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Oh go ahead! You know you want to...'-}} Terrie |
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>>but "more firmly packed" "firmly"...that's the word I was looking for...thanks! >>the real issue, "to prevent packed snow from turning into ice". Perzackly! Terrie |
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Let's not overlook the part about "to pervent hard layers of snow from becoming hardly packed." I suppose it would be hard for snow to become hard if it has been pervented. |
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That brine is exactly what the word implies -- it gets dribbled out of nozzles on the back of a moving truck, as a liquid. While "lathering" implies suds (later), "slathering" likewise carries connotations of a substance with significant body to it. You can "slather" toast with butter, and you can "slather" a surface with grease, but I just can't envision "slathering" anything with what is essentially [very] salty water. Furthermore, "slathering" suggests applying a somewhat uniform, thick coating of ... whatever. The brine applications aren't uniform. Right after it has been applied and had dried, when driving on a road that has been treated you see thin, parallel white lines running along the travel lanes. |
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He loved being a dentist. Did lots of post-grad work and published papers on all sorts of stuff in professional journals along with other dentists.
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Spell check is built into pretty much every self-respecting word processing program. In Word, I believe it's on by default but can be turned off, after which the operator had to remember (or bother) to run a spell check manually. Even if it's turned on, the operator has to be awake enough to wonder why so many words on the screen have those squiggly little lines under them. Some words get auto-corrected if typed incorrectly, but far from all.
I shudder to think what the auto-correction would be for "pervent" ... "... to pervert hard layers of snow from becoming hardly packed." ??? I'm not sure that's an improvement. |
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