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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:27 PM
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Be Careful with Homonyms: Clinton's Route to the White House/O&E's Rout of Her Master Plan
Carry on.

:patriot:

- Dave
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:30 PM
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1. They sound totally different to me :)
Here in my neck of the woods route and rout and pronounced very differently.

:)
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:31 PM
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2. Route = Root?
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:35 PM
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3. Yup
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:37 PM
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4. My College Roommates (from Northeast)...
... used to laugh at how I say route and roof.

; )

- Dave
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 09:06 PM
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9. Both Pronunciations Are Common...
... in the neck of the woods where I grew up.

- Dave
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Hart2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:37 PM
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5. I bust chops about proper use of "who" and "whom" occasionally. n/t
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:42 PM
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6. Subject/Object n/t
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Hart2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:45 PM
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7. Predicate nominative is the one that really trips some people up.
The verb to be doesn't take an object.
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 07:46 PM
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8. "That is something up with which I shall not put." -- Attributed, Churchill
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