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"And I Love Her" Lyrics
I have a question regarding the lyrics for this song. Is "You'd love her to" intentionally misspelled? I know that would be in line with Lennon's humor, but just wondering. Thank you! — Preceding
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21:13, 22 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Surprisingly, googling "And I Love Her" + "You'd love her to" gives over a million hits, while "And I Love Her" + "You'd love her too" gets less than 100,000. Of course some of the former include other uses, such as "you'd love her to pieces", "you'd love her to know", "you'd love her to the point of going mad", etc, but the first pages of search results I went through were all only about the lyrics. Obviously a lot of copying has been happening here, I wonder where
"website zero" would be in this case. ---
Sluzzelintalk21:35, 23 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Alright, a refined search of ""And I Love Her" + "And if you saw my love" "You'd love her to(o)" now gives over 200,000 for "too" and less than 90,000 for "to". I don't understand these numbers at all, but there are a lot of different lyrics websites using "to" instead of "too". ---
Sluzzelintalk21:55, 23 May 2014 (UTC)reply
My impression is that a lot of lyrics sites have incorrect spellings, and, often enough, incorrect words. Many of these sites are unofficial, created by fans and other enthusiasts. I wonder if there has ever been an objective analysis of the general, overall accuracy of them?
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22:27, 23 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Or maybe a little joke being played by the transcriber. But more likely either misunderstanding the lyric, sloppy proofreading, or just not knowing the right spelling. I've seen a lot of folks write "to" when they mean "too". ←
Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→
20:23, 24 May 2014 (UTC)reply
That particular error is becoming worryingly common. And it seems to be a relatively recent thing, which suggests to me that many misspellers actually know the difference but prefer to ride on the "too = to" bandwagon in order to be seen to be fitting in, and in so doing, dumbing themselves down to the lowest possible level. Education used to be top-down; now it's becoming bottom-up. The exponential rise in information availability has been matched by a corresponding drop in people actually having knowledge of stuff we used to take for granted. This is progress? </rant> --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries]06:17, 25 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi, can anyone tell me about the Open channel, which I believe was the UK's first interactive shopping channel in 1999. I know it launched on 12 October and was available through Sky Digital. Is it still on air? If not, what was its fate? I found a couple of references announcing its launch, but not much else. Can anyone help? Thanks.
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22:45, 22 May 2014 (UTC)reply
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May 22 Information
"And I Love Her" Lyrics
I have a question regarding the lyrics for this song. Is "You'd love her to" intentionally misspelled? I know that would be in line with Lennon's humor, but just wondering. Thank you! — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
768regnar (
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contribs)
21:13, 22 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Surprisingly, googling "And I Love Her" + "You'd love her to" gives over a million hits, while "And I Love Her" + "You'd love her too" gets less than 100,000. Of course some of the former include other uses, such as "you'd love her to pieces", "you'd love her to know", "you'd love her to the point of going mad", etc, but the first pages of search results I went through were all only about the lyrics. Obviously a lot of copying has been happening here, I wonder where
"website zero" would be in this case. ---
Sluzzelintalk21:35, 23 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Alright, a refined search of ""And I Love Her" + "And if you saw my love" "You'd love her to(o)" now gives over 200,000 for "too" and less than 90,000 for "to". I don't understand these numbers at all, but there are a lot of different lyrics websites using "to" instead of "too". ---
Sluzzelintalk21:55, 23 May 2014 (UTC)reply
My impression is that a lot of lyrics sites have incorrect spellings, and, often enough, incorrect words. Many of these sites are unofficial, created by fans and other enthusiasts. I wonder if there has ever been an objective analysis of the general, overall accuracy of them?
HiLo48 (
talk)
22:27, 23 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Or maybe a little joke being played by the transcriber. But more likely either misunderstanding the lyric, sloppy proofreading, or just not knowing the right spelling. I've seen a lot of folks write "to" when they mean "too". ←
Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→
20:23, 24 May 2014 (UTC)reply
That particular error is becoming worryingly common. And it seems to be a relatively recent thing, which suggests to me that many misspellers actually know the difference but prefer to ride on the "too = to" bandwagon in order to be seen to be fitting in, and in so doing, dumbing themselves down to the lowest possible level. Education used to be top-down; now it's becoming bottom-up. The exponential rise in information availability has been matched by a corresponding drop in people actually having knowledge of stuff we used to take for granted. This is progress? </rant> --
Jack of Oz[pleasantries]06:17, 25 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi, can anyone tell me about the Open channel, which I believe was the UK's first interactive shopping channel in 1999. I know it launched on 12 October and was available through Sky Digital. Is it still on air? If not, what was its fate? I found a couple of references announcing its launch, but not much else. Can anyone help? Thanks.
This is Paul (
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22:45, 22 May 2014 (UTC)reply