That $4 cup of coffee...

[Kumabjorn]

But you can't say "it still seizes to amaze me", could you. Actually, this might be a setup for a good comic routine.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by ScotiaBurrell

[bill_mchale]

Originally Posted by taustin

Beer is made with hops. Hops affect the taste of beer.

Actually technically not true... though good luck finding a commercial beer without some hops.

--
Bill

[ScotiaBurrell]

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

Hmm, doing a little search and I begin to wonder if it should be "cease".

seas.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

alright Swedish grammar cop, do your duty

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

Is it seize you react on?

Not to worry; it should be "all right." Alright ain't a word.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by issybird

Not to worry; it should be "all right." Alright ain't a word.

Darn, you caught it

[pholy]

Originally Posted by bill_mchale

Actually technically not true... though good luck finding a commercial beer without some hops.

--
Bill

Ahh - The LCB of Ontario brings in a sampler pack every Christmas of the "Historic Ales of Scotland" from Heather Ale Ltd. I quite like the Alba (pine and spruce flavoured ale) and Fraoch (heather ale); both are based on malted barley, of course.

At least I hope it's still every Christmas!

[pidgeon92]

Originally Posted by issybird

Not to worry; it should be "all right." Alright ain't a word.

According to mirriam-webster, it is:

Usage Discussion of ALRIGHT

The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing <the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>.

First Known Use of ALRIGHT

1887

[xg4bx]

Originally Posted by taustin

I do not like the taste of alcohol, either.

honestly, nobody does. . unless it's wine or a mixed drink, i've yet to have alcohol and think "yum, that's tasty". beer, whisky, whatever, is simply varying shades of tolerable.

[rhadin]

Originally Posted by issybird

Not to worry; it should be "all right." Alright ain't a word.

That's not quite correct. I wrote about all right vs. alright in On Words: Alright and All Right. As the American Heritage Guide notes, “The sentence The figures are all right means that the figures are all accurate, that is, perfectly correct, while The figures are alright means that they are satisfactory.…”, thus it may depend on the intended meaning as to which is the correct spelling. My article does note other views, such as:

Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage asks “Is alright all right?” and answers with a qualified yes: First, all right is more commonly used in print. Second, the authors of most handbooks for writers think alright is wrong. And third, alright is more likely to be found in trade journals, magazines, and newspapers than in more literary sources. (Is word snobbery at play here?)

The earliest use of alright in modern usage is by Chaucer in 1385. But once we leave Chaucer, there are no examples of either alright or all right until the late 17th-early 18th centuries when there are examples of all right but with all used as a pronoun, as, for example, in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719): “desir’d him to…keep all right in the Ship.”

For more discussion, please see my article.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

honestly, nobody does. . unless it's wine or a mixed drink, i've yet to have alcohol and think "yum, that's tasty". beer, whisky, whatever, is simply varying shades of tolerable.

So how do you acccount for the sales of non-alcoholic beer?

[soulfuldog]

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

But you can't say "it still seizes to amaze me", could you. Actually, this might be a setup for a good comic routine.

No you can't say it.
Stop!
Cease!
Desist!

Do not seize!

It's more taking hold of something quickly or forcibly.

Incidentally, what was this thread about again?

[Kumabjorn]

Something about coffee and the need to seize a $4 tip, I think.

[Phogg]

[i QUOTE=xg4bx;2193453]honestly, nobody does. . unless it's wine or a mixed drink, i've yet to have alcohol and think "yum, that's tasty". beer, whisky, whatever, is simply varying shades of tolerable.[/QUOTE]

Try Bacardi Superior Gold Reserve, Absolut, or Aged Jameson.

[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

Isn't there plenty of iron in red wine?

You're thinking of blood.