Very, Very, Very Important Post. Very.

[Left Is Write]

Okay, maybe not all that important.

All right. It's not important at all. It's PETTY.

Very, Very, Very Petty.

Here goes:

It is not "ice" water. It is not "ice" tea. It's iced. Iced, iced, iced. Iced water. Iced tea.

Did you know that if you post the word "iced" enough times, it looks strange and foreign?

No, I have not been drinking OR taking Ambien. :D

[KitchenWitch]

1. "flustrated" are we?

:rofl:

[Bjornsdotter]

2. but what if

.....my ICED tea is frozen, then is it ice tea?

Cheers

[Left Is Write]

5. No, then it's tea ice.

:crazy:

[Bjornsdotter]

Drat

..foiled again.

Cheers

[RetroLounge]

30. Nice correct usage of "it's."

:applause:

RL

[TOhioLiberal]

3. Don't that just frost ya?

:rofl: Sorry, my silly is running rampant tonight. :rofl:

Could I have some ice water? Or some Ice tea? :hide::yoiks:

[Writer]

4. Kick!

For yet more grammar greatness!

:woohoo: :bounce:

[Zomby Woof]

6. I have the same obsession with apostrophes

I can't tell you how many signs I see these days which get the apostrophe wrong.

"Espresso's"

"Todays Special"

"No Pet's Allowed"


And on and on.

How a'bout some ice tea's? :crazy:

[Left Is Write]

7. The only thing worse than "espresso's" would be "expresso's"!

[Kali]

8. nope

ice water, iced tea:P

[Left Is Write]

11. Nope. The water is iced. The tea is iced.

Iced water.

Iced tea.

And, with a nod to Lex, iced coffee.

[Bjornsdotter]

18. what if

....the water is naturally cold but no ice has been near it, but its as cold as ice?

[Left Is Write]

20. Then it is just water, or, if you're looking for a good adjective, it's "icy" water.

[Bjornsdotter]

24. Ooooo

....You're good.

Cheers :toast:

[Random_Australian]

31. And there is only one 'm' in ethylendiamine tetraacetic acid.

It's not automatically a ligand, MORONS!

Sorry, pet peeve & compulsive habit to have an obscurer pet peeve than everyone else. :)

[Kali]

43. mine is the pronounciation of zoology

[mike_c]

51. hah!-- me too-- and I'm a prof of...

...zoh-ology!

[Lex]

9. But it's "ice coffee" right?

I keed! I keed! :P

[Left Is Write]

10. Grrr.

No. It's iced coffee!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Supposably, irregardless of what others say.

:P

[KitchenWitch]

19. Freak!

:freak:

[wildhorses]

13. why?

:shrug:

first the ice

then the fluid

and, too much hassle to pronounce the 'd'

:shrug:

[Zomby Woof]

15. Just for that

We're going to call you 'wilhorses'. :P :hi:

[wildhorses]

21. oh lordy

:rofl:

:hi:

[bridgit]

14. at starbucks it is referred to as: 'iced coffee', yes...

[RoyGBiv]

16. I've been drinking and taking Ambien ...

And now I want some ice water.

:hide:

Hey, at least I didn't do it as a separate thread.

[Iris]

40. oh dear god. Go to bed, Man! n/t

[deucemagnet]

17. Even more petty, but oh so annoying...

...it's fudgesicle, not fudgicle dammit! :grr:

[some guy]

22. but

if it was ice, then it was left out and thawed, then is it ice water?

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

47. No. It's water.

[MadMaddie]

23. But....but...but...if you are from the south....then it is ice tea and

ice water...

And gasp....every soft drink beverage is coke.....

bwah...haw..haw..:rofl:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

38. Yes, and all southern "ice tea" is sweet.

You want the unsweetened stuff, move north.
:rofl:

[amitten]

25. You're making me feel disorientated.

Yes. I now feel I am less from the Orient.

[Lex]

67. That's the correct way if you're British.

disorientated

[trackfan]

26. I would say "ice water" is idiomatically correct

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ice%20water

likely derived from "iced water", with an elision of the d.

[fishwax]

68. I think "ice tea" is the one that is idiomatically correct

whereas ice water is simply correct. With respect to water, I think "iced" is probably (and by far) the less common of the two. :)

[Hissyspit]

27. That's a pet(ty) peeve of mine, too.

[Inchworm]

28. one large unsweetened iced tea please.. easy ice

A line I use often and only get at the places I frequent.

:hi:

[Bunny]

29. I feel the same way about baked beans.

It's baked, BAKED, beans! Not "bake" beans, goddamnit. :grr:

[Left Is Write]

46. People say "bake" beans?

:spank:

[LostinVA]

32. THANK YOU

And, it is "faze," not "phase." BUCK naked, not BUTT naked.

[1gobluedem]

34. And TROUPER not TROOPER

As it "you're a real TROUPER." It dates back to travelling acting troupes, vaudeville, etc.

[Left Is Write]

45. Yes.

When I say something didn't "faze" me, I wonder how many readers are shaking their heads and thinking, "Poor thing doesn't know how to spell 'phase.'"

I'm with you on the buck naked thing too. How did that morph into butt naked?

[LostinVA]

56. And, sooo many people do both

[cobalt1999]

33. My pet peeve is "very"

To quote Mark Twain...

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

[begin_within]

36. "Very" has no meaning... same for "many" or "soon"

[Iris]

41. very doesn't mean very much n/t

[1gobluedem]

42. I hate 'very unique'

Unique means 'one of a kind' so something is either unique or it isn't. There are no degrees of unique.

[Zuiderelle]

57. Yes, only insane people say that.

:thumbsup:

[1gobluedem]

61. I guess I must know a lot of insane people then

Because I hear it a LOT. :hi:

[Zuiderelle]

62. I won't judge you by your friends then.

:)

[Left Is Write]

44. I'll consider that when I'm writing something more relevant than than the OP.

Of course, Mark Twain might have realized that my use of the word "very" in the OP was merely a device to demonstrate my tongue-in-cheek attitude and that the subject matter wasn't actually important at all.

:P

[cobalt1999]

48. Oh I know.

I just couldn't resist. :)

[begin_within]

35. I had a college roommate who spelled it "ic te"

He made a list of what we needed to buy and the first thing on it was "ic te." I asked him, "What is this?" and he said, "Iced tea." And somehow he had managed to get a high school diploma.

[driver8]

63. But did he get a college diploma?? n/t

[begin_within]

71. I think he flunked out the first semester.

[Mad_Dem_X]

37. That bothers me, too

One of my language pet peeves. Along with the phrase "Should have went." UGH!

[Iris]

39. ha! ha! My local grocery store has an aisle for "can foods"! But the worst is "sell" for "sale"!

[reyd reid reed]

49. That one gets to me, too...

but what's even worse is when I hear people talking about some kind of sale that might be going on and, instead of saying it's "on sale" they say it's "for sale". Of course it's 'for' sale. It's a freakin' store isn't it? Everything's 'for' sale. That's why it's on the freakin' shelf!

:crazy:

[Iris]

64. LOL! n/t

[JVS]

50. Iced Cream?

[Left Is Write]

54. Only if you're drinking cream over ice.

[bikebloke]

52. A sign in Nepal

ICE TEA

HOT AND COLD

[Left Is Write]

55. Hmmm. Nothing like hot iced tea.

:rofl:

[Critters2]

53. And "media" is a plural noun, Goddammit!!

I will shout this from the mountaintops until the media get it right!!!

[kwassa]

58. No, it is Ice T

and what you got to say about that?

[edbermac]

59. Why do people call it a 'hot water heater'?

Hot water doesn't need heating.

Figure that one out. :P

[Critters2]

60. I've always found this bizarre. nt

[JoePhilly]

69. And why call them Buidlings when they are already Built?

[Neoma]

70. Things like that are absolutely everywhere in the english language.

Like how fireflies are actually beetles...

[SKKY]

65. And just to add something to this thread, please people, listen to me!

"IRREGARDLESS" IS NOT A WORD!!! STOP USING IT!!!!!!

[fishwax]

66. You're wrong about water but tea can go either way

:)