Going from DSLR to R... does the lack of a top deck LCD bother you?

BobKnDP wrote:

Distinctly Average wrote:

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Remarkable.

Almost no one ever says what was originally correct, "Head Up Display" (not "heads up").

Perhaps you never "hone in" on anything either. (It's "home in".)

“honed in; honing in; hones in. intransitive verb. : to move toward or focus attention on an objective. looking back for the ball honing in George Plimpton. a missile honing in on its target Bob Greene.’

“Hone in” and “home in” are both acceptable options in the English language.

Obviously it depends on the dictionary you use, the Oxford English states things slightly different to Merriam-Webster as above. Both Collins and Cambridge give a similar meaning. Ignore the Microsoft dictionary as it blue screened at its first smeg ion of start meaning stop.

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I didn't check the dictionaries.

To me, that just means that the malapropism is older than I thought.

To me, missiles home in on their targets. Honing is more or less a synonym for sharpening.

And there is no such thing as a honing pigeon.

Dictionaries can be controversial. I recall Nero Wolfe (Rex Stout's sleuth in a series of mystery novels) burning a dictionary in his fireplace one page at a time because it listed "infer" and "imply" as synonyms. (It was surprising to me, because I had never seen that usage at the time.)

And don't get me started on those who say "perpetuate" when they mean "perpetrate".

And I'll have to get one of those T-shirts that state "People who misuse the word literally drive me figuratively insane."

Or who say "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less".

However, when it comes to proper usage, do as I say, not as I do.

people mixing up the words jealous and envious is one that irks me. Worse still is the use of x instead of * in spoken terms. Times is a multiplier, x In mathematics is an arbitrary term. Just a pet hate.