give free reign to (something)".

[ashling]

32. When Edward the whichever abdicated, he said to his brother

I give you free reign

[a kennedy]

12. and dilly dilly

[sl8]

13. Your anthem, Herr Kommisar:

[nolabear]

16. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."

What does "The proof is in the pudding" even MEAN??

[Bucky]

18. it's based on the legend of the guy who reviewed photograph proofs while eating pudding.

Something terrible happened.

[nolabear]

23. ...

[sl8]

21. I wasn't even aware of the second version until now.

Now I've got something else to be annoyed with, thankyouverymuch.

[ashling]

30. Whether it has been spellchecked

[Bucky]

17. Pore over the document (not 'pour' over it)

[Aristus]

20. I once poured over a document. It was pudding.

Proof that the document was no longer legible.

[Bucky]

22. !!!

Ha!!

You just made my day... for all intensive purposes

[ashling]

31. It's a doggy dog world

[nolabear]

24. I second that

[Laffy Kat]

25. I want cake now. nt

[Iggo]

27. ...and the one that bugs me the most lately, it's White House, not Whitehouse.

Unless you're talking about this guy.

[ashling]

28. I've had students write that "it's a doggy dog world"

Long Road to go

OR


Long Row to hoe


or does it depend on where you grew up