Mold vs Mould

[Dale53]

Me? In one of the Forums I frequent (a GOOD Forum, by the way) someone opened a topic with the words "Smaller than deer" talking about small game. That just flat JARS me as the original quote was "Small Deer" (meaning small game is just as meaningful and satisfying from a sporting standpoint). I did a lot of small game hunting with a handgun and can TESTIFY that it is MOST satisfying. I thoroughly enjoyed taking my deer with a handgun, but also found it extremely gratifying to take cottontail rabbits, snowshoe rabbits, and grouse (as an example) with a handgun.

So, when I see "smaller than deer", it GRATES! On the other hand, the gentleman who wrote "smaller than deer" meant nothing derogatory.

So, I move on (more or less).

FWIW
Dale

[too many things]

Its all about U

[bedbugbilly]

Kind of reminds me of the old saying . . . . "don't sweat the small things in life".

[Petrol & Powder]

Its all about U

But that is funny

[Petrol & Powder]

Kind of reminds me of the old saying . . . . "don't sweat the small things in life".

I thought it was don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things?

[matrixcs]

How about GAGE or GAUGE.....
Looks like this topic could be going on for some time.

[Golfswithwolves]

Some words sound alike but still must be written correctly or else you look uneducated (to/too, there/their/they're, your/you're for example). Mold/mould must get a pass though since our British friends were first with their spelling after all. They also like to spell color as colour, and do other such things too.

[ArrowJ]

However I can't bring myself to alter bullet to boolit.

I tried it a couple times, but it makes me feel unedumacated.

[Grendl]

One of my pet peeves that I have seen is the lack of proper tense and the ignorance there of.....
I saw you, I have seen you, you will be seen, I see you;
I did not grinded anything.... you will grind, you have ground, I ground this, on and on and on
I have not casted anything... I have cast, you will cast, the pb is cast into gems of perfection.
Just sayin'
rick

[Doc Highwall]

I have to, too, two think about it!

[ArrowJ]

Related: I worked with a gal at the cable company that always told people that were paying their late bills that she could "cut their service on" for them. I waited until she was off the phone. Took a piece of paper and cut off the corner. Then I told her, "now you cut it back on".

[smokeywolf]

I use "mould" to identify something that is used to create a object of a particular shape.

I use "mold" to identify life form that typically grows in dark and perpetually damp place.

My peeve is not so much the difference between British English and American English, but illiteracy in general. How can one graduate high school and still write or speak, "Where you at?" or "Where was it at?".

[OptimusPanda]

Makes me wonder what action someone would take if you ask them to "draw you a bathtub of hot water".

[Mal Paso]

One of my pet peeves that I have seen is the lack of proper tense and the ignorance there of.....
I saw you, I have seen you, you will be seen, I see you;
I did not grinded anything.... you will grind, you have ground, I ground this, on and on and on
I have not casted anything... I have cast, you will cast, the pb is cast into gems of perfection.
Just sayin'
rick

Castigate?

[popper]

Mould container for making stuff. Mold verb for making stuff or noun bacterial collection.

[Aunegl]

The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

[Screwbolts]

It's Boolitz, NOT boolits

Ken

[gwpercle]

If we are voting :

Mold......fuzzy green stuff that grows in damp places.

Mould....what you cast boolits with.

[Guesser]

Just to cloud the issue even farther......I find myself typing "LOOB" when talking of bullet lubrication; somehow it just seems more gooder that way!

[smokeywolf]

Thanks Guesser. First post in a long time that had me expelling my morning coffee through my nose.

Hard to blow my nose and laugh at the same time.