What is a wutfit?

MillieMaster
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edited December 2019 in Caravan & Motorhome Chat #1

I have just been looking through the current edition of the "Sites Directory and handbook" and noticed on page 3 under the Technical Information listing the following heading

"Powering your wutfit" which beggars me to ask, what is a wutfit?

Oh tut-tut, proof reading is essential when producing publications!

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  • JimE
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    edited December 2019 #2

    I believe a wutfit is related to an owtfyt laughing

  • EasyT
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    edited December 2019 #3

    For caravanners that would be carryvan and cur thrn.

  • JillwithaJay
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    edited December 2019 #4

    In the days when trained and qualified keyboard operators typed everything, they would also be responsible for checking that what they submitted was correct. 

    In these days where everybody has a keyboard of some sort, not many organisations bother to send stuff to the 'typing pool' so it doesn't get checked or proof-read and often not particularly well presented or displayed.

  • EmilysDad
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    edited December 2019 #5

    so it doesn't get checked or proof-read and often not particularly well presented or displayed.

    Isn't that the case. 'Work' though, had a load of roll up banners/displays professionally made ... working practices etc ... they were littered with smelling *istakes. 🙄

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2019 #6

    The way some caravans are turned out these days I would have thought notfit more appropriate.

  • Amesford
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    edited December 2019 #7

     you will find it fits on the laughing shaft next to the giggling pin

  • MillieMaster
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    edited December 2019 #8

    I am sorry, but I earned my crust in the publicity and associated industries and it makes my blood boil when I see or read tardy text!!

    All software and typesetting related programmes that I know of have some kind of spell checking facility so why the hell not make use them?

  • ABM
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    edited December 2019 #9

    I suppose, MillieMaster, that it depends on were the programme is from !!

    I'm a cross-word fan  & so many newspapers seem to be 'buying in' their puzzles from across the Atlantic ! Think I might have to go to Waterstones to order / buy American Dictionary &  Thesaurasisis .

     

    P.S. That stricture applies on here as well -- programme  is always underlined in red  grrrrrrrrrr.

  • ABM
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    edited December 2019 #10

    OOPS  That should have read :-- where  of course,  not were surprised

    G.C.S.E. English { Failed }

     

     

  • cyberyacht
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    edited December 2019 #11

    You mean you can't spell aluminum?

  • BlueVanMan
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    edited December 2019 #12

    In my past (professional) life I had a theory that organisations which produced poor and unprofessional documentation often didn't apply good standards of care or ethics to to other aspects of their work or service delivery.

    Although I am absolutely not suggesting that my above comment applies to the CAMC (and I usually manage at least one typo when posting here so I can hardly criticise an isolated lapse) it is a useful principal to think about. 

    I have put one in here just to check if you are paying attention at the back !!laughing

    Two actually which just proves my point !

     

     

     

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited December 2019 #13

    There ya go👍🏻😊-

  • MikeyA
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    edited December 2019 #14

    Got them both but the first one is easily missed and It needed a couple of reads!

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited December 2019 #15

    As did yours😀

  • derekcyril
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    edited December 2019 #16

    Stele a metal window cleaner ( failed )

  • InaD
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    edited December 2019 #17

    "Powering your wutfit" which beggars me to ask, what is a wutfit?"

    As we're on a mission to highlight grammar, spelling etc, forgive me, as I'm Dutch by birth, but I thought that should read: ........which begs me to ask.....

    Please enlighten me, as language, grammar etc is one of my interests.  And this is not a wind-up, I'm serious.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2019 #18

    I'm sure that you are correct, InaD. Beggars are people that beg, but is used in conjunction with belief as in beggars belief and means to be unbelievable or not deserving to be believed : to defy belief. 

    Hope this helps. However I have been known to be wrong and others may well have a different opinion to mine, and correct me. 

  • InaD
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    edited December 2019 #19

    Thank you, nellie.  I have heard the expression that something "beggars belief" in relation to something unbelievable, as you say.

    However, in the OP, I thought the correct word should be "begs", as there are phrases which are followed by "which begs the question........" or "which begs me to the following....." or similar.

    Not being pedantic, just out of pure interest.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2019 #20

    I agree with you InaD. It's nice when one see the language used correctly. I think that predictive text has a lot to answer for when mis-spelt words appear.

  • ABM
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    edited December 2019 #21

      dj, wot undecided

  • bandgirl
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    edited December 2019 #22

    I can see both of them. 😊

    One of the worst places I see mistakes, in both spelling and grammar, is in our local newspaper (and in their posts on Facebook).  Dreadful for an entity that’s based on the written word.

  • InaD
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    edited December 2019 #23

    You're right, predictive text sometimes makes for quite hard reading.  I don't like using it myself, so have turned that off.

  • ABM
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    edited December 2019 #24

    Sorry about the delay in responding CY, but my electronic thingummy kept on correcting you to Aluminium, so It took me a while to work out what you meant.  Now I understand a little better, even if I'm none the wiser.

    Incidentally this searching has shewn me why a couple of popular quiz programmes on television  now insist on using SULFUR where  Old World  folks use, mainly, SULPHUR -- they do it to help sales of the programmes in the U.S.A. apparently frown

  • cyberyacht
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    edited December 2019 #25

    As Churchill said "two peoples separated by a common language" wink

  • ABM
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    edited December 2019 #26

    Well, he was the start of his own version of the United Nations was he not  or, on second,thoughts was it perhaps,  NATO undecided  Darned parents have so much to answer for  !!

  • hitchglitch
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    edited December 2019 #27

    After working for several months in the USA it was suggested that I had gotten acclimated. I think that it was on a hump day.

    Hump day in case you are wondering is, of course, Wednesday as it is the middle of the week.

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