Underhill

If I see one more mis-use of site for sight I will scream!!!!!

A sight is something that you go to see. A site is where the sight is located.

On the internet, a site is also a location.

starrsville

It died a timely death, Thank God! Let it remain deceased.

Eloise

Underhill:

I feel with you. Sight and site bother me even more than advice and advise. Not to mention itinery...

But I think we're fighting a losing battle: spelling is in danger of becoming a lost art.

tedgale

Underhill: No spelling complaints permitted on Fodors!

Indeed, one more eruption from you and we will have to summon the "spelling police" -- as per the slagging I got on a previous thread.

(Not from you, of course, but from the "civility police")

I too enjoyed the spelling thread.

And with that harmless observation, I bid you good-night.

Jolie

Hope I don't get in trouble for asking this, but how do I spell Coliseum (coloseum? colosseum?). It makes a difference because I never know how to spell it when I am trying to do a google search. It's not a typo either - I just flat out don't know how it's supposed to be spelled.

Thanks in advance.

Leely

Well, I misspell it all the time, but I'm pretty sure it's Colosseum.

I think.

Jolie

Thanks, Leely!

cigalechanta

coliseum is also correct.

Cassandra

Also, it's "itinerary."

Eloise

Cigalechanta: Having come to know you as one of the truly kind people on this board, I hate to disagree with you, but "Coliseum" is not correct in any language. The closest is "Colisée", which is, of course, the French name.

Jolie: In Italian, it's "Colosseo".

Betsy

Underhill, thanks for getting the site/sight distinction out there. I posted the same thing on the "answers" thread. Drives me crazy!

Mary_Fran

Off the subject a bit, did any other Fodorites hoot and howl over President Bush's recent speech, where he objected to Amnesty International's criticism the prison at Guantanamo.

Amnesty International apparently relied on information provided by detainees, whom our President described as, "people who hate America, people that have been trained in some instances to disassemble, that means not tell the truth."

cigalechanta

Eloise, I just checked in my dictionary. It is also correct. I noticed Mylesaway used the spelling.

cigalechanta

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildi...Colosseum.html

Eloise

Cigalechanta: I stand or, as it happens, sit corrected, but it's the first time I've encountered that spelling in years of reading about Rome and its architecture and history.

Jolie

I'm just glad there is more than one way to spell it - I don't feel so bad anymore. I think I'll try "Colosseo" from now on!

Underhill

How about we just call it that big arena in Rome? Oops! More than one.

Underhill

Cute, tedgale.

ahotpoet

Mary Fran
I saw it happening and could only shudder

guykb

Hmm tedgale - so you have bidden us good-night eh?