It's CollinGs, not Collins!

[lfoo6952]

How do you know that Collins was not intended? There is a guitar builder named Steve Collins.

[RP]

Bill Collings had a vision. It was to have a group of people create instruments that possessed the soul, sound and perfection that he tirelessly pursued and ultimately achieved. Though his physical presence is absent, his vision and principles have been instilled in the skilled team he selected and trained to continue his work and now his legacy. There is no substitute for hard work or the pursuit of perfection. Bill embodied these principles and so too does our team, which is dedicated to the same artistic mission he originally envisioned. Bill Collings will forever be in our hearts and minds while his life’s work will continue, unfaltering, in the hearts and hands of the Collings “family.”

I like a grammatical faux pas as well as the next guy, but the legacy that Bill Collings created and left behind trumps a spelling mistake....

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by RP

Bill Collings had a vision. It was to have a group of people create instruments that possessed the soul, sound and perfection that he tirelessly pursued and ultimately achieved. Though his physical presence is absent, his vision and principles have been instilled in the skilled team he selected and trained to continue his work and now his legacy. There is no substitute for hard work or the pursuit of perfection. Bill embodied these principles and so too does our team, which is dedicated to the same artistic mission he originally envisioned. Bill Collings will forever be in our hearts and minds while his life’s work will continue, unfaltering, in the hearts and hands of the Collings “family.”

I like a grammatical faux pas as well as the next guy, but the legacy that Bill Collings created and left behind trumps a spelling mistake....

So totally agree with these and your sentiments.

[Larry Pattis]

Actually, dreadnaught/dreadnought is correct either way.

However, I have never owned a “Carlton” (Calton!) case.

[tbeltrans]

Originally Posted by robj144

Why do people spell definite, definate? Why do people spell loose when they mean lose? Why do some people refer to Olson guitars as Olsen?

Who knows?

Another strange example I see around here is folks using "weary" for "wary". There are quite a few of these grammatical oddities in most any forum.

One problem I have noticed in myself as I get older, is that I have begun to reverse pairs of letters. It seems as if my hands are starting to go out of sync with each other.

The funny thing is that this happens when typing, but not when playing piano, which is similar in terms of each hand doing something different, using similar motions at the same time. This is different from the guitar, where each hand is doing something very different to produce one note (fretting with one hand and plucking with the other to produce the note.

Tony

[architype]

"Supposably" instead of supposedly. I hear well educated people make this mistake all the time.

[JCook1]

I so often hear people saying (in speech, not online) "reelator" for a person who sells houses, instead of realtor (which is pronounced "reel-tor"). That drives me crazy, as does "nucular" instead of nuclear. Sometimes I think people just don't learn the correct ways to pronounce words, based on what they hear around them. That is, after all, how we learn to speak, simply by hearing and absorbing it. I knew a person once what thought the phrase "used to it" was actually "used of it." I couldn't convince him otherwise. Maybe this is how languages evolve.

Jack

[architype]

It may be a local thing, but I've noticed people saying "ideal" instead of "idea"....as in, "I have a good ideal!".

[Silly Moustache]

Because I don't (yet) have an ads blocker on this macbook pro, I'm being bombarded by ads for Grammarly ! The cheek! I know my Grammar!

[ahorsewithnonam]

I could care less. Many more important things to do than worry about some random guys grammar.

[Dru Edwards]

To be honest, often I need to Google whether it is Collings or Collins because I keep forgetting.

[rokdog49]

Originally Posted by ahorsewithnonam

I could care less. Many more important things to do than worry about some random guys grammar.

Yeah...who cares anyways.
Anyways ....aaaughhhh!

[tbeltrans]

Well, now I understand why our culture seems so angry much of the time - abuse of our language has gotten out of control.

Tony

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by Paddy1951

And those are great symbols!

Nicely plaid.

[Brucebubs]

Look ... they got it wrong too.



p.s. ... and it's Pete Townshend with an 'h' ... not Townsend!