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biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

Thanks for the support Steiner...you can take a horse to the water but you can't make it drink right?

dyak · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 630

Ironic how a thread entitled, 'Give it a rest, guys' is now 7 pages (too) long.

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

And on the seventh page, he rested.

There are, after all, only so many ways he could say:

Corey · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 112 Location: Canada

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

For what it's worth, I have heard "prize" used in such a way. I always thought it was spelled "prise," though. My dictionary lists both spellings.

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Steiner · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 573 Location: Hunan China

Yep, prize and prise. See them used like this fairly often in books, hear it sometimes in conversations. "Prize it out of his greedy little hands" doesn't strike me as unusual. Of course we don't use it as often as pry. Pry is shorter and easier to say.

There is no such thing as a prize bar. The etymology--from prize lever--is from 1686. We don't use prize levers anymore, not under that name anyway, but we still use the verb that came from the noun.

biffinbridge · Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 701 Location: Frank's Wild Years

It could be that it's not used that often in Canada but it is in England.As for the S and Z spellings listed, a lot of words that end in 'ise' or' ize' can be spelt in both ways..it's simply a difference between North American and and English spelling that's all.Corey,just give it a rest your attempt to be patronizing or is that patronising???made you look both foolish and inexperienced.Maybe you should start posting on the newbie forum until you've gained some more knowledge.

Corey · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 112 Location: Canada