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I have noticed, over my perusals of the boards here, a stunningly high number of mistakes when it comes to referring to those little bits of plastic to which all of our favorite minis are attached. So, in an effort to curb this epidemic, I present the following in order to inform and educate.

This is a sprue. The plural is "sprues."


This is a spruce. This particular one does not, in all likelihood, contain any models or wargaming miniatures.


Do not be fooled by your browser's spellcheck. You can rest assured that sprue is a word and is in fact the correct term.

With Christmas quickly approaching, we may be seeing the occasional box of minis new-on-spruce. Until then, however, I'll take mine on the sprues.

lol, I was at a con this week with a couple of guys who told me a story about a couple of kids selling a giant box of spruces. I laughed then and I shall laugh now.

To add to this, I have also noticed a large number of people spelling Turret wrong

they tend to put Turrent . . . its Turret people

Lucid wrote:To add to this, I have also noticed a large number of people spelling Turret wrong

they tend to put Turrent . . . its Turret people

Oh yeah that's another really bad one. I've seen it in some bitz stores as well. NO WONDER I couldn't find those razorback weapons I was looking for.

Lucid wrote:To add to this, I have also noticed a large number of people spelling Turret wrong

they tend to put Turrent . . . its Turret people

I've never seen 'turrent' anywhere. But at least it's just a spelling mistake, unlike when people confuse "their", "they're" and "there" and completely confuse a sentence.

Another is "Ordnance" spelled "Ordinance".

I have a local business competitor that advertises that

"No job is to big or to small!"

I advertise that I can spell "too".

How about when they use dwarfs not dwarves ! you dont have a army of "dwarfs" as you have to call them p.o.r.g's now anyway !
you have a army of dwarves lol

{Person Of Restricted Growth}

CURNOW wrote:How about when they use dwarfs not dwarves ! you dont have a army of "dwarfs" as you have to call them p.o.r.g's now anyway !
you have a army of dwarves lol

{Person Of Restricted Growth}

Well...umm... http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/landingArmy.jsp?catId=cat440017a&rootCatGameStyle=

CURNOW wrote:How about when they use dwarfs not dwarves ! you dont have a army of "dwarfs" as you have to call them p.o.r.g's now anyway !
you have a army of dwarves lol

{Person Of Restricted Growth}

I think Dwarves vs. Dwarfs has roots in Tolkien, at least. Keep in mind that plural forms are more or less just rules of thumb, and not hard and fast rules. I've seen discussion about it before... I think it may have been an intentional stylistic choice to help differentiate "short, hairy, mountain-people born from the mountains" from "people with stunted growth that can get a reality show these days if they have an interesting job."

Spruces for Sprues has annoyed me for quite a while, too. It almost got to the point where I stopped commenting as I thought it might have been British English, much like the use of 'whinge' instead of the US 'whine.'

I think it's mostly gone away, but you used to see people confuse 'runes' and 'ruins' a lot online.

I think it's mostly gone away, but you sued to see people confuse 'runes' and 'ruins' a lot online.

Litigation over world choice? I endorse this product and/or service.

Laughing Man wrote:

I think it's mostly gone away, but you sued to see people confuse 'runes' and 'ruins' a lot online.

Litigation over world choice? I endorse this product and/or service.

I always mistype use/sue it seems. On the plus side, I do know the difference between a tree and a plastic frame.

You quite often see people typing Emperor.

Rogue/Rouge is another bad one too. Pretty prominent, and just as glaring.

Zefig wrote:Rogue/Rouge is another bad one too. Pretty prominent, and just as glaring.

Angel/Angle! I love hearing of the exploits of the Blood Angles!

(I am amused by my own inability to spell/type in a thread complaining about people's spelling skills...)

Another sprue issue that bothers me is "sprew."
It bothers me only slightly less than spruce.

Emporer, pratect me! Send the Blood Angles and Ultramarnies in all there glory too pratect my modles and spruce!

Eric

hey man I totalyl dont half too cut all my gaurd of there spruce or b gluing their tank turrents on when i verse my litle brother cuz we verse on vassal...i play on my labtop!

Phew. That even hurt me. Oh, and "intensive purposes".

My most common spell check error is squeal, because for some reason I am dyslexic as hell and every time I spell it squeel and spell check it as sequel. And on a side note I LOVE orks, but can't stand when people talk in Ork style language just annoys the piss out of me for some reason.

Catyrpelius wrote:lol, I was at a con this week with a couple of guys who told me a story about a couple of kids selling a giant box of spruces. I laughed then and I shall laugh now.

They wouldn't happened to have been involved with an organization called NJ Gamer, would they? A couple of heavier set gentlemen... occurred at an auction... kids had ridiculous expectations of getting like a dollar per bit or something like that? I assume that the con was the warstore weekend...

Kilkrazy wrote:You quite often see people typing Emperor.

...That's because it's actually spelled Emperor...

chaos0xomega wrote:

Catyrpelius wrote:lol, I was at a con this week with a couple of guys who told me a story about a couple of kids selling a giant box of spruces. I laughed then and I shall laugh now.

They wouldn't happened to have been involved with an organization called NJ Gamer, would they? A couple of heavier set gentlemen... occurred at an auction... kids had ridiculous expectations of getting like a dollar per bit or something like that? I assume that the con was the warstore weekend...

Those would infact be the gentlemen. Would you by any chance be one of those gentlemen?

Emporer, pratect me! Send the Blood Angles and Ultramarnies in all there glory too pratect my modles and spruce!

I think I just went cross-eye'd and had an aneurysm.

I may have to add that to my signature after I have recovered.

Worms

daedalus wrote:hey man I totalyl dont half too cut all my gaurd of there spruce or b gluing their tank turrents on when i verse my litle brother cuz we verse on vassal...i play on my labtop!

Phew. That even hurt me. Oh, and "intensive purposes".

Oh jeez, don't even get me started on "versing."

Balance wrote:
Angel/Angle! I love hearing of the exploits of the Blood Angles!

Not sure why, but that one doesn't annoy me nearly as much. Maybe it's because I've taken advantage of it to snag some juicy deals on ebay that no one else can find because they're actually searching for the correct army name.

Fraction instead of faction

Mute instead of moot

Rouge instead of rogue

droid instead of druid. This is an audio one though. I have not seen it typed.

versing should not be used because it sounds dumb and is not a word. Noticing that one more lately and it bugs me

One of my favorite posts hase been because someone misspelled or missused verse, and someone took it to mean a verse of peotry. The thread spawned another thread of awsome/awful 40k poetry. . . I have to find that again . . .


If anyone does find it would you be so kind as to throw up a link?

Laughing Man wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:You quite often see people typing Emperor.

...That's because it's actually spelled Emperor...

No, it's not.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/115025.page

i c no probs on dis topik
corse i is also a produkt ov da kaleefornya skool sistem so is i am smarterer den most of yooze.

(and I vote....BWHAHAHAHA)

I've never heard anyone ever say "Spruce".

Guy in our group pronounces "Hatred" "Hat-red" (Hat as in I'm wearing a hat, and red as in the colour). It's weird.

I just remembered. Some people end thier pleading with "please advice" instead of Please Advise

or they screw it up the other way around and ask for "advise" instead of Advice

Zefig wrote:This is a spruce. This particular one does not, in all likelihood, contain any models or wargaming miniatures.

You mean they don't grow on trees?

My #1 peeve is "of" instead of "have": "I could of..."

Almost as annoying are all the F-word alternatives: fething, frakking, freaking, fricking, frigging, etc.

Say what you mean, mean what you say...


Finally, there's the sheer, gross, ignorance of people like my brother-in-law who once asked me how many pixie-cells my monitor has.

To be perfectly honest, while I reserve a particular level of scorn for mixing 'their' 'they're' and 'there', any mistake inevitably gets to me In my defence, my full-time job is as a copywriter/proof-reader, so I have to be picky!