[projectaon] Re: Spellchecked 25totw
- From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:28:53 +0100
On Friday 16 January 2009, Benjamin I Krefetz wrote:
> 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?
Yes. Here's the list of all occurrences of sputter(s) and splutter(s):
Looking for >sputter<...
05sots 64: an abominable and high-pitched sputter, as the huge bulk of a
Kwaraz
Looking for >sputters<...
01gstw 207: <p>Your Torch sputters and goes out, plunging you int
21votm 179: e turns a valve and the engine sputters into life. After a
few bangs a
Looking for >splutter<...
02smr 290: oundary, your engine begins to splutter and backfire.</p>
03toz 183: the engine starts to cough and splutter. Knott groans loudly,
fearing
04tcod 244: e guttering flames crackle and splutter noisily. You soon
arrive at a
05sots 395: distance. Torches crackle and splutter on the walls,
illuminating the
10tdot 80: assage lined with torches that splutter and crackle noisily.
Halfway a
23mh 265: ames and, within seconds, they splutter and die.</p>
24rw 215: lickering trails of green fire splutter and die among the
scattered cr
24rw 253: lickering trails of green fire splutter and die among the
heaped cryst
24rw 262: lickering trails of green fire splutter and die among the
scattered cr
Looking for >splutters<...
01gstw 217: uhn in all my life,</quote> he splutters, <quote>and
that<ch.apos/>s fo
03btng 250: <p><quote>No, no!</quote> splutters the scholar,
hastily. <quote>I
03toz 106: ediately the engine coughs and splutters into life. As soon
as it is ru
04tcod 29: r just a few seconds before it splutters and dies. You try to
relight i
04wotw 316: ellips/></quote> the Demonlord splutters in fury.</p>
07cd 181: h fixed to the wall. The torch splutters into life, and you
are caught
08tjoh 119: <quote>Bilge juice!</quote> he splutters, slamming down his
mug.</p>
08tjoh 173: <quote>Bilge juice!</quote> he splutters, slamming down his
mug.</p>
08tjoh 218: <quote>Bilge juice!</quote> he splutters, slamming down his
mug.</p>
10tdot 311: t the<ch.ellips/>!?</quote> he splutters, as he sits up and
rubs his sl
17tdoi 39: <quote>By the gods!</quote> he splutters.
<quote>It<ch.apos/>s the alar
17tdoi 61: <quote>By the Gods!</quote> he splutters.
<quote>It<ch.apos/>s the alar
17tdoi 233: <quote>By the gods!</quote> he splutters.
<quote>It<ch.apos/>s the alar
18dotd 61: the name of the Gods!</quote> splutters Nathor, spilling
liqueur down
18dotd 198: the name of the Gods!</quote> splutters Nathor, spilling
liqueur down
19wb 58: f and amazement, the fire-bolt splutters and dissolves within
an arm<ch
21votm 255: l<ch.apos/>s a madman!</quote> splutters Kol. <quote>All
those poor foo
Regards,
Ingo
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