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Style note: You'll thank me later

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by SF_Express, Sep 21, 2007.

  1. SF_Express

    SF_Express Active Member

    OK, this is really narrow, but it's bugging the hell out of me, and I saw it again today in an AP story and a headline.

    If you're a bad guy or a boxer or an MMA fighter, you don't "whoop" anybody, for god's sake.

    You "whup" them.

    This "whoop" business is showing up all over the place, and driving me crazy.

    After you're done, you might whoop it up.

    But while you're kicking the shit out of somebody, you're whupping them.

    OK?
     
  2. spaceman

    spaceman Active Member

    then why do we open a can of "whoop-ass" ??
     
  3. ostentatious

    ostentatious Member

    whoop there it is, i thought you knew?
     
  4. SF_Express

    SF_Express Active Member

    Well, in my view, they don't

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=open+a+can+of+whup+ass
     
  5. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    No g on there, either.

    It's a "whuppin'"
     
  6. Some Guy

    Some Guy Active Member

    outside of a direct quote, I have no use for either.

    The word is "whipped." Whoop (or whup) is just a bastardized slag version of that.

    I would never use the word y'all in copy, either.
     
  7. Bingo. There's no place in your copy for either "whooped" or "whupped." For Christ's sake, we're journalists, not rappers.
     
  8. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    All bets are off if you're a Texas (A&M) Aggie. WHOOP!
     
  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Even in quotes?
     
  10. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

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    Boy, I'm whooped.
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Dec 15, 2014
  11. John

    John Well-Known Member

    I don't think this is anything I'll ever have to worry about.
     
  12. Some Guy

    Some Guy Active Member

    Hence the first five words of my post: "outside of a direct quote."
     
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