In other thoughts
Well, it's good to know I'm not totally crazy. I thought that the voice over for AOL was Julia Roberts but I was assured by my hubby that it wasn't. She wouldn't do voice work for AOL, they just found someone who sounds like her. Ha Ha - it was her. And she got paid a ridiculous amount of money. As has Keifer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland and George Clooney. I knew the Keifer voice, because, well, it's Keifer, and he's well, he's a god among celebrity. Again my hubby tried to argue and say that it was just someone who sounds like him. And Ha - Ha - I was right again. They ran a news article on it on Yahoo news. That it is a trendy cash cow for celebrity right now.
So, aside from that, I am sitting here on this fine Thursday evening watching episodes of Star Trek Next Generation. The other celebrity voice that gives me tingles: Patrick Stewart. He also does oodles of voice work. As he should.
One of the four legged furries just came in the room and they stink. Ick. I probably don't want to know what they got into. Though now they look cute as hell all curled up on the couch and chairs. Nothing in the world is more peaceful than watching my babies sleep. Nothing but innocence and unconditional love.
Survey question? Is spilt a word?
As in: If something is spilt it won't sink into the stone immediately.
3 comments:
SPILT IS a word:
spill
One entry found for spill.
Main Entry: 1spill
Pronunciation: 'spil
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): spilled /'spild, 'spilt/; also spilt /'spilt/; spill·ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spillan; akin to Old English spildan to destroy and perhaps to Latin spolium animal skin, Greek sphallein to cause to fall
transitive senses
1 a archaic : KILL, DESTROY b : to cause (blood) to be lost by wounding
2 : to cause or allow especially accidentally or unintentionally to fall, flow, or run out so as to be lost or wasted
3 a : to relieve (a sail) from the pressure of the wind so as to reef or furl it b : to relieve the pressure of (wind) on a sail by coming about or by adjusting the sail with lines
4 : to throw off or out (a horse spilled him)
5 : to let out : DIVULGE (spill a secret)
intransitive senses
1 a : to flow, run, or fall out, over, or off and become wasted, scattered, or lost b : to cause or allow something to spill
2 : to spread profusely or beyond bounds (crowds spilled into the streets)
3 : to fall from one's place (as on a horse)
- spill·able /'spi-l&-b&l/ adjective
- spill·er noun
- spill the beans : to divulge secret or hidden information
Ha ha - more proof. Someone at work was commenting on a presentation that was put together and how horrible the person's English skills were to have used spilt rather than spilled. And when this person asked a few of us to read the screen and find the error he was appalled when no one caught "spilt". Some people's kids :-)
Well, though "spilt" is a real word, its not commonly used; its much more Middle English (sounds almost Shakespearian, to be honest - 'the bouquet hast spilt upon the floor. O' woah! the calamity of the broken vase...'). It'd be like using the work "stolid" in a Powerpoint presentation.
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