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You PEDAL a bicycle, using your PEDALS.

If you "peddle" something, you are trying to SELL something (mostly an item unwanted or not really necessary)

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Agreed, but then you drop a few clangers yourself - it's "For God's sake..." Also try some capitalisation.

 

It can also be "For god's sake" All depends on which of the 35000+ gods you are making reference to. But I agree on the Capitalisation. :D ;)

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My favourite is Suit and Suite

 

Suit = It suits me or I am wearing a safari suit

 

Suite = Bathroom suite or lounge suite (Prononouced sweet)

 

It would suite me if I had XT breaks - :huh:

 

If you are wearing a safari suit, it would suit you better to can be laaiking to use your breaks

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Whilst you lot are at it:

 

 

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Whilst you lot are at it:

 

 

The punctuation workout for sticklers and rookies alike.

 

The punctuation panda is back!Armed with a permanent marker, a smidgen of confidence, and a copy of Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave?, everyone now has the chance to become a member of the punctuation elite.Established punctuation sticklers:Fine-tune existing skills, taking guilty pleasure from testing your (already somewhat unsettling) seventh sense.

 

Confused novices:Never again inflict flawed and perplexing punctuation on your innocent readers.The only official workbook for the international bestseller Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Introductory Cosmo-style questionnaire helps readers identify their level of punctuation prowess. Mirrors the structure and light-hearted style of Lynne Trusss hugely popular Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Topics include apostrophes, commas, colons and semicolons, hyphens and more. Each chapter concentrates on one particular punctuation mark. Origin, usage rules and their exceptions introduce the entertaining activities which have a challenge-yourself format. The bite-sized exercises in each chapter and longer texts in The Final Challenge put punctuation skills to the test.

 

http://www.takealot.com/books/can-yo...rback,10800263

 

HAH! Gotcha!

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You PEDAL a bicycle, using your PEDALS.

If you "peddle" something, you are trying to SELL something (mostly an item unwanted or not really necessary)

 

Paddle. It is spelled P-A-D-D-L-E. :thumbup:

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Not me, it's a copy/paste from stealalot.

Just goes to show. You can't believe everything you read!

 

There you go with the 'alot' thing again!

 

You aren't having a good one, hey?

 

***BTW. There is a no-poll poll flying, It needs some Mod attention!

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