"Victory" vs. "Win"?

[Liut]

Teams and individuals don't lose anymore. They just fall.

 

[MNgremlin]

I use 'em interchangeably, like switching up between "Podunk HS" and "Podunkers" to not get repetitive within a story.

 

[Slacker]

Told this story once before ...

I got a hospital story on the desk one night in which the reporter called it a hospital in the lead and then called it a "facility" every single forking time through the rest of the story, 26 or 27 times, and yes I counted them all.

I couldn't believe it. Just sat there stunned as I watched that shirt pile up.
And then I changed them all back to "hospital." Or most of them, at least.

"Facility" is such a nothing word. Almost anything and everything is a facility for something.

 

[Typist Clerk]

Told this story once before ...

I got a hospital story on the desk one night in which the reporter called it a hospital in the lead and then called it a "facility" every single forking time through the rest of the story, 26 or 27 times, and yes I counted them all.

I couldn't believe it. Just sat there stunned as I watched that shirt pile up.
And then I changed them all back to "hospital." Or most of them, at least.

"Facility" is such a nothing word. Almost anything and everything is a facility for something.

As bad is "event" for game or tournament or competition. A birthday party is an event. Almost anything can be an event. Specificity, please.

 

[Typist Clerk]

I couldn't give two shirts over win vs victory. M-W has it as a verb first and then a noun. So use it; don't use it. I couldn't care less. What does get my goad is when people use won instead of beat or defeat. Kids do this a lot but some adults do it too because they don't correct their kids and they start saying it.

No, you didn't "won them." That means they were the prize for your victory. You defeated them.

Goat, not goad.

 

[Typist Clerk]

The joining of words that should not be joined drives me nuts.

Earlier this year I read a story about a redbrick house. We see and use backyard but never frontyard. I continue to see that "the game will kickoff at 7:00 pm" (which gives me hives and seizures) and also that "John will kick the ball off" instead of "John will kick off the ball."

We learn about someone's housecat but never a barncat. Or that someone is using a riflescope at the range or in the field.

The loss of copy editors, the good ones, along with the muddling attitudes of "Eh, just post it and you can maybe fix anything later." are a damned shame.

The New York Herald-Tribune was still using to-day in the 1960s. Maybe one reason why there is no longer a New York Herald-Tribune.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Goat, not goad.

Turns of phrase I've forked up over the years:
Stuck in my craw (not crawl. I always thought it was crawl space)
Toe the line (not tow. I thought the line meant you pulled the line with you not a foot race term)
And now get my goat. Here I was mistakenly thinking it was referring to goading me into something. Oh well.

 

[Brian J Walter]

Turns of phrase I've forked up over the years:
Stuck in my craw (not crawl. I always thought it was crawl space)
Toe the line (not tow. I thought the line meant you pulled the line with you not a foot race term)
And now get my goat. Here I was mistakenly thinking it was referring to goading me into something. Oh well.

Goad was correct, once upon a time. Like so many other things in the "English" we speak, it has been Americanized.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my brother.

That one always got me.

(But seriously, is it "you got another thing coming" or "you got another think coming"?)

 

[Spartan Squad]

Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my brother.

That one always got me.

I mean, that is always a must have when it comes to lovers

 

[swingline]

Toe the line refers to old time boxing. You had to "toe the line" before every round, or you lost.

 

[swingline]

It is crawl space, 'cause you have to crawl around under the house to thaw the frozen water pipes.