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- Peddle means to sell something, often something cheap and on a casual basis e.g. door to door; and by association implies something of dubious quality.
- Pedal is what we should be doing on our bikes.
Just thought I'd clear that up - thanks for listening.
See also
Brakes/Breaks
Axle/Axel
Plus many others no doubt.
Peddle/pedal seems to be the most common one on here by far, somewhat ironically.
You'd think MTBers would understand pedalling. I blame e-bikes.
Morgrips/Molgrips
NAIL MEET HEAD
simples
Lgrips? Sorry poor chemistry joke.
Bridle/bridal in relation to the gate annoys me, but also makes me laugh at the thought of a gate for weddings, but then there's kissing gates (for the engagement?)...
Peddle/pedal seems to be the most common one on here by far
I'd say it's loose/lose but that may just be my confirmation bias.
What tires for grammar pedants?
Ok mr locking vice grips
– Peddle means to sell something, often something cheap and on a casual basis e.g. door to door; and by association implies something of dubious quality.
– Pedal is what we should be doing on our bikes.
Just thought I’d clear that up – thanks for listening.
Also rhyming slang according to Steve Jones’ autobiography. In fact I’m just off for a quick pedal now 😉
What tires for grammar pedants?
Oooh, well done.
It’s a fork.
Also all full sus bikes have a swinging fork rear not a swinging arm. Swinging arm is one sided.
Bridle/bridal in relation to the gate annoys me, but also makes me laugh at the thought of a gate for weddings, but then there’s kissing gates (for the engagement?)…
Also bridleway for horses and bridal way for, er... Maybe it's a path to the church.
I have seen toepath for the path along a canal recently more than once. Arrrgghhhh!
^ If you can have a footpath why not a toepath?
What about draw instead of drawer? e.g. Top draw. Knicker draw. Sock draw. 😊
I used to be a grammar pedant, then I realised that some people just aren't great at spelling, and picking upon them to try and make one feel superior is a bit of a nasty trait. Everyone had there strengths and weaknesses. There's bigger things to worry about in life - we all make mistakes, Try and be nice, makes the world a better place. *Shrugs*.
Just to be correct. Spelling and grammar are two different things. You can be rubbish at spelling and still have good grammar
There's sloppiness, fat fingered typos, and autocorrect. I'm happy to let them slide.
But then there are things where people are just plain wrong, or worse, needlessly superfluous.
Front forks, frame set, ride out, swap out.
@submarined I'm not singling anyone out which is why this is just a silly thread, but the rate at which it comes up I think some people may not actually know.
This is also a self-deprecating thread since being a grammar pedant is not something to be proud of, no-one should think it makes them look good 🙂
needlessly superfluous
Like 'off of' as in 'take your feet off of the table'. No-one says 'on of' do they? Put your coat on of the hook? No.
They are tines
Put your coat on of the hook?
No one says that but it would be more better if they did
I should of guessed this thread wouldn’t end well!
Boring/boring
One is to bore a hole in something.
I defiantly won't comment on this thread.
Anyone who suffers a ‘puncher’ out on a ride deserves what they get 😉
I’ve never encountered a pugilist on a ride, ever.
needlessly superfluous
This is an excellent troll. Well done.
I would of brought my bike to peddle along this bridalway but it has a puncher.
The electric/electricity
Faze/phase
Crack/craic
Trolling/Trawling
I would of brought my bike to peddle along this bridalway
If I’d been their I’d of brought it off you
needlessly superfluous
Post of the year so far. That is to say the year is not yet over, so there could be a better one between now and 23:59:59 31/12/21 (UK date format). Ignoring the grey area of that last second for convenience.
Nitpicking pedantry, eh?
😉
If I’d been their I’d of brought it off you
If their was less people there I'd of stole it off of you
lots of bike breaks are hydrolic nowadays...whoops forget to add in the redundant "said"
...lots of said bike breaks are hydrolic...that's how its done
will own up to having a copy of Eric Partridge's Usage & Abusage on the shelf in front of me but pretty sure overtime stuff will change to reflect common usage...simple errors by journalists do annoy me though
I love this thread, however I have some sympathy. Typing and social media need for speedy response leads to mistakes and wierd errors.
a) I seem to have tyeplexia, where I get my letters mixed up, I never do this when writing by hand. I also put spaces in the wrong places. It is a wierd thing about timing between left and right hand I think.
b) I also type won instead of one and there instead of their etc, but never ever do this when writing. I think this is to do with not being a very good typist so I am looking at the keyboard and not the screen.
However peddle, breaks and all the others, I think show a lack of reading. According to my daughters primary teacher, who did a PHD in how kids read, reading books helps to cement spelling, and teach new words. So peddle, breaks, axel etc are probably people who are less well read and have only heard these words in the playground etc.
This is forgivable as it means that somewhere along the line the system/parents/skool failed them.
I've said needlessly superfluous for years (deliberately), and nobody has called it out before. That makes me happy about this place.
Like ‘off of’ as in ‘take your feet off of the table’. No-one says ‘on of’ do they? Put your coat on of the hook? No.
My missus has taken to the phrase "wipe down" for things like the kitchen counter. Its a horizontal surface, there is no component of my wiping which can be considered to be in the vertical direction. Just "wipe" would suffice.
When I mention this, I am apparently just trying to get out of tidying up. And that leads to further argument.
Come on get off of the bus.
A verbal error that those of us who cycle and canoe are prone to is mixing up 'pedalling' and 'paddling'.
Trolling/Trawling
Actually the same thing. Trolling is another word for a type of trawling and trolling in the internet sense refers to catching fish
Trolling is another word for a type of trawling
Not exactly. Trawling is drawing a net through the water, trolling is drawing lines through the water.
Front forks, frame set, ride out, swap out.
Frame set or more correctly frameset is frame plus forks.
Ride out is the opposite to turbo trainer.
I am apparently just trying to get out of tidying up
See also wash(ing) up, dry(ing) up.
Using nm for torque and Kg for mass.
My OH says she's packing up when she's actually making a packed lunch. That's slightly annoying!
Frame set or more correctly frameset is frame plus forks
I know this, it seems many people don't and just use it to mean frame. Which leads to avoidable confusion in the rigid/gravel/road world and is just wrong in the regular MTB world.
Also all full sus bikes have a swinging fork rear not a swinging arm. Swinging arm is one sided.
Swing-arm? Been used as a description for two-sided motorcycle rear suspension set-ups for years, I think you're just being needlessly pedantic in a way that's actually confusing.
'Descend down,' as featured repeatedly on Eurosport cycling commentary, does my head in. You're hardly going to descend up are you?
nm for torque and Kg for mass
At least nanometres are a unit of something - I can't get my head round what Kelvin-grammes would measure.
Swing-arm? Been used as a description for two-sided motorcycle rear suspension set-ups for years, I think you’re just being needlessly pedantic in a way that’s actually confusing.
Not so much pedantic as wrong.
'A swingarm, or "swinging arm" (UK), originally known as a swing fork or pivoted fork, is a single or double sided mechanical device...'
We see this on a monthly basis.
I think you’re just being needlessly pedantic in a way that’s actually confusing.
on this thread? Never!
My OH says she’s packing up when she’s actually making a packed lunch. That’s slightly annoying!
Mine is training the dog to drop its ball by saying 'OUT'.
You know, instead of say..... Drop? 🙄
What am I supposed to say to the dog when I want him out of the room?
She also shouts 'DEAD' at him to train him to lie down.
Sounds a bit sinister to me. Not keen.
She could of course use the popular phrase for getting dogs to lie down as in...... Lie down?
Nah, DEAD it is...
Method/methodology.
How to apply for a pedlar's certificate
You need a pedlar’s certificate if you sell door to door.
The certificate lets you sell throughout the UK. You must trade on foot and carry your goods with you (you can use something like a small trolley).
Any one of you utter cretins who starts your posts with "so" can burn in hell with people who say "the bike shop told myself it was broken".
Otherwise, say what you want clearly and in nice, properly punctuated, sentences and we'll get along fine.
I've mentioned this before and it was pointed out that I was wrong...
but when people say they have 2 choices (curry or pizza), surely this is one choice with 2 options?
What about draw instead of drawer? e.g. Top draw. Knicker draw. Sock draw. 😊
Or "Chester Drawers" in a Gumtree advert I saw once. Presumably they were made in Chester.
properly punctuated, sentences
is that like day release or sumfin?
Chester Drawers you say?
"on accident"
click/clique
‘Peddle’ - the unreleased album by Pink Floyd. The fourth and final one in the ‘eddle’series? Abandoned I believe, because Roger and Dave could not agree on how they would pronounce the preceding album title of ‘Oeddle’.
When I worked in the garage one of my colleagues called me a ****ing ****er.
I had great joy in telling him that was an oxymoron.
He had no idea what an oxymoron was.
I also had to explain that the stones aren't singing about a pilot in Sympathy For The Devil.
Edit..the blanked words rhyme with tanker and bucking.
I peddle my goods as a pedlar and often peddle my bike to get home.
I guess this makes me a peddling peddler and a peddling pedlar.
In the picture you see peddlers in the street passing a peddling pedlar peddling in the street.
I just felt a right draught on my bold head
Could you be more Pacific?
This is the wurst TED talk I’ve seen.
From the BBC earlier this evening. I feel a strongly worded letter coming on. Now, where did I leave that green biro?
19:58
'The bicycle we have dreamt of peddling'Leicester City v Napoli (20:00 BST)
Napoli have been in the Champions League in four of the previous five seasons.
But boss Luciano Spalletti, who replaced Gennaro Gattuso in the summer, says they will respect the Europa League.
"It is the bicycle we have dreamt of peddling," he said.
Link here. Honestly though, I would expect a BBC journo to recognise the difference. Unless the words were actually written by the Napoli coach in which case he has a pretty good command of English - certainly better than my Italian.
Sauce/source. Seen recently on this very forum, although I can't remember what thread. Ketchup is never a good place to get your news.
I feel we're being lead awry now.
Interestingly (or perhaps very much not) my primary school aged kids are being taught English in far more detail than I was in the '80s. My youngest son will identify and describe grammar in ways i've never heard, despite his Mum regularly referring to Xam in the morning or Xpm at night.
[i]“It is the bicycle we have dreamt of peddling,” he said.[/i]
Isn't her just saying that it is a source of merchandise that they have dreamt of selling on the streets?
Seems correct to me
Hang on, is that extra stem attached to the brake lever?
Whoever built that bike must've been on mushrooms.
This is the wurst TED talk I’ve seen.
You silly sausage.