I couldn't believe it but longue is correct. But just for the record if you Google them, Chaise longue gets 1.68 million hits, while Chaise lounge gets 6.11 million. It's just another example of an obsolete term fading into obscurity (rightly or wrongly) or, out with the old, in with the new. (When was the last time you saw a bottle of catsup??)
Totally going bonkers with "longue" & "lounge". Never even considered lying. Also, confused about the coinage & the Mint. I guess I never thought of paper money after the word coinage and was stuck. Dies never crossed my mind. Nice job...these are fun.
Chaise Longue is French for, literally, Long Chair. Most people just pronounce longue as lounge. To be phonetically correct, the pronunciation of longue, in French anyway, would be with the O in Longue sounding like the O in the word "No" or "So". Also the ending, i.e., "gue" would be more emphasized than the g at the end of the English word long. So it would sound like "Lownga" or maybe even better, "Lownguh" Not trying to sound professorial, I just love this kind of stuff!
Since the piece of furniture and the word for it was adopted in America the name has been bastardised to the degree that "chaise lounge" is these days the accepted American spelling. "Chaise longue" is indeed what I'd consider correct, although both forms are apparently equally correct these days. I suppose "longue" was too close to "lounge" and since the chair often finds itself in a lounge that's what most people end up assuming.
One I'd love to see in this series is "tow the line" (vs. toe the line). Also "peek" and "peak".
I love learning little tidbits like "longue." I checked google ngrams and it seems that "chaise lounge" was clearly wrong before about 1920, but it has steadily been gaining popularity since the 1980s. Now it is about half as popular as the original spelling.
But longue and lounge are pronounced differently. For me hard to see how that could have gone wrong, I guess someone must have seen it written down and started pronouncing it wrong and others copying that? I understand the temptation to think of it as a lounge chair, but hard to imagine you call it that when you have heard someone else say chaise longue.
Anyway I came here to say what I see jlamb has also mentioned, that the dies does not have anything to do with dice or dyes, but die-casting. The process where molten metal is poured into a mould oops, mold I mean :D. (had to learn all about it in my studies, but forgot so much of it allready)
This is not a problem in England where the English language comes from. Its a French word and when we say it, we say "Chaise Longue". I have never heard anyone in England call it a "Chaise Lounge". That's just American's making up their own words again.
Lounge is not an 'alternative' spelling of longue, it is a different word and completely wrong. Whilst, through gritted teeth, I accept that language evolves, it does not evolve such as to replace a French word in a French noun with an English word that means something different.
Quite clearly someone at some point mispronounced longue as lounge and others have assumed that's how it's pronounced. Just because people have got it wrong and Google 'chaise lounge' doesn't make it an alternative!
I must admit, the title of the series is more ironic than literal; the series is actually about catching mistakes that slip past automated spelling checkers. The cause of any given mistake will of course vary from instance to instance: one person who writes "steel" when he means "steal" might be making a spelling error; another who does the same thing might be confused about which word is which; and a third might simply be making a typo.
Oh if you want to continue the series a good place to find errors is the world of fanfiction. Among other things it's taught me the wonderful colour "peach black" :)
YouTube comment section is as far as anyone need go to find every spelling mistake ever committed condensed into one innocent video of how John Travolta really did 9/11 with Alex Jones hired by Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros Gali to mastermind the coverup.
There's really nothing wrong with the spelling or use of the word flaunting. It could mean someone who is ostentatiously exhibiting the rules (to the apparent dismay of the person asking the question).
That's true. Since "flout" and "flaunt" are both transitive verbs, any context in which one is grammatical will also be a context in which the other is grammatical. Nevertheless, when you see the phrase "flaunting the rules", it's a safe bet that you're looking at a spelling error.
The description should probably point this out, but I think the point of the quiz is to identify commonly misused words that people don't realize they've misused because the error is not caught by spellcheck.
The title is great! You are missing a key issue here. When people rely on automated spell checkers only, there are often a lot of usage mistakes and conflated words.
really?? you give one star for that? But really if you use a different word than the one you mean, you are spelling it wrong, just like when people use too, when they really mean to.
Length and breath of the continent? Is the continent breathing? The intended word is derived from 'broad', which hopefully will tell you what letter is missing from the given phrase.
I know the difference between the words, and one is transitive while the other is intransitive, but the way that language, especially spoken language, is often used where words are omitted but implied I can understand the sentence as she was laying herself down and I think then at least the spelling would be correct.
I had a problem with this one because even if you corrected grizzly to grisly it didn't appear to make sense. Have never seen "effect" used in this way.
If you look at its use it has been around for a long time and has actually been decreasing since about 1850. So you sort of have that backwards, it is something going out of fashion instead of "a new word being forced" unless with millennial you are referring to the 1900's....
Dammit, got everything easily except dice/dies. Because I had no idea what that was. Quiz overall: spelling/grammar win, general knowledge fail. (For me, that is. Not the quiz. It knew the things. I did not know the things.)
Well if you are trying to spell the word meaning prologue ( foreword) and spell it as forward I would say that that is a spelling error. In most of these cases the people actually meant the correct word. Some times people do no know the meaning of a word, (like affect and effect, and intentionaly write the word they think is correct in that context).
Like noone would have meant "insect" Bea, they definitely meant wife of uncle.
Only the cases when if you used a synonym and people would say, no that is not what I was trying to say. Would not be a matter of being spelled wrong. That is my opinion on it.
(And sorry if there is any bad grammar or construction of sentences in this, I am sure there is, English is not my mother tongue)
No, he is right. Effect is a noun, while affect is a verb. The sentence uses it as a verb, so it is supposed to be affected. I can’t believe no one else has pointed this out.
okay, this quiz is crap. "flaunting," "dice," and "appraised" or not "misspellings" in the sense that the others are misspellings; they're different words altogether, but perhaps used incorrectly. there's a big, big difference.
Just in theory. The people using the wrong word/spelling do in most case have the correct meaning/word in mind. They just can't bloody remember how to spell it and come up with something that looks write.
It isn't written wrongly. "Effected" makes sense. The chainsaw massacre resulted in a grisly scene, it didn't affect a grisly scene that was already there. That's just too much carnage :P
Only missed chafed, succession, metes, apprised and flouting. Not bad when english not your language :) Bummed I didnt get chafed though, I was trying to spell it right, but ran out of time. Have never heard of flouting, apprised and metes though.
"How do you get away with so openly flaunting the rules?" I honestly had no idea what word you were going for there, as this made no sense at all to me as it was written. As I was looking for a misspelled word, I was simply at a loss. "The drunkard walked a meandering course with a wobbly gate." This is also correct. I pictured a path that contained a gate that wobbled on its hinges. "Do not trust the coinage, several dice have been stolen from the Mint." Again, no idea what you were trying to say here, since the Mint does not have anything to do with dice, but I was searching for a misspelled word... Many of the others confused me as well, as they were nothing to do with spelling errors and were simply usage errors. It's a shame, because this could have been fun for me, but instead simply caused me stress.
I thought longue was wrong at first, i always thought it was pre Madonna and you used the wrong affected. It should be an a because it is the one affecting something rather than the end result of the effect
"Annoyed I got a couple wrong, that I just KNEW I should have had right, I'm going to enter a comment. On a quiz that has been on the site for more than six years, has been taken over 30k times, and generated 100+ comments, I'm certain NO ONE ELSE has mentioned MY particular complaint!"
One I'd love to see in this series is "tow the line" (vs. toe the line). Also "peek" and "peak".
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chaise+lounge%2C+chaise+longue&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cchaise%20lounge%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cchaise%20longue%3B%2Cc0
Anyway I came here to say what I see jlamb has also mentioned, that the dies does not have anything to do with dice or dyes, but die-casting. The process where molten metal is poured into a mould oops, mold I mean :D. (had to learn all about it in my studies, but forgot so much of it allready)
Quite clearly someone at some point mispronounced longue as lounge and others have assumed that's how it's pronounced. Just because people have got it wrong and Google 'chaise lounge' doesn't make it an alternative!
I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I was picturing bears with chainsaws.
If you are just talking about effected it means, well to cause the effect.. to give an outcome (not to be confused with to affect that outcome)
Like noone would have meant "insect" Bea, they definitely meant wife of uncle.
Only the cases when if you used a synonym and people would say, no that is not what I was trying to say. Would not be a matter of being spelled wrong. That is my opinion on it.
(And sorry if there is any bad grammar or construction of sentences in this, I am sure there is, English is not my mother tongue)
The word it’s is always short for ‘it is’ (as in it's raining), or in informal speech, for ‘it has’ (as in it's got six legs).
The word its means ‘belonging to it’ (as in hold its head still while I jump on its back). It is a possessive pronoun like his.
I don't get how you didn't realize áll of the words in this quiz are existing words. Really, how could you miss that?
* Just as a quick test, see if you can tell which of the following words
are mispelled
supercede
conceed
idiosyncracy
concensus
accomodate
impressario
rhythym
opthalmologist
diptheriea
anamoly
afficianado
caesarian
grafitti
In fact, they all are. So was misspelled at the end of the
preceeding paragraph. So was preceding just there. I'm sorry,
I'll stop. But I trust you get the point that English can be a
maddeningly difficult language to spell correctly.
It is simply not the same meaning.
If we need to guess what the person really wanted to say but didn't use the proper word for it, it will be really hard.