grammatical fun with pictures!

So I was on MySpace the other day and had to fill in one of those verification things--you know, "Enter in the warped-looking text in the box so we know you're not a robot."

MySpace thinks I'm sexy. SEXAY, do you hear me?! XD

Then there's this website we use for work, a government statistical database of public schools. I've blacked out the data here because the data itself doesn't matter, but just how they choose to report it...

I would assume that it's possible for the database to be unaware of whether or not a kid's a boy or a girl...but it just looks funny at first glance, lol.


Then I was on ANOTHER site for work, long story short checking out the competition, and found this...

No wonder we're the #1 IEP solution in America (yes, we are). The competition can't even SPELL. XD

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( The quizzes are WORKING again! )

WAFFLES WAFFLES WOOHOO!

This will be of absolutely NO interest to you if you are not thehobbitwaffle, so if you are anyone else you are excused from reading this.
I get a word-of-the-day email. GUESS WHAT THE WORD WAS TODAY??!



Bwah. Here follows the remaining text of said email for your nerdy delight.

Meaning: 1. (Noun) A pancake cooked in a waffle iron that gives it crosshatched surfaces. 2. (Verb) To waver, to vacillate, to hesitate because of being unsure, to be indecisive.

Notes: Today we offer you yet two more words for the price of one—and a very good price at that. (However, today's Word History will show that 5,000 years ago, they were one and the same.) If you waffle, you're a waffler given to waffling. The adjective is waffling, too, as in 'a waffling judge held up the final score'.

In Play: Among the punny headlines in our Laughing Stock, you will find this famous headline from the British press during the Falkland War: "British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands." It shows how these two words can lead to confusion. (Left can be a verb or refer to the British left political wing.) Here is a way to use both words without confusion: "Janice waffled so long between choosing pancakes or waffles for breakfast that the waitress left her table in a huff.

Word History: The noun waffle was borrowed from Dutch wafel "waffle" probably because the Dutch are known for their inventive pancakes. The verb waffle would seem to be a diminutive of obsolete waff, meaning to wave a little. Waft, as in 'a flag wafting in the breeze', is an old past tense of waff, itself a variant of wave. Now, wave and weave also share the same ultimate ancestor, PIE webh- "to weave", which also turns up in Modern English web. The back and forth movement of weaving quite expectably led to the sense of "wave" while the crisscross pattern of weaving led to the Dutch sense of the noun wafel. (We do not waffle in offering our deepest gratitude to Mike Groman, the Vacuumfoam of the Alpha Agora, for suggesting today's two Good Words.)

(Wow. I copy-and-pasted and it left the pictures intact... O_o )