Off-Topic PEELie: Most Honourable PEELer

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The options are, in no particular order, the top five from the "Most Honourable PEELer" thread in the POTM subforum.

So, who gets your "honourable mention" the most often?

To clarify: Vote for the person you most often want to nominate for POTM despite them having won it within the last twelve months. Go!

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At least honourable was spelt correctly.  SpaceMaN might be on the honorable poll.  Alone.

Well, I am gonna vote for totalnerduk.  Because despite his claims, he has been upping his game lately, and - other than me - he is the only one on that poll who knows how to spell honourable.  And that, my dear friends, is a deal breaker.

[Reply #2 on:]

Went for futurefreak...

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Odd, going by the dictionary in my hands, it says honorable.  Are you telling me Merriam-Webster is wrong?

(You know they spell things differently in different countries, right?)

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Are you telling me Merriam-Webster is wrong?

Why yes, yes it is!

[Reply #5 on:]

(You know they spell things differently in different countries, right?)

Yeah, but we were spelling it before you.

[Reply #6 on:]

Sourry.  Iu diudn't reuauliuze theu speulliung nauzius weureu sou haursh.

[Reply #7 on:]

Are you telling me Merriam-Webster is wrong?

I have always said that Webster is a dick, a liar and a fraud.  Or rather was.

[Reply #8 on:]

I appreciate that American spelling is very often more dyslexia-friendly. Unlike the word "dyslexia" - what's up with that?

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I appreciate that American spelling is very often more dyslexia-friendly. Unlike the word "dyslexia" - what's up with that?

That's English's heavy usage of Latin loanwords.  Which would make sense if English was a Romanic language, like French, but apparently it loves to pretend it is.  Danish for instance, calls it 'ordblindhed', which translates literally as 'word blindness', which - if I am not mistaken - does exist in English.  But apparently, English speakers insist we use the difficult version, 'dyslexia'.

Also, ShepherdofShark, British English uses single quotes before double quotes; '... "..." ...'.

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Dick Duck

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Also, ShepherdofShark, British English uses single quotes before double quotes; '... "..." ...'.

You use one inside of the other, but you can use either you like as the initial, as long as you're consistent. The formal convention for the use single apostrophes as quote marks before double comes from the early days of typesetting and is no longer used thanks to the modern information age and the advent of desktop publishing, as well as the general reconvergance of British and American English over the last twenty to thirty years (which is itself due to globalisation facilitated by information systems).

As for Merriam-Webster, they are quite often wrong. The Oxford English Dictionary is really the only one I trust consistently, although the Collins concise paperback is my usual reference material (I don't have a full Oxford).

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What's a paperback?

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I'm going to assume that you know what a paperback is and are taking the piss. Therefore I'll tell you that a paperback is an escaped slave from a paper mill, who crossed the paper moat to get to freedom. Rather than telling you it's a book with a thin paper or card cover and spine, as opposed to a hardback, which is a book with a thick, hard shell of a cover and spine - usually with a dustjacket as well.

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I went with Xanfor, as I think he's the only person on this list who I actually, like, honorably myself.

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I'm going to assume that you know what a paperback is and are taking the piss. Therefore I'll tell you that a paperback is an escaped slave from a paper mill, who crossed the paper moat to get to freedom. Rather than telling you it's a book with a thin paper or card cover and spine, as opposed to a hardback, which is a book with a thick, hard shell of a cover and spine - usually with a dustjacket as well.

I was trying to draw attention to the fact that everything is digital now, especially dictionaries - they seemed like the first book to be online. Good job for recognizing my demeanor heheh.

Seriously though, they still make paperbacks of dictionaries? Those things become obsolete in like, a day.

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I went with Xanfor, as I think he's the only person on this list who I actually, like, honorably myself.

I'm not sure that made sense.  If it did, damn I need drugs.

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Seriously though, they still make paperbacks of dictionaries? Those things become obsolete in like, a day.

Sure they do.  But I would prefer it in hardback.  I mean, if you have to get a dictionary or an encyclopædia, you gotta go hardback.  It looks the best on your shelf.

[Reply #18 on:]

They're the best to hollow out too, to store your money or Honorary Justice League membership card.

[Reply #19 on:]

Why would you hide that?

[Reply #20 on:]

Because it's spelled wroung.

[Reply #21 on:]

Where?

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[Reply #23 on:]

As things stand, there aren't many votes left to be cast compared to the other polls... but we do have the makings of a three-way tie. This is going to be interesting.

[Reply #24 on:]

Whether you find them honourable or only just honorable, you should still vote for your favourite of them!

[Reply #25 on:]

Or only just your favorite.

[Reply #26 on:]

Now that's just silly.

[Reply #27 on:]

I'll go with Doc Thunder.

[Reply #28 on:]

[Shaq "the point" image]
Would you believe I just ctrl+tab'd my way here from a tab about the superhero movie Steel, starring Shaq, which also misses the point?

My vote is with Tnuk.

[Reply #29 on:]

Ohhhhh

I get it now.

[Reply #30 on:]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH KAZAAAM!!!

[Reply #31 on:]

A close result. Head over to the Awards Ceremony if you want to see who won.