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grinder220 
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 10:01am |
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Two words that I've seen spelled two different ways by people and curious how you spell them.
A. duals or duels
B. Disc or disk
I was really curious on the proper spelling of disc-disk so I looked in the books "The allis chalmers storey" and "allis chalmers farm equipment " and in each book spelled it was spelled different.
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jiminnd
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 10:09am |
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My opinion, duals is right, disc I have seen both ways, I think both are right.
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CAL(KS)
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 10:10am |
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duals are mounted. duels are fought. and Disk. that's my opinion lol
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 10:32am |
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Disc and disk are both the same a sharp round flat object according to Webster's you work the feild with a disc harrow a harrow with sharp round discs
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 10:57am |
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A "disc" is a piece of tillage equipment.
A "disk" as i was taught was short for "diskette", the old square floppy thing that you put into your first computer and stored files on.
Here's another one...is it axel or axle?
Edited by steelwheelAcjim - 19 Apr 2018 at 10:59am
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Pre-WW2 A-C tractors on steel wheels...because I'm too cheap to buy tires!
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 11:36am |
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axel is an ice skating move axle is what your wheels and tires go on.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 11:51am |
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Disc, Duals, axle
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 12:20pm |
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poTAto - potaTO and the most often misspelled word "separate".....and I would bet in the AC farm equipment it was spelled 'disc' ? Down thru the years , and in different areas each is used. I had an Ohio State grad and a Mississippi State alumni almost come to blows over the c or k useage... one day at the Memphis region office - one does not go out and do some discing without being reprimanded by Ms spell check... but one can be found disking ,,,, We would sell you a disc or a disk - just tell us the size and weight :-)
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 2:03pm |
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Dual is for tires
Duel is for a gunfight
Disk is for a piece of farm equipment, or a computer disk as it is short for diskette
Disc is for a round flat geometrical shape
Axle as in shaft
Axel is a proper name
Edited by Bill_MN - 19 Apr 2018 at 2:05pm
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 3:53pm |
 Bill_MN wrote:
Dual is for tires
Duel is for a gunfight
Disk is for a piece of farm equipment, or a computer disk as it is short for diskette
Disc is for a round flat geometrical shape
Axle as in shaft
Axel is a proper name
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 4:03pm |
Bill_MN, you are spot on. I am amazed or more likely dismayed at the number of people these days that can not spell and/or interchange words like to, too, or two; they're or their; lose or loose. I'm just a dumb old country boy but I had a red headed aunt who was my freshman English teacher and she didn't cut me one bit of slack. I guess she scarred me for life. 
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 4:38pm |
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I was always unsure as to disk and disc, but my Allis manuals say "disc" harrow, so that's what I use now. I agree disk is short for diskette.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 8:03pm |
Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote:
I'm just a dumb old country boy but I had a red headed aunt who was my freshman English teacher and she didn't cut me one bit of slack. I guess she scarred me for life. |
I think we need way more like her today, a teacher that can scare the crap out of the whole bunch all at once. One misuse of words that cracks me up is are for our 
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 8:17pm |
Bill_MN wrote:
Disk is for a piece of farm equipment, or a computer disk as it is short for diskette Disc is for a round flat geometrical shape Axel is a proper name
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Disc and disk are pretty much interchangeable.
Axel is perhaps even better known as an ice skating maneuver.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 10:17pm |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2018 at 10:24pm |
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i amgoing to tell you guys right now ifeel good about getting words spelled good enought to be sounded out or copy numbers down and not get them mixed up
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 12:06am |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 12:07am |
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fart or phart
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 3:30am |
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What really makes me grind my teeth is when someone writes "prolly". Its probably, Idiot!
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sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?"
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 4:25am |
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I'm with JayIN on that one. I never once heard 'prolly' until I read it on this Forum.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 4:49am |
It was prolly me... just saves keystrokes...
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 5:40am |
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I'm still trying to figure out there "welp" came from? That one drives me crazy.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 5:45am |
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There are LOTS of words used in differing parts of the country that a person would not know about if not for travel or reading them on the I net.
I grew up hearing and using pertnear or was it two words, pert near? Commonly (or used to be anyway) used term in southern MN.
Edited by Butch(OH) - 20 Apr 2018 at 5:47am
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 6:01am |
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On the Agco parts book on line, search for "DIS", leave brands set to all brands.
Disc is by far the more popular.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 8:45am |
Here is another one Yooper and Upper. Yooper is a human that speaks Yoopanese and lives in the UP (Upper Penisula of Michigan.) I speak some Yoopanese but it is a hard language to understand.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 8:53am |
Butch(OH) wrote:
There are LOTS of words used in differing parts of the country that a person would not know about if not for travel or reading them on the I net.
I grew up hearing and using pertnear or was it two words, pert near? Commonly (or used to be anyway) used term in southern MN.
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Pert near is common in Oklahoma as well.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 8:59am |
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Greg, that may have came from below the 33rd parallel
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 10:30am |
I was PROLLY one of the ones that used pertnear before. My wife comes from far enough south in Illinois that she say "window seal" instead of window sill
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 2:14pm |
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Grandma would straighten any bod out on proper grammar. Didn’t matter who you were. However i was always poor at spelling. One word that bothers me is iregardless. It’s a double negative and spell check just accepted it. Regardless covers the point just fine.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2018 at 3:57pm |
Tire or Tar?
Creek or crik?
Neither had I ever seen "prolly" before frequenting the tractor sites.
However, I would not call anyone an idiot for using that misspelling.
I consider myself a fairly good speller but I seem to have gone down hill since grade school when I was one of the two best spellers in the whole sixth grade class.
I don't necessarily consider one's spelling a measure of his intelligence and although I might chuckle at some misspelled words, I try to get by that and concentrate on the content of the message which might contain a lot of good information.
I always shy away from criticizing spelling on this site for fear of screwing up a word in my message.
However, as I was typing this, spellcheck corrected me at least three times. LOL
Ain't technology great? LOL
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