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Jan 2020
10:18pm, 29 Jan 2020
60,572 posts
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swittle
'premissa', med. Latin, 'things mentioned before'. [Latham, R. E., (2008) 'Revised Medieval Latin Word-List', Oxford: Oxford UP.]
In documents such as conveyances, 'premissa' are details already written earlier in the document, such as parties, nature & location of property et al. The use of 'premissa' removed the need to write the details into the document again and again.
'praemitto', class. Latin, 'send before, in advance'. 'praemissa', 'things sent in advance'.
[Lewis, C. T. & Short, C. (1969), 'A Latin Dictionary', Oxford: Oxford UP]
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Mar 2020
2:51pm, 2 Mar 2020
3,830 posts
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z1000jeff
If I were to write you a note saying, "Please make sure to tidy you're room", have I made a grammatical or a spelling error?
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Mar 2020
2:56pm, 2 Mar 2020
6,008 posts
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Northern Exile
Both?
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Mar 2020
4:47pm, 2 Mar 2020
19,121 posts
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Dvorak
If "room" is the designated term for the person in charge of tidying, I think that there should be a colon after "tidy". Also, "Room" should probably be capitalised.
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Mar 2020
6:46pm, 2 Mar 2020
18,902 posts
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ChrisHB
Interesting question. I would go for a grammatical error.
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Mar 2020
9:08pm, 2 Mar 2020
19,374 posts
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Columba
Agree with NE. Both.
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Mar 2020
10:18pm, 2 Mar 2020
33,740 posts
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LindsD
Ditto.
But at Dvorak
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Mar 2020
3:45am, 4 Mar 2020
1,009 posts
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JCB
Good one Dvorak!
It's a joke note. So that the person reading it aloud pauses and questions the "you're" (in their head) and people listening wonder why the querying intonation at the end ("please make sure to tidy your room?")
But seriously, it's a homophone, they've chosen the wrong spelling. Since it's a spelling for something else that doesn't make grammatical sense, I suppose that would make it both.
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Mar 2020
7:58am, 4 Mar 2020
11,984 posts
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Badger
My gut reaction was that it’s a grammatical error, but then I started wondering how I’d categorise “I’m going to fly on a plain tomorrow.” Right part of speech, correctly spelled word, but the wrong word. So that’s a spelling mistake and this is both.
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Mar 2020
8:56am, 4 Mar 2020
19,388 posts
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Columba
I have seen "they're" given as part of a standardised spelling test (each word given in the context of a sentence, of course, which clarifies meaning).
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