[projectaon] Re: Spellchecked 25totw
- From: " David Davis" <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:21:23 -0800
I've just realised I always thought flames "spluttered" as well,
when you're dead right, it ought to be "sputter"! :)
I don't feel so bad now if Joe Dever made the same mistake :)
--- krefetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Benjamin I Krefetz <krefetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Project Aon <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [projectaon] Re: Spellchecked 25totw
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:24:20 -0500 (EST)
Thanks, Ingo, for going to the trouble of compiling such a list!
The idea of torches spluttering sounds a bit odd to me, and based on the
definitions in the Cambridge Dictionary (dictionary.cambridge.org), it seems
that spluttering generally applies to people and sputtering generally
applies to objects.
Proposal: Change all references to "spluttering" on Ingo's list where the
subject is a flame to "sputtering". Retain all references to "spluttering"
where the subject is a person.
By the way, does Joe ever use "sputter" or "splutter" in a
non-participle/gerund form?
Cheers,
Ben
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Ingo Kloecker wrote:
> All occurrences of spluttering vs. sputtering
> 04tcod 40: to a smaller passage lit by a spluttering torch.</p>
> 06tkot 49: r fingers then walks over to a spluttering wall torch, which
> he removes f
> 06tkot 221: <p>The soldier removes a spluttering torch from a
> bracket on the wa
> 07cd 217: flame sparks into life like a spluttering fuse. The brain
> ceases to move
> 07cd 246: flame sparks into life like a spluttering fuse. The brain
> ceases to move
> 07cd 317: flame bursts into life like a spluttering fuse. The brain
> ceases to move
> 09tcof 135: s, he halts beneath one of the spluttering torches and
> presses its rusty
> 13tplor 246: rough the surface, choking and spluttering like a netted
> fish. You gulp a
> 15tdc 187: Prarg laughs as he watches you spluttering, and as you wipe
> your eyes, yo
> 18dotd 120: p>The hall is lit by a hundred spluttering candles and the
> light of a log
> 18dotd 132: ly over his head. Coughing and spluttering, the wretch stirs
> to conscious
> 19wb 204: nd then rapidly dies to form a spluttering flame which clings
> to the mout
> 19wb 324: <p>Coughing and spluttering, you bob to the surface and
> re
> 23mh 51: fall to the deck, choking and spluttering as they fight for
> breath. Acra
> 23mh 119: fall to the deck, choking and spluttering as they fight for
> breath. Acra
> 25totw 30: t is lined with iron hooks and spluttering torches. Most of
> the hooks are
>
> 25totw 20: battle. In the oily glow of a sputtering lantern you see two
> Drakkarim
> 25totw 66: by the oily glow of a solitary sputtering Lantern, you can
> see a crude w
> 25totw 339: by the oily glow of a solitary sputtering Lantern, you can
> see a crude w
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