OT: More grammar stuff - irreversible binomials

[Sifaka]

My error was in not marking this as joke (the dying language bit).

Sorry I didn’t intuit that.

Someone of mercifully forgotten name once described English as piles of exceptions held together by spit and baling wire and a bit of grammar.

 

[ctfjr]

left out
one trick pony

 

[Bigboote]

1. Sounds-like Syndrome. Apart from common examples such as their/there/they're and compliment/complement, I see a lot of just plain wrong words that make me wonder if people are using voice-to-text software and either not proofreading, or are incapable of recognising errors.

Decimated for devastated. My mother instilled in me a healthy respect for the word decimate when I was young.

Irregardless for irrespective. There's no need for that particular made-up word.

 

[Kat]

Catch and release

 

[sno-cat]

The longest? Buy One Get One Free.

 

[HuskyNan]

To and fro
Fore and aft
Vim and vigor
Larry, Moe, and Curly

 

[Bigboote]

Larry, Moe, and Curly

Or Larry Moe and Shemp. Curly Joe doesn't count, and plain-old Joe only counts in that he NEVER should've been a Stooge.

I have my standards. To quote Curly on a tee-shirt I wear frequently, "Beer. It does a knucklehead good."

 

[Jmul760170]

Larry, Moe, and Curly

I'm a Moe Curly and Larry guy myself....

 

[MilfordHusky]

Paige and Azzi

 

[Skeets]

I'm a Moe Curly and Larry guy myself....

I always heard: Moe, Larry, and Curly. Case in point: calling Doctor Howard, Doctor Fine, Doctor Howard.

 

[Samoo]

Intents and purposes
Custom and use
North, south, east and west
Horse and carriage

Well, you don't want to get caught putting the cart before the horse.

 

[Sifaka]

Ellington and Strayhorn
Evers Tinker Chance
Geno and Chris

 

[and one]

Grip and grin
Hugs and kisses
Burns and Allen

In tennis the style of big hitters is often described as Grip and rip.

 

[HuskyNan]

Ellington and Strayhorn
Evers Tinker Chance
Geno and Chris

Isn’t it Tinker to Evers to Chance?

 

[Sifaka]

Isn’t it Tinker to Evers to Chance?

Yes, that is if you are quoting the refrain of a famous poem.

These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double –
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

If you are listing the 6-4-3 double play infielders, rather than quoting the poem, the prepositions aren't needed.

Think of it as the common collocation, peanut butter and jelly, or pb&j, alongside the origin term, peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

 

[Sifaka]

To and fro
Fore and aft
Vim and vigor
Larry, Moe, and Curly

I first heard “vigor and vim” as a small child in the early 1950s.*


“Horton fought back with great vigor and vim. But the Wickersham gang was too many for him”


*Horton Hears a Who, by Dr. Seuss

 

[Scud49]

Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain

 

[DennieEddy]

AE (American English) It’s raining cats and dogs.
BE (British English) It’s pissing it down.

to rain heavily:
piss (it) down It's really pissing (it) down here at the moment.

Source; Cambridge Dictionary

BE (Boston English) what a pissah of a rainstorm

 

[DennieEddy]

Bird and Taurasi

Bird & McHale

 

[Skeets]

Mantle and Maris
Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid
Fire and Ice

 

[Sifaka]

Abbott and Costello
Laurel and Hardy
Martin and Lewis

Jay and Kai

 

[Skeets]

Here's a triplet: The good, the bad, and the ugly (has nothing to do with the BY).

 

[Scud49]

Here's a triplet: The good, the bad, and the ugly (has nothing to do with the BY).

I'll raise ya For a Few Dollars More.

 

[CaliHuskyFan]

Law & Order
Prim & Proper
Fire & Brimstone
Cockles & Mussels
Literally I never thought binomial meant anything outside of algebra . . .

 

[CL82]

I first heard “vigor and vim” as a small child in the early 1950s.*

I actually remember it as vim and vigor or sometimes vip and vigor.

Definition of VIM AND VIGOR

energy and enthusiasm… See the full definition

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