Anyone else automatically type "boolit" besides this site?

[ghh3rd]

Since I've been coming to this site I've found that I automatically type "boolit" everywhere, whether I'm on this site or not. Has this happened to you as well? I even noticed several instances of "boolit" on the Firing Line forum - perhaps from members of this site who have also posted on that site.

I'll be checking future editions of the Webster dictionary to see if it becomes a new word

Randy

[Bret4207]

Guilty. Of course anywhere else the nazis immediately jump on you for it too.

[Pete D.]

Nope. Not me. Too many years teaching English to allow myself the luxury of misspelling.
Pete

[randyrat]

I sue Boolits for cst an bullets fr coper.....
Pete, i had to do it.

[jonk]

Nope. Not me. Too many years teaching English to allow myself the luxury of misspelling.
Pete

Ditto. I don't teach English, but I do teach a language (German). The whole 'boolit' thing- well I get it but I still find it annoying. It isn't just 'boolit' either; also sillywet, soupcan (still don't know what that is unless a full wadcutter) etc. But for such a great bunch, I can deal with it.

[felix]

My son, fluent in Arabic, was hired for one summer by a University in Lebanon to teach slang to businessmen traveling to the US. Best example was the term "belly-up". Yes, we have our own slang on this board, and, hopefully it does not spread too far to other boards. "Thataway" you will know they got their education here. ... felix

[DragoonDrake]

I was writing a mock proposal for one of my classes and am using firearm use. I get the paper back with boolits circled. The professor could not figure out what this was supposed to be.

[madman]

Yup. Seen it in a few places and I have typed it also.

[45nut]

I was writing a mock proposal for one of my classes and am using firearm use. I get the paper back with boolits circled. The professor could not figure out what this was supposed to be.

That's priceless right there.

[runfiverun]

i do it all the time, haven't been questioned on it.
they either know, or think i am an idiot who shoots lead in rifles,and huffs too many lead fumes.

[BruceB]

Put me up against the wall with Pete and jonk.

I'm uncomfortable with "boolit", even though I DO use slang expressions from time-to-time.

There must be some wavering in my position though.....one of my co-workers was looking over my shoulder some time back while I was typing something here on CB...he asked. "Why do you sometimes use 'bullet', and other times spell it 'BOOLIT'???" No, I wasn't referring to jacketed ones, either.

Keep it up, guys; I must be weakening.

[Gunslinger]

When I first started reading on this forum, I couldn't figure out why the heck some of you spelled it boolits, and I was too ambarrassed to ask

I really like the fact that you spell it one way when you're talking about jacketeds and another way when you mean cast

And now I do it too

[Hickory]

I use to work in an iron foundry, with quite a few mexicans (long time American Mexicans born here) And they would say Boolits all the time. So, that is not new to me. However, the term smelting is an improper term for reducing lead from a solid to a liquid.
Smelting is done to extract a mineral from ore. And I can live with smelting as well as melting.
Good site, good folks.
Mark Twain once said that he never had much use for a person who could spell a word only one way.

[GP100man]

i`m guilty too , it`s easier to type out too.
never recieved any flak about it though.
& the only bullets i have are for rifles now!!!!

GP100man

[Riverrat]

To me, having our own "lingo" is part of the fun of this site!! I love all of the spelling quirks. It adds to the arcane feeling.

Ed

[Blammer]

but soupcan is spelled right...

and yea I catch myself spelling boolit elswhere

[jforwel]

Guilty, and I also use the term smelting to signify the difference between melting and cleaning dirty lead and casting boolits.

I see a few posts about the definition of smelting but I see it as a slang term on this site known and used by many.

[jhrosier]

I used 'boolit' in a thread on the swiss rifles forum and the moderators edited my post to "correct" my error.
The thread was a protracted rant about the use of the word 'boolit' and what a bunch of uneducated hicks we are over here.
I was just poking them with a stick for fun.
They didn't think that it was funny at all.
I've been throwed out of better places than that.

I have learned more, had more fun, made more friends, and swapped more stuff over here since I joined than in all of the other forums, combined.

I spel boolits pritty gud to.

Jack

[runfiveswife]

i do it all the time, since i started coming here. but oh well all i use is cast anyway

[hydraulic]

Cast Boolits is the only reason I own a computer. I don't like misspelled words, either, but I can live with it. Winnie and Remmi and shoty makes me grind my teeth.