Tham khảo tài liệu 'knowledge vocabulary1', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | file C Temp livres commonerrors errors Too bad the Elizabethan guard won out over the earlier French-derived spelling garde but the word was never spelled gaurd. The standard spelling is related to Italian and Spanish guarda pronounced gwarda. GHANDI GANDHI Mohandas K. Gandhi s name has an H after the D not after the G. Note that Mahatma great soul is an honorific title not actually part of his birth name. GIBE JIBE JIVE Gibe is a now rare term meaning to tease. Jibe means to agree but is usually used negatively as in the alibis of the two crooks didn t jibe. The latter word is often confused with jive which derives from slang which originally meant to treat in a jazzy manner Jivin the Blues Away but also came to be associated with deception Don t give me any of that jive . GIG JIG The jig is up is an old slang expression meaning the game is over--we re caught. A musician s job is a gig. GILD GUILD You gild an object by covering it with gold you can join an organization like the Theatre Guild. GOD When God is the name of a god as in Judaism Christianity and Islam Allah is just Arabic for God and many modern Muslims translate the name when writing in English it needs to be capitalized like any other name. When it is used as a generic term as in He looks like a Greek god it is not capitalized. If you see the word rendered G d or G-d it s not an error but a Jewish writer reverently following the Orthodox prohibition against spelling out the name of the deity in full. GOES So he goes I thought your birthday was tomorrow and I m--like-- well duh Perhaps this bizarre pattern developed in analogy to childish phrases such as the cow goes moo and the piggy goes oink oink . Is there any young person unaware that the use of go to mean say drives most adults crazy Granted it s deliberate slang rather than an involuntary error but if you get into the habit of using it all the time you may embarrass yourself in front of a class by saying something witless like So then
