'Allot' is a word. 'Alot' is not.

[Jstpssng]

In those cases, it may be a question of when were the dues due?
On some mornings, you may ask, when is the dew due?
Which of course is entirely different from deep doo-doo.
Coincidentally that may be what you're in if you didn't know the dues due date.

That's a lot of dues. Methinks that you have exceeded your allotment of two dews, too.

 

[Travelover]

Note: Although the Oxford Concise specifically says that a 'wether' is a castrated ram... online dictionaries note that it can also be applied to a castrated goat.

Well, if you are a goat, it still hurts just as much.

 

[cqaigy2]

That's a lot of dues. Methinks that you have exceeded your allotment of two dews, too.

Do tell.

 

[Diggin It]

I just saw something in a post I've seen all too often. It was about a scene they'd seen. I saw the poster say 'I seen'. It was a cool scene though. Not like the log I'd sawn earlier by placing one trunk over another in see-saw mode to keep my saw out of the dirt.

 

[JohnMacca]

There used to be kind of a thing when a fire company arrived on scene and reported a 'small dwelling fire'. Question was, is it a small fire in a dwelling, or a fire in a small dwelling?

Many years ago, the local radio station used to have a police officer come into their studio every week. He would carefully read out a list of items that had been found and handed in to the police station.

Most times he would say something like that they had a "green lady's bicycle" or a "blue man's leather wallet".

We always thought it shouldn't be too hard to find the green lady or the blue man and give them back their stuff!

 

[Jstpssng]

John Denver sang "A fire softly burning supper on the stove". Then they went out for pizza.
It's amazing what one little comma can do.

 

[CobyRupert]

Many years ago, the local radio station used to have a police officer come into their studio every week. He would carefully read out a list of items that had been found and handed in to the police station.

That reminds of the local radio station who would do accident reports: "The car failed to negotiate the curve and went off the road...." Were there lawyers and agents involved? Offers & counter-offers? (....I mean before the accident?)

Seems like going off the road WAS the outcome of the negotiation.

 

[mcfarmall]

Let's discuss "affect" and "effect."

 

[Travelover]

My wife, a school teacher, always is after me for using "good" when I should use "well". This summer she asked me why the sprinklers were not running and I explained that the "good" was dry.

 

[Diggin It]

^^^ And that's how the fight started.