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Swap not "swop"

What is "comma splicing" please?

Comma splicing is using a comma to join two full sentences. A full stop is preferable, or a semi-colon sometimes works instead.

Just to clarify... It is actually 'tout de suite' in French and NOT 'tout suite'.

reluctant, I do that comma thing all the time, I annoy myself with it too!

timidviper No it's spelt "toot sweet", has been since the first world war when it was anglicised, as noted by rattitude it's not written "tout suite" in French at all.

It's not a phrase from another language, it's an Anglicisation of a foreign phrase - although I believe some French pronunciations would drop the de, but I could be completely wrong on that.

Just to follow on from the gecko thing, I remember a poster once wrote on here....

'It's a doggy dog world"

It killed me

I was once asked what I was doing for mahogany

From our AIBU Correspondent

It has been noted with some disquiet by our more thoughtful readers in this forum's wide and varied membership that there have been recent signs of trouble on the far borders of the topic. It would appear that this great and mighty realm is under assault from the previously peaceable tribe of Pedant's Corner. Who knows what malign forces have instigated this attack on the benign, thoughtful rule of AIBU from these normally gentle, misguided souls?

We fear that this evil may have been orchestrated by mischief makers from such remote, arcane districts as Telly Addicts, or even Baby Names.

With apologies to the late Michael Wharton

Oh no! Make a run for it, chaps. We've been rumbled!

Arf

I am a bit of a pendant

Yeah but I couldn't give a shite about its/it's

Well i fucking do. It's a big deal to me for good reason

I wonder how this thread would have turned out if i'd got the title correct?

DameDeepRedBetty, I think you'll find that it is "Pedants' Corner" (the corner of the pedants, not of the pedant).

If you Google it (and, of course Google is always right ) it allows "tout suite", "toute suite" or "tout de suite" as a French phrase used in English to mean right away. This other forum has discussed it too here

Toot sweet is shown only as a link to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, not a phrase in common usage, so I still maintain that I am right and everybody else, everywhere, ever is wrong and shall now stick my fingers in my ears and sing la-la-la before anybody tries to convince me that this offensive mis-spelling is anything other than an aberration!

timidviper

Here's the quick OED:
www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/toot-sweet
and here's the fuller one:
www.oed.com/view/Entry/203329
(you can log in with your library id if you're in most of the UK)
Lots of references there (Punch, Nevil Shute and others)

And you can see its usage vs toute suite and toute de suite in books:

books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=toot+sweet%2Ctoute+de+suite%2C+toute+suite&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctoot%20sweet%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctoute%20de%20suite%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctoute%20suite%3B%2Cc0

toot sweet appears to be winning as the spelling quite handily, and toot sweet is even rising in popularity since the 60's which actually surprises me and suggests that is now an established phrase not from the French.

Doggy dog world

Love that nearly as much as the gecko!

FredFred La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la! Can't hear you!

Timid, this is one instance where a Google search generates misleading results.

'Tout suite' is listed on this website. However, the information is shit in this instance as it states "From French toute de suite", which is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.

So, interestingly, Google actually has references going back well before the OED's earliest reference, e.g. this one from 1830

books.google.co.uk/books?id=8D8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA50&dq=%22toot+sweet%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3eXBUpW3D6O80QWy24GIDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22toot%20sweet%22&f=false

Although you probably have more reason to complain about that one as it actually says it's "as the French say"

This one from 1834 just uses it though...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=SoIVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA108&dq=%22toot+sweet%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mubBUu2oB4js0gXylIGIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22toot%20sweet%22&f=false

(why do I keep looking up Toot Sweet...) I was even back working today, so the Christmas boredom has finished.

Fred, I suppose the French say it that way. They do not write it that way though. wink

Rattitude I'm not even convinced the French do it say that way, I didn't think they did - but I can't ask any French friends as it'll out my mumsnet secret identity.

Fred, I have inside information here. We (!) either say it 'toot sweet' or 'tood sweet'.

Possible exception would be a Southerner's pronunciation of the expression.

Insider information

I prefer "inside information" myself...