h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Is there any particular reason why the word anomaly is spelled anomoly?

It is just one of lifes many anomalies

If tonsil revenge was involved, there was probably a pun intended. Were there any *moles* mentioned just before the anomoly? Was the baldest of the Three Stooges somewhere in that sentence? (ano-MOE-ly?)

Here is a little trick for you to remember (as a generality):

If you have to explain it, it isn't funny. Unless you are American or German.

(Americans need to have things explained, everything, not just humour. Germans just aren't funny -even if they laugh after you explained it, they are only being German. (It's only a rule of thumb of course. There were and are still, no end of funny Americans, Carlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Bill Gates. The list is endless (if you include the explanation.))

And of course the Germans had.... erm ....have, erm... I mean ...ermmm...)

>> Is there any particular reason...<<

In this particular case the reason is my ignorance. There are more than 60,000 words in the English language and I only claim to understand or know about half. Of that half I'm sure there are several dozen which I have never learned to spell properly.

I thank you for your enlightenment and happily wave our standing order #22 that "no good deed should go unpunished".

But what really concerns me is that while I have been spelling it incorrectly all my life, the particular instance to which you refer has been posted here for almost two years and you are the first to mention it.

Therefore, while I shall take your advice and amend my spelling in future, the arduous task of correcting all previous instances strikes me as punitive and being a lazy sod I will allow them to remain, probably for quite some time...



~jwf~

I bet if you told an American the German joke: "Let's invade Holland" you would have to explain it.

I am not familiar vith zat joke.
Perhaps you vood explain it to me, yes?
Nein, nein, I did not mean explain, I should have saiden 'tell me' za joke. Only zen vill I zay vedder it needs explaining, ya?


~jwf~

I rather believe you have missed the point of the asides.

Actually this whole group is anomalous. You're talking about a group where we couldn't decide on a name or an abbreviation, so we used them all. Then we changed it. Then we still use the old one added to the new one sometimes. Then we change the words that the abbreviation(s) is(are) supposed to stand for.

I mean this in the best possible way. We don't let logic or consistency hold us down.

...It also makes a great excuse when we make typos.

>> I rather believe you have missed the point of the asides. <<

We all need something to believe in. So let me know how that works out and maybe I'll give it a whirl.


~jwf~

>> ...It also makes a great excuse when we make typos. <<

Yep, that's my kinda thinking! But I freely admit I didn't know how to spell 'anomolous'. See I did it again. It' one of those words I learned by ear and later, whenever I read it, I assumed a typo if I noticed it at all.

Again my thanks to the researcher who pointed it out.

~jwf~

Now that we have discussed how it is spelled shall we be discussing what it means?

Is it really important how it sounds , if you can't hear it ?
Really important is the meaning , so it seems to me . If I read the word there will never be the thought : " Hey look be careful ,there is an trap it sounds not like it seems !" so was it till I was reading some brainstorming news about the most interessting word , called "anomoly" written "anomaly" . The sight of the world has changed and thats what the word means . It isn't normal to matter yourself with something everybody do wrong and never will be punished by themself because there is no reason for .That the knowing is lost since the birth of the word is the point that you could ask this question . Are you sure that the word wasn't made to trouble you ? That would be anomaly !!!

Be with your thoughts Marcel - Pierre