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bus » bust

Chiefly in:   busting tables , bustboy

Classification: English – final d/t-deletion

Spotted in the wild:

  • A customer stated that he saw the bustboy pick up my camera. When I spoke to the manager I was giving the runaround stating that his employees do not steal. (Yahoo! Travel, June 14, 2005)
  • He and the manager were too busy busting tables and not concerned with the temperature of the food and quality coming out of the kitchen! (travelchannel.com, restaurant review)
  • If I don’t go this very instant, the guy busting tables will have more to clean-up than what’s in his job description. (link)
  • I imagine that many hired hands perform very simple, very basic functions (the integrity that is Capitalism) from everything from busting tables to handing out free candy samples to obnoxious children from consumerist parents. (punkerslut.com, December 17, 2004)

Analyzed or reported by:

| Comments Off link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/09/07 |

rift » riff

Classification: English – final d/t-deletion

Spotted in the wild:

  • Many claim that this riff between the party grassroots and the DC Democrats is a fundamental identity crisis. (countercurrents.org, 24 August, 2005)
  • But, look, Andrea, my greatest concern is this gigantic riff between the rhetoric we hear from the administration and the reality on the ground and it’s causing the American people to abandon what is an essential fight we have. (MSNBC, Interview with Sen. Joe Biden, Aug. 17, 2005)
  • But despite their intelligence and wisdom, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would spend much of their later lives hating each other. It took the pen of Abigail Adams to soften the pain and begin a dialogue with Jefferson that would eventually mend the riff between these two great men. (myhero.com)
  • Hey, this may seem a little bit of a lame question..lol. But why is there such a riff between ‘metal’ and ‘punk’ (Idiotpilot.com forum, Jul 26, 2005)
  • It’s just possible that the riff between Snape and Sirius started out as a “boy’s will be boy’s” scenario until Sirius sent Snape in after Remus and then it turned into a real hatred. (Harry Potter Fan Zone forum, Apr 17, 2005)

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| 1 comment | link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/08/25 |

lowdown » load down

Chiefly in:   give so. the load down on sth.

Variant(s):  loaddown

Classification: English – final d/t-deletion

Spotted in the wild:

  • Could someone give me the load down on the new Michigan recruits and comment on them? (rec.sport.basketball.college, July 7, 1994)
  • I had trouble with Tantras amongst other places.. Where is it? What is it? And what language do they speak there? Could anyone give me the loaddown or direct me to a place where they got handy short info on the place.. and a map? Preferably just a few pages of info, not a whole book (well, a few pages in a abook is fine). (PLANETADND Forums)
  • Hey Larry, settling in to the Michigan cold already and I thought I would give you the load down on the trip. (link)
  • I have heard about the deluxe version having a 401(k) account. Can some one give me the load down on that? Does it does make graphing easier, to see the percentage of contributions and/or current value easier? (comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial, Mar 17, 1998)
  • Could anyone give me the loaddown on Ottawa. I’d be attending Le Cordon Bleu this winter and I have no clue as to its school’s location in proximity to anything else. (Ottawakiosk.com Forum, Dec 16, 2004)

Analyzed or reported by:

The image of acquiring information by downloading it has become banal.

| Comments Off link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/08/12 |

tact » tack

Classification: English – final d/t-deletion

Spotted in the wild:

  • She has NO TACK. Seriously. She makes fun of her kids when they are going through puberty. (link)
  • I went and confused Seamus and myself. I don’t know how Fred does that so well. Oh well, he has no tack. Anyways, I found out who Seamus fancies I think. (link)
  • That said, if you do it and you get far enough, it couldn’t hurt your career! Just bear in mind that although Simon Cowell is brutally blunt sometimes… he is generally right. He just has no tack or manners! (link)

Using Google, “he|she has no tack” had only 46 ghits, while “he|she has no tact” only has 592 g ghits. I don’t see tact to be a common word to begin with, so that may be why there aren’t a lot of hits. Paul Pellerito made mention of “in tack” for “intact” in a commentary on this, and Brittany Hopkins mentioned “in tact” for “intact” in another commentary. I think that both suggest the confusion of “tack” with “tact”, as well as the usage of “tact” by itself. There’s also an entry on this site for the related eggcorn, “tack >> tact”.

| 1 comment | link | entered by David Romano, 2005/08/11 |

tract » track

Classification: English – final d/t-deletion

Spotted in the wild:

  • Historic farms were self contained and self supporting consisting of different tracks of land. (link)
  • Moreover, there are huge tracks of idle land in the country that is owned by individuals who inherited them from their predecessors. The unfortunate thing about these tracks of land is that they have been fenced off making it impossible for anyone to utilise them – in any case the lawyers would advise the owners not to let others use the land and to avoid the passing of ownership by adverse possession, etc. (link)
  • Environmentalists also demand that vast tracks of land be put into wilderness areas without roads and prohibit vehicles of any sort. (link)
| 2 comments | link | entered by David Romano, 2005/08/11 |
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