Thursday, March 01, 2007

debate of the day

so here's what math grad students argue about on lazy thursday afternoons:

do you say oogle, ogle, or oggle? (rhyming with google, sounds like the o in ogre, or rhymes with boggle respectively)

i (from TN) used the one i consider correct and common at lunch today and baxter (from PA) disagreed and insisted on a second one. when we got to the office to look it up, john (from CT) disagreed firmly with both of us.

regardless of the dictionary, which one do YOU use?
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3 comments:

~ruthie said...

Ogle in the present tense. Oggle in the past tense. and never oogle, unless it's preceeded by a G. :)

for example:

"did you just ogle me?"

and

"yesterday, I felt like I was being oggled".

4:56 PM
lara =) said...

i definitely say oogle. always.

the oggle people seem ok with ogle and vice versa, but have a prejudice against the oogle people.

it's a bizarre discussion, because there are definitely 3 competing dialect choices but they don't match geographical regions at all.

go figure.

5:12 PM
Anonymous said...

I say oggle.
Sorry La, but oogle just sounds wierd. :)

9:00 AM

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