And then there is accept vs. except, and advice vs. advise, and affect vs. effect, and on and on...
I'm twitching with you.
(I just finished answering a couple of questions about my latest translation/editing of a 25-page anthropology treatise, authored by a Japanese friend of mine - good English-language speaker and writer, but she asks me to do the grammar and syntax checking on most of her submitted publications these days since the English language is still the pits to work with, even if you are a native speaker, and these are research-journals papers.)
Oops! My mistake. I had remembered it incorrectly. I was thinking of J. R. R. Tolkein's use of the expression, which comes on page 23 of Houghton Mifflin's 1984 copy of The Hobbit (illustrated by Michael Hague). It reads thusly:
"Hear, hear!" said Bilbo, and accidentally said it aloud. "Hear what?" they all said, turning suddenly towards him, and he was so flustered that he answered "Hear what I have got to say!"
I apologize for my error.
Though what I find most interesting is the lack of commas before quotes, as in Bilbo's answer there on the last line.
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Date: 2008-03-10 12:14 am (UTC)I'm twitching with you.
(I just finished answering a couple of questions about my latest translation/editing of a 25-page anthropology treatise, authored by a Japanese friend of mine - good English-language speaker and writer, but she asks me to do the grammar and syntax checking on most of her submitted publications these days since the English language is still the pits to work with, even if you are a native speaker, and these are research-journals papers.)
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Date: 2008-03-10 04:43 am (UTC)-=TK
[EDIT] Yes, Murdillate. It's a cross between murder and mutillation. [/EDIT]
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Date: 2008-03-10 04:41 am (UTC)-=TK
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Date: 2008-03-11 04:47 am (UTC)I apologize for my error.
Though what I find most interesting is the lack of commas before quotes, as in Bilbo's answer there on the last line.
-=TK