Commonly Confused Words: Gibe, Jibe, and Jive
Answers to Practice Exercises: Gibe, Jibe, and Jive
(a) The numbers in your survey don't jibe with those in the annual report.
(b) Napoleon's gibe [or jibe] that England is a nation of shopkeepers hardly applies any longer.
(c) "Dewey Phillips. the first DJ to play Elvis, was white but broadcast to a mainly black audience on WHBQ in Memphis. He took the slang, the jive and even the black accented speech.
He was one of many. On radio, with a teen audience, everyone wanted to sound black."
(Jonathon Green, The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang. Oxford University Press, 2015)
Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confused Words
(a) The numbers in your survey don't jibe with those in the annual report.
(b) Napoleon's gibe [or jibe] that England is a nation of shopkeepers hardly applies any longer.
(c) "Dewey Phillips. the first DJ to play Elvis, was white but broadcast to a mainly black audience on WHBQ in Memphis. He took the slang, the jive and even the black accented speech.
He was one of many. On radio, with a teen audience, everyone wanted to sound black."
(Jonathon Green, The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang. Oxford University Press, 2015)
Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confused Words
