What is an apostrophe?

[300rag]

I grew up in Saskatchewan and have never heard those terms, needs painted, etc expressed like that.
Can’t blame SK for those. Now terms like “prtneer”, that is Saskatchewan lingo. We prtneer hit a deer the other night headin home from cabaret.

You forgot the apostrophe in headin'.

 

[3C's & a D?]

I make cereal. I am serious, I heard it two days ago, maybe three. The 2nd grader had some trouble last year, maybe it was the fact that both her parents work full time jobs, and have three other jobs they do throughout the week. Good folks, just need to prioritize for their children a little bit more. We do our part to make sure she's as smart as she can be.

I'm glad got what I was saying. If you make cereal you may get a laugh at where I got the serious/cereal thing from, however if you're in the cereal industry I would hope it may be an "inside joke". Some folks don't care for the cartoon "South Park", I love it! It's about season 10 or 11, the episode where they're making fun of Al Gore while he's looking for manbearpig, "He's half man, half bear and half pig"
Both of them have full time jobs and then three part times between the two!? And they have a kid! Talk about a full plate. When do they sleep?

 

[3C's & a D?]

Think about this... We all have a fridge in the kitchen.

Can you expand on that one please? Is it a classier version of "everybody poops"?

 

[3C's & a D?]

He spelled centre wrong as well sheesh

That is one Canadianism that I will never abide by. It just doesn't make any sense, looks like what the French would call a Nissan Sentra.

 

[commando1]

Can you expand on that one please? Is it a classier version of "everybody poops"?

Refrigerator

 

[3C's & a D?]

Refrigerator

Well played.

 

[cm23uoc]

I assumed it came from a shortening of the omnipresent Frigidaire brand in the field of cooling.

 

[rapidtrans]

Fun thread but I usually don’t sweat this stuff unless writting a business or legal paper. You know a lawyer would do with some of our texts. Or even a subcontractor for that matter.
I’ve been around enough engineering drawings and specs to have read the most incoherent stuff and ridiculous abrieviations. Drawings in particular. Notes on drawings often are just words thrown together with the hope they cover intent!

 

[commando1]

I assumed it came from a shortening of the omnipresent Frigidaire brand in the field of cooling.

Yes it was. Very good, Claus.

And this is pretty damn close to what ours was, I think.

 

[stubs300]

Why do they call it a refrigerator when it's a refrigerator freezer? It should be called a refrigedezer! George Carlin

 

[commando1]

My grandfather called it "fridgerrr-da".
A real bastardization of refrigerator because of his mixture of Greek and English.

 

[3C's & a D?]

I have this one up for sale right now. I don't really want to sell it but I've had it for a decade and never used it. Plus it's a Ford. Still works great!

 

[cm23uoc]

My grandfather called it "fridgerrr-da".
A real bastardization of refrigerator because of his mixture of Greek and English.

COLD MILK AND HOT RUNNERS - Opel POST

Also manufactured in the German GM/Opel plant until the early sixties.

 

[LocuMob]

I have this one up for sale right now. I don't really want to sell it but I've had it for a decade and never used it. Plus it's a Ford. Still works great!View attachment 213442 View attachment 213443

What a beer fridge that would make!

 

[stubs300]

What a beer fridge that would make!

Now your cookin with gas!

 

[300rag]

Now your cookin with gas!

cookin'

 

[Wildaugust]

That's funny! When I was in school one of my buddies used to say "I comes along and I says" instead of "I came along and said". I guess we all just form these habits of speaking over time. I get that people say "could've" or "would've" when speaking and that could sound like they said "of", but I have actually seen it typed as "could of" on several internet forums. That's when it makes me wonder.

The there's "break" and "brake" or how about "their", "there" and "they're, they very often mix those up too.

 

[GJS]

Now your cookin with gas!

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you're

 

[300rag]

That's funny! When I was in school one of my buddies used to say "I comes along and I says" instead of "I came along and said". I guess we all just form these habits of speaking over time. I get that people say "could've" or "would've" when speaking and that could sound like they said "of", but I have actually seen it typed as "could of" on several internet forums. That's when it makes me wonder.

The there's "break" and "brake" or how about "their", "there" and "they're, they very often mix those up too.

 

[commando1]

I'm in good company...