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Cody

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Try the dictionary





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ax or axe Audio Help (āks) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. ax·es (āk'sĭz)

1. A tool with a bladed, usually heavy head mounted crosswise on a handle, used for felling trees or chopping wood.
2. Any of various bladed, hand-held implements used as a cutting tool or weapon.
3. Informal A sudden termination of employment: My colleague got the ax yesterday.
4. Slang A musical instrument, especially a guitar.



http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/axe


Agreed--but your ability to predict your performance was a success. I do like the clever spelling though.
 
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I'm giving him credit for trying to be funny by adding an E to the end of 'fail' to prove a point that turned out not to be a point at all.
 

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American heritage ehh? Faile was solely for Tacoma's benifit

When the primary spelling is ax and it says or axe, that means that AX is the most common or excepted way to spell it.
 

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American heritage ehh?

bwahahahahahahhahahahaha!!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I literally spilled water on myself when I read that.

ohh, ye master of English literature. What is the preferred dictionary to use, so that I might never make such a heinous error again. Please enlighten, as surely the American Heritage is a pamphlet distributed to the peasants only to assuage their half-hearted desire to learn our beautiful language. What is the resource preferred by the elite and the truly entitled?

Also, here is the contact information for Houghton-Mifflin and the American Heritage Dictionary. I'm sure they are just dying to have someone of your esteem taking the time to proof read their publication.

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/ahd/contact.shtml

I think I'm going down to the print shoppe now to check on some colour



:rofl:
 

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I'm going to go ahead and not read your post and skip straight to weeping in the corner.

I didn't think anyone used their website, since is sucks and all.

I never said you can't spell it axe, look at your other post and see which spelling is listed first. Search on your favorite dictionary site there for axe and see what it says.

Axe, variant of ax.

Search it for ax, here's a hint, it does not say

Ax, variant of axe
 

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I prefer to use the proper, archaic form of a word when I can. Variants usually equate to "shortcuts" or "bastardized variations" or "mouthbreathing dialectical differences", and I don't much cotton to that crap, yo.


EDIT: Tomorrow I will consult what I consider to be the authority on words, the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary, the one on onionskin that comes with a magnifying glass and lists historical usage of words as far back as they can go.

Found a couple online dictonaries claiming "Ax" as a US variant of "axe", so we'll see if "AXE" or "AX" is the chicken or the egg.
 
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I suspect it did, but a lot of these retarded online dictionaries claim it as a variant of "Ax", instead of the other way around. The Oxford deal is huge and exhaustive, and unless I find a better resource, definitive. :D

It's just good to be sure sometimes, that's all. Can't go around not knowing and stuff. :D
 

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Axe came first.

Prove it one way or the other, or shut the **** up.

Period.






Don't speak from a position of authority, if you have absolutely no business doing so. You have to eventually realize that there are people here who actually have the education you pretend to have.
 
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Prove what? That in my original post I looked it up online and posted which spelling is preferred in modern American English? I don't have to, you already did in your first post.

Try telling me what to do in person today, see if I do that either.

As for your education.... it's not like I can't english, it's that I don't have the need to make everyone on the internets believe that I am the smartest, beer drinkinest, wheelin most, pretty Cherokee driving loud mouth in the western US who also happens to be god's gift to women.

In short Cody, go **** yourself.
 

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Wow, this thread got ugly... Remember when it was just a lighthearted chat about an attempted murder?
 

Cody

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As for your education.... it's not like I can't english, it's that I don't have the need to make everyone on the internets believe that I am the smartest, beer drinkinest, wheelin most, pretty Cherokee driving loud mouth in the western US who also happens to be god's gift to women.

In short Cody, go **** yourself.

Unlike you, I don't have to pretend I'm anything I'm not. I'm the first to admit that I don't know something, and I don't make silly claims that are virtually indefensible (like the correct spelling of ax vs axe, or which dictionary is a more reliable source lol ). I guess my problem is that I'm relatively good at decontructing arguments and sniffing out BS. I just have a hard time holding my tongue.

That, and I'm the smartest, beer drinkinest, wheelin most, pretty cherokee driving loud mouth in the western US who is God's gift to women.
 
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