Boring Favour

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Wed, 2006-03-08 09:29

Boring Favour

I know this should be on the Writing Tips forum but, I figured it would be looked over being so far down the list. Just a quicky...
Could I take a straw poll of you lot as to a spelling? If something collapsed like a concertina, would it be
concertinered
or, as the more formal examples seem to spell it
concertinaed
or, is there another spelling out there?
I would go with concertinaed, but it looks so odd. This is the final, final, final proof read cos. I've got to send it off by tomorrow. Any thoughts?...

Wed, 2006-03-08 09:35

archergirl

I've googled it, and it says, 'concertinad', which looks wrong, somehow, but so do all the other versions... this isn't much help, sorry!

Wed, 2006-03-08 09:36

Curious connie

Lou, it's spelt concertinaed.

Wed, 2006-03-08 09:56

2Lou

Thanks Connie. That did seem to be the version the more learned sites were using, but a friend stumbled over it whilst proofing. I'll go with it though. Educate the masses - that's the thing. Ta p.s. I overly rely on Google cos. my dictionary has pictures in - maybe I should update it.

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Wed, 2006-03-08 11:10

Brooklands

What about Concertina'd? Joe

Wed, 2006-03-08 11:17

pepsoid

www.wordwebonline.com says... concertinaed (&, incidentally... concertinaing) :-) * P * :-)

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Wed, 2006-03-08 14:36

2Lou

Thanks for the input, chaps.

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Wed, 2006-03-08 15:05

tcook

Definitely 'concertinaed'. 'Squished up' is an alternative spelling.

Wed, 2006-03-08 15:15

2Lou

Oh I rather like, squished up. May be a word too many though - it's a very long sentence as it is. Ok - just to bore you further - this is the sentence it's meant for (it's about the ugly newborn syndrome) oh and I know I shouldn't really start it with So, but... Enough detail? Really tedious now? - Ok: 'So try and do the same for the poor babe whoâ€™s spent nine months sloshing about in amniotic fluid like a boil-in-the-bag cod steak, and the last two weeks with his malleable little face concertinaed against your cervix.'

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Wed, 2006-03-08 15:58

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archergirl

Although *technically* it should be the corona of the head, and not his little wee face, that is concertin...ah...squished up against the cervix, but that's a mere trifle...heh all the other options seem to be prepositional...squished up, pressed up, mushed up, folded into.... nah, maybe concertinaed works best...?

Wed, 2006-03-08 16:35

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tcook

So you know it's a boy! How about: 'squashed' or 'pushed' or just 'up'. I like squished up though.

Wed, 2006-03-08 16:36

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archergirl

Squished up is certainly how they look when they come out...

Thu, 2006-03-09 13:48

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pepsoid

Nowt wrong with starting a sentence with "So"! Or "And" or "But" anything like that... the joys of 'creative licence'! :-) * P * :-)

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