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Swap not "swop"

I am frequently irritated by "should of" instead of should have

Today I have been irrationally infuriated by someone using the phrase "toot sweet" and it was a post from a few days ago so too late for any response that didn't make me look like a rabid frother

WTF is "toot sweet"

Fabulas!

"His" instead of "he's" oh I could go on

Never mind OP you're taking it with good grace

You definately loose the argument now OP

I'd love to hear the rant against "toot sweet" timidvipder, rapid froth away!

That's wrong OP.

I think you'll find you can use either.

(Psst Worra it's definitely...)

Your a fool.

Oh sorry Worra, have I been a bit sloowwwww

Oooh are we pedanting? Can I put in my personal vote for "been" instead of "being".

I was led down .......

You lot are ridikulus

Rediculous.

DD wanted to get me this for Christmas, but I'm not allowed hot drinks in the classroom

Bowlers!

It made me cringe just typing it

"Toot sweet", I presume, is a phonetic typing of Tout Suite which is a French phrase meaning right away. WTF would you attempt to use a foreign language if you don't recognise it enough to spell it?

Sorry, rabid froth over!

Reign instead of rein.

timidviper But it's a phrase that's been in English with that spelling for almost 100 years, yes it's almost certainly from the French. I'm sure though it's heavily used by people who don't know a single word of French just picked it from their families.

So to criticise you're making assumptions about the etymology that are unfair. Or were you criticising the soldiers in the trenches for adopting the handy phrase?

Ah, toot sweet, I was racking my brain about what Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had to do with the discussion?!

Sorry, wracking!

I want to know what a swop is??? Why is the spelling autocorrect quite happy with it?

I really struggle to use swap because even though I know it's correct it just looks wrong!

Both swop & swap are acceptable in the OED.

I don't think swop is particularly acceptable, it's a previous spelling that is still hanging around in the dictionaries, it's lost out everywhere hasn't it?

It's not really any more acceptable than þe for the is it?