Random orthography peeve

[conuly]

Please, everybody, stop writing frig when the word you want is fridge. Frig is another word. It means something else.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

HA! I AM NOT ALONE IN MY FRUSTRATION!

[conuly]

And it's the homeschool forum! They're all supposed to be hooked on phonics.

[sovay]

Please, everybody, stop writing frig when the word you want is fridge.

Yikes.

[conuly]

I KNOW.

I make such a name for myself being super descriptivist, but every time I see it I just shudder.

[fayanora]

I doth feel thif. Ist thine fryj running? Then thou shouldst perchance seek to recapture it.

[conuly]

LOL.

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the nose ran away with the fridge. AND NEVER WERE SEEN AGAIN.

[alexseanchai]

pfffff lololol

[isis]

Winnah!

[breathedout]

It really, really does.

[conuly]

You can say that again.

[tielan]

Yeah, that always makes me blink a couple of times.

[mab_browne]

People will be fridging in the ridging next. O tempora, o mores, etc etc.

[wpadmirer]

Oh indeed it is!

[havocthecat]

Oh. Oh my.

[thewayne]

That almost got a spit take from me - there's a comedy group, might be from Canadia, called The Cowards. A friend gave me a CD for my birthday many years ago. They have two tracks called Friggin' Guy. It's two guys in a bar having an argument about a really, REALLY stupid malaprop, such as Bok Choi is the deceased leader of Cambodia or JS Bach was rockin' front man of Bachman Turner Overdrive.

I love both tracks.

[silveradept]

...yes, it is.

It almost warrants displaying the fig when people want to talk about frig as a shorthand for fridge.

[brokenallbroken]

OMG, I've never seen that one before. LMAO

[greghousesgf]

I haven't seen that one since I was a kid!

[conuly]

Lucky you! I, alas, see it every darn week.

[fred_mouse]

I would accept frij as a passable attempt. But not frig.