If only you had checked your own before criticizing it in others.
I feel like nitpicking too.
I hate when the ref calls a defensive linemen "offside" when he should specify "encroachment".
Same penalty (5 yards) different action though.
Sup with the extra 'S'?
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If only you had checked your own before criticizing it in others.
I feel like nitpicking too.
I hate when the ref calls a defensive linemen "offside" when he should specify "encroachment".
Same penalty (5 yards) different action though.
Towards, anyways...
What is also maddening is people who misuse the word "like", when the correct word to use would be "approximately".
What is also maddening is people who misuse the word "like", when the correct word to use would be "approximately".
Well that was the point I was making. In casual conversation and posting on the internet no one cares.
bingo! Hence why either form of the greeting is fine as is. Saying "Happy New Year" explicitly wishes good will for the coming year. Saying "Happy New Year's" is likewise fine as it's simply an abbreviation intending the same thing.
As George HW Bush said, "You can go back to your — what do you call it? — your Google and you figure out all that."
The internet isn't a dumping ground! It's, uh, it's a system of tubes!
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It's two in Germany (the 25. and 26.) three, if you count the 24. (for which you often only need a half vacation day)
Well, no. It is New Year's. Anything else is a misspelling (remembered the extra s there
). To me, it's weird wishing somebody a happy new year ('s) after the day anyway. I could say "have a good new year", but the "happy" usually refers to the holiday.I thought they changed the penalty to "Offside unabated to the Quarterback" instead of encroachment. Not sure why, though.
Two different things.
Unabated is when a defensemen charges the QB before the snap, usually meaning a Defensive End lined up past the furthest offensive linemen, giving him a clear path to the QB.
Encroachment is when a defensive player crosses the line of scrimmage and makes contact with an offensive player before the snap.
It's all different because while the O-Line isn't even allowed to twitch, Defense is allowed to move around and dance in the neutral zone prior to the snap. Just watch the Linebackers jumping back and forth trying to make the O-Line flinch.
We have a particular speech quirk here in eastern Iowa: "All's you've got to do...."
It drives me nuts. Ever since I moved here, eight years ago, I've heard it from everyone, ranging from college professors with Ph.D.s to a reporter at the local newspaper.
Speaking of extra letters, both of my business partners say "across" as "acrosst," as in, "I need it twelve inches acrosst and five inches high." Both of them are my best friends in the world, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to wind up shanking them one of these days.
It drives me nuts. Ever since I moved here, eight years ago, I've heard it from everyone, ranging from college professors with Ph.D.s to a reporter at the local newspaper.
Speaking of extra letters, both of my business partners say "across" as "acrosst," as in, "I need it twelve inches acrosst and five inches high." Both of them are my best friends in the world, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to wind up shanking them one of these days.
This thread makes me miss my Mom. She mercilessly squelched my habit of saying "anyways..."
As has been pointed out, "Happy New Year's" is a contraction of either "Happy New Year's Eve" or "Happy New Year's Day"-- or perhaps a combination of both. Or maybe people are wishing you multiple Happy New Years because you've gone one rant over the line and they plan to start avoiding you. 
Similarly, I imagine they're saying "Wal-Mart's," adding a possessive as if there was somebody named Wal-Mart and they own a store; it's wrong, but explicable.
As for "offsides," I know little about sports and care less, but it sounds like it's probably wrong.
Similarly, I imagine they're saying "Wal-Mart's," adding a possessive as if there was somebody named Wal-Mart and they own a store; it's wrong, but explicable.
As for "offsides," I know little about sports and care less, but it sounds like it's probably wrong.
This really does drive me crazy. I also have heard many a professor and VP say the exact same thing. Seems all of my college and business professors were wrong. Who knew. Well in my case they were correct, but that is another discussion.
Or devolve as the case would be in modern times.
I do the opposite with "Im going to get a hair cut." I like to say "Im going to get my hairs cut."
I also like to say "Merry Halloween.", Merry Thanksgiving.",Happy Christmas." People always give me a strange look when I do that.
But this thread gave me a new idea. Im going to start adding an "S" to the end and confuse them further.
I also like to say "Merry Halloween.", Merry Thanksgiving.",Happy Christmas." People always give me a strange look when I do that.
But this thread gave me a new idea. Im going to start adding an "S" to the end and confuse them further.
