Spelling and grammar

[Henrietta23]

Uh huh!!

 

[clstratton]

Speaking of spelling and grammar, does anyone else find it annoying to find these errors in published books? It just makes me wonder how much editors get paid, that these errors still manage to slip past. As long as it's just spelling and grammar errors, I would do it for them.

 

[dacjohns]

Someone wrote walla.

It's voila.

 

[Tallman]

It's voila.

Like a fiddle thing?

 

[freemotion]

I have a French background and walla or wa la or whatever drives me insane!!

Voila means "there is" or what we would say in English, "There it is!"

Viola is an instrument. Or a small flower. I have been thinking of calling our farmlet "Blue Viola!" (Not to be confused with Blue Walla....)

 

[reinbeau]

Viola tricolor - I potted up 80 or so today for the plant sale, they're weeds in my yard. I am a horticulture snob, I use the botanical names - Viola tricolor is the botanical name for Johnny Jump-ups. Their other common name is Heart's Ease. I like that one. They are weeds in my garden, and I love them.

Sorry for hijack, returning you to spelling and grammar.

 

[Tallman]

Or a small flower.

I think that the small flower is a violet, but you have to be really careful because this is one of those words that has two definitions.

Here are examples of the correct usage.

"That is a beautiful violet." (flower)

"My neighbor called me ugly, and I really got violet." (very angry)

 

[dacjohns]

Proper scientific names are an acceptable topic for this thread. After all, the thread is about spelling and grammar. Let's not get too excited about punctuation though, just a little bit excited.

 

[Tallman]

Proper scientific names are an acceptable topic for this thread. After all, the thread is about spelling and grammar. Let's not get too excited about punctuation though, just a little bit excited.

You got it dac. I'm with you all the way!

 

[me&thegals]

Speaking of spelling and grammar, does anyone else find it annoying to find these errors in published books? It just makes me wonder how much editors get paid, that these errors still manage to slip past. As long as it's just spelling and grammar errors, I would do it for them.

Drives me batty! I just finished a wonderful book, but there had to be 2 dozen errors in there. And they were glaringly bad ones that would have been caught by one run-through of spell check!