It's peloton - with an 'o'!

John Stevenson

The word for a group of cyclists in a road race is 'peloton'.

Not 'peleton'!

So I have just set up the forum swearword filter to change it when people get it wrong!

Now that's what I call abuse of admin powers

Kléber

If only Cycling Plus had such fine spell checking

John Stevenson

Well I don't claim we're perfect on BikeRadar, but this is one of my pet peeves.

I am probably sensitised by 6 years editing reader letters on Cyclingnews!

iainf72

While you're at it, can you do something about people who can't spell McEwen?

DaveyL

How about dealing with the grocers' apostrophe next?

John Stevenson

iainf72

Sure - what are the common misspellings?

DaveyL

I wish - the word filter only deals in whole words. And I'm not going to wish for an automatic intelligent system to fix these things as it'd put us editors out of jobs!

woodford2barbican

Unfortunately the one that I find most annoying does not involve a spelling mistake, but a mistake of context.

Brakes Vs Breaks.

That sets my teeth on edge!

John Stevenson

woodford2barbican

Another one for the HAL 9000 word processor I'm afraid.

McEwan -> McEwen added though.

iainf72

John Stevenson wrote:

iainf72

Sure - what are the common misspellings?

People put a K in it - I'll find an example and pass it over.

knedlicky

iainf72 wrote:

While you're at it, can you do something about people who can't spell McEwen?

The other weekend, at the start of the Tour, I heard someone on the radio talking about a Robbie 'Macker-wen', as was McEwen pronounced by the speaker.
I was pleased (?) to hear that not only the foreign names get mispronounced.

(The speaker didn't sound like a big cycling enthusiast as such, just someone who enjoyed the excitement of sprint finishes, so knew a couple of sprinters' names)

DaveyL

You might also want to have a word with the Greg Proops sound-a-like on the podcast. A vast litany of offences, but his pronunciation of "Peyresourde" was the most "out there" I've ever heard. Can you also inform him that he will be Brad Gibson for the rest of his life, and not just until the next episode of the podcast

ricadus

Any chance of having proper quote marks and apostrophes instead of inches and feet symbols?

i.e. “ ” and ‘ ’ rather than " '

andy_wrx

Thank god I'm not the only pedant in here !

Spell-check 'pel-A-ton' as well as 'pel-E-ton' whils you're at it please John

But then I put 'c0ck-up' in last week (with an o rather than 0 obviously) and your spell-filter sanitised it to 'fool-up'


I'm with woodford2barbican on 'breaks'

- but what about 'curb' rather than 'kerb' ?

And as for 'sportif'...

ms_tree

For me it's the pronounciation of Italian names (as I've been struggling to learn the language for about 8 yearsI)
Bianchi is not Bianchee it's Beeankee
Chicchi is not CheeChee (that was a panda) but KeeKee.
I double checked with my teacher not to look stupid!!

rustychisel

Ha, funny.

Can you ensure that every single person who says "nu-cu-lar" is irradiated the moment that mis-shaped word leaves their lips? Please?

Kléber

Welcome to pedant's corner.

andy_wrx wrote:

And as for 'sportif'...

I think you have got that wrong, even if people in Britain like using the word cyclosportive.

"Sportif" is the male adjective of "sport" in French, with "sportive" being the female adjective. So a cyclosportif can be a man who likes cycling, but it can also be a concept such as a "club cyclosportif", a cycling club, or a route, for example a "parcours cyclosportif". Sometimes the French talk of cyclosportives but this is just an abbreviation of "épreuve cyclosportive", "course cyclosportive" or "randonée cyclosportive", all using female nouns so the female adjective is used.

SteveR_100Milers

Ms Tree wrote:

For me it's the pronounciation of Italian names (as I've been struggling to learn the language for about 8 yearsI)
Bianchi is not Bianchee it's Beeankee
Chicchi is not CheeChee (that was a panda) but KeeKee.
I double checked with my teacher not to look stupid!!

and it's pronunciation btw....

ms_tree

I knew someone would pick that up!!
Another one for you(an I've checked!)
Cheula = KeUla

W5454

People that use "loose" instead of "lose" :x

campagchris

Can you tell duff oiled its hushovd and not hush vod time your being picky :roll:

RichN95.

I've only just realised that Vande Velde is two words not one.

synchronicity

Thanks, I didn't know that... about the word peloton

cougie

Peleton. Just checking.

Hey - thats sweet !

Belv

attica

Just been reading the other thread about Millar

Can you please work the magic against the spelling Miller

Glad I'm not the only pedant in the world.
Does anybody else hate the following:-

Regular instead of Medium
spelling words with a Z rather than an S (e.g. synchronise)
Center, Theater, Catalog
Prounoucing Aluminium as Aluminum

and don't get me started about incentivise, what's wrong with the word encourage FFS

mr_hippo

Attica wrote:

and don't get me started about incentivise, what's wrong with the word encourage FFS

I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who dislikes the American habit of using 'ize' to convert a noun into a verb.
I spotted this wonderful example of mangled English on a Thai site for English teachers:- "Infact, in most cities Thigh's[sic] don't suffer verbal abuse." I don't think that you could classify that as a typo!