in reviews by more than 20 reviewers.  I check the online Webster-Merriam dictionary and Dictionary.com.  It is not listed there.  The ‘n’ and ‘u’ are separated by the ‘g’, so I am not sure it is a typo.

I found many return results in Google.  Almost all of them are used in the context of the word tongue.  I have not found a definition of it.  Is this a slang?  Any of you know its origin?

Thanks.

Reoes anyone know what exactly is the word (tounge)? I have seen it used in place of tongue…

It's a candidate for autocorrection -- shlal to shall, hte to the, tounge to tongue.  (Of course, unless a reviewer types his review in Word and then pastes it in here, autocorrection isn't available.) The frequency of the misspelling is probaby due to a combination of typographical errors by those who know how to spell the word; misspelling by those who have no idea how to spell the word; and jittery typing by those whose oxygenated blood supply is being diverted to their nether regions, thus depriving their brain of the stuff.

There's an asian toy called, "Tounge of Frog," in which the word tongue is mispelled.  These products often contain mispellings and broken english.  This is where you'll get any hits on most search engines.

Reoes anyone know what exactly is the word (tounge)? I have seen it used in place of tongue…

If you are posting this to ridicule poor spelling in TER reviews, then you might want to review the grammar in your phrase "Is this a slang?"... I think you meant to say "Is this slang" or "Is this a slang term".

Try playing Neverwinter Nights online sometime and see how many people play a "rouge" in lieu of a "rogue". There is just something about the -gue ending that confounds spelling.

O.

by the large amount of results in Google search.  As one can easily deduce from my many posts, English is not my native language.  I have to spend extra time to collect my thoughts and put them into readable sentences with minimal grammatical and spelling mistakes.  Needless to say, my college grade on English writing is quite low.

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Reefinitely the most mis-spelled word next to "definately."

...And nobody know's when to u'se po's'sessive's ju'st becau'se word's have an 's in them i's not a rea'son to u'se a damn apo'strophe in every ca'se.  Thi's drive's me nut's

is better than most American-born contributors here.

If only we egocentric Americans would take the trouble to learn another language, others wouldn't hate us as much, n'est-ce pas?

-- Modified on 6/6/2003 8:02:47 AM

Reefinitely the most mis-spelled word next to "definately."

Well then I just have to add one of my great pet peeves -- high on the list headed by my wife's aversion to blowing me -- which is reading -ly adverbs that are hyphenated with the adjectives they modify.  The hyphen makes an adjective an adverb.  An -ly adverb is already an adverb.  Thus, "red-colored item" is correct, but "lightly-buttered" should be "lightly buttered", as lightly is an adverb in the first place.

Oh well.  Perhaps if my wife would blow me I wouldn't give a fuck about -ly adverbs.

It's the difference between taking something lying down and taking it in the ass.

simple.

those are the folks who have baited breath - yuch! - instead of bated breath.