Can Anyone Use An Old Teacher?

If you are going to spell it catalogue, I think you should advertise as an olde teacher, just to be consistent.  Colour me picky.  If you find yourself in the poorhouse, may your gruel be fresh.  Cheers.

Both spellings are in my dictionary.....catalog first, defined as catalogue! only, and followed by catalogue, with a lengthy definition.  Of course, there are a whole lot of English words that should (shood?) be spelled phonetically, for nobody pronouces "should" the same as the "should" in shoulder.  When I checked a shop, they did not yet have either a new Lionel catalog or catalogue, so I hoped somebody would post something from it that was wild and exciting.

I wrote a love letter to a girlfriend, once. She was an English teacher who took exception to my spelling. 

Interesting thread about the English language, and yes, when is the last time you have used the words; shall, or whom? And how many people end a sentence with a preposition? "You are murdering the King's English"

Good luck on your new job prospect!

Scrapiron Scher posted:

I totalled up my order from the new Lionel catalogue today. I have to go back to work. Can anyone use an old teacher?

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I feel sorry for the folks starting out from Square 1 in this segment of the hobby using Lionel's new catalogs today.  Ouch!!! 

Charlie Ro offered a volume discount program years (maybe even decades) ago.  One of the levels was spending $5K.  I remember hitting that mark once, and I submitted all the yellow invoices at the end of the year.  If I recall correctly, I got the Pennsy GG-1 Congressional Set w/TMCC and 15" passenger cars with the store credit. 

Looking at Lionel's 2016 Signature Catalog, $5K is practically table stakes in the game today.  I don't think Charlie even offers the volume purchase program anymore -- at least not officially. 

David

An "olde" teacher wouldn't be wanted by schools today. You would know too much and not be PC. 

I had the same problem with dialog and dialogue.  Turns out they are slightly different.

Starting to watch way too many TV programs.  The misuse of the pronoun "I" is widespread - as in "Want to go to the bar with Sally and I?"

I got a teaching credential back when I was trying to stay in college forever.  Teaching is the most undervalued profession - I simply could not afford to join.

Not a good idea to write love letters to an English teacher! Very bad for romance when they come back corrected, covered in red ink!! Lol

What do you teach?

Scrapiron Scher posted:

I wrote a love letter to a girlfriend, once. She was an English teacher who took exception to my spelling. 

So what was your final grade from her Scrappy? I never was great at spelling, butt thanks to spell check I do better provided I pick the correct meaning for a word I want.

Jeez, Scrap, you at least should spell her name right! 

"king's English"?  Have you ever tried to understand Cockney English over a microphone on a train?  I missed my stop in southern England and had to pay to get back to it, and then, since made later because of that, missed a bus back to the RR station.   How about the "King's Spanish" where in Castilian Spanish in Spain, the language is spoken with a lisp, as though everybody had a speech defect, to mimic a king of hundreds of years ago?

Would the old teacher paint the exterior of my house?

I will paint the exterior of your house!Will paint for trains!!

Scrapiron Scher posted:

I wrote a love letter to a girlfriend, once. She was an English teacher who took exception to my spelling. 

I'm an engineer that married an English lit grad. We have communication problems, whenever I give hear a card she sends me a note saying it's 'dear not deer'. Sounds the same to me.

Bogie

Bogie, tell her at least you didn't send her love letters addressed "To whom it may concern" ! Lol

Great responses !

i laffed out loude !

Bogie sounds like an engineer  !!

I have to use both spellings living in Florida and the UK.  Cheque, Catalogue, Tyres etc.