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Emilee :) asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

When you say 'It's a ******** image' is the word spitting or splitting?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    spitting

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Hey, Silly Turtle! I would also suggest to make the sentences flow a little more. Now for this part: "There was nothing for a split second, no world, and no thoughts, but everything came spinning back." I just feel like it was super rushed. You give the reader the sense that there is nothing and then snap! Oh, it's back to normal. That sentence almost seems unnecessary then. What was the point? If you are going to leave that, I would suggest to put a little more detail so the reader can truly imagine and sink themselves in it. Other than that, I loved it! Happy New Year to you as well! A new year = a new perspective on writing

  • 1 decade ago

    Spitting

    Source(s): US English speaker, but also... http://community.livejournal.com/word_ancestry/549... http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=s&p=36 Confusingly, that last one mentions "spitting image" under "spit" but also an 1880 reference to "splitting image" under "split". I've never heard that.
  • 1 decade ago

    Actually it's "spit AND image" but usually said as spitting image.

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  • 1 decade ago

    spitting image- guess you too young to remember the dodgy '80's puppet show...

  • 1 decade ago

    Spitting ,as in "they are so alike he could have spat him out"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i think its actually spitting

    but loads of people make it sound like splitting

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    splitting. lol. with the L.

  • ty
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    spitting

    no l

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    splitting defo

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