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Glee Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

uncharted or unchartered?

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00These should be two different words, right? But in some context, these two words seem to share the same meaing. Why?02br
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00Also, I'm looking for a verb to mean "(muster the courage to) tell one's crush that one likes him/her." Is there such a verb? Can we simply say "confess one's love to someone?"02br
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0Uncharted means it's not on the chart, particularly an island that's not on the map (chart) of the area. If you ventured into uncharted territory, no one knows what it looks like because no one has ever made a map of the area. It can be used metaphorically to mean doing something no one has done before.

— BarbaraPA

  • 0Uncharted means it's not on the chart, particularly an island that's not on the map (chart) of the area.
  • If you ventured into uncharted territory, no one knows what it looks like because no one has ever made a map of the area.
  • It can be used metaphorically to mean doing something no one has done before.
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  • I wonder if it was a typo if it looked interchangeable with uncharted.
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0Uncharted means it's not on the chart, particularly an island that's not on the map (chart) of the area. If you ventured into uncharted territory, no one knows what it looks like because no one has ever made a map of the area. It can be used metaphorically to mean doing something no one has done before. "Marking toothpaste as a building material would be taking personal hygiene products into un
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0Thank you, Grammar Geek. Here I give two googled sentences to help express my confusion. Could you have a look and give your opinion? Thanks again.02br
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00(1) In recent years there have been a number of groundings of tourist ships in shallow, 01font00poorly chartered02font00 waters and also accidents involving fishing boats in
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0Hmm. It does seem to be used a lot, so perhaps it's a case of a word's evolution. If you SAY char-tid and char-terd they sound a lot a like, so maybe people have used "unchartered" when the right would should have been "uncharted" for so long that it's now an acceptable definition, at least in common use. 02br
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00If you Google "Unchartered territories" and then "Uncharte
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01cite10Glee12cite10(1) In recent years there have been a number of groundings of tourist ships in shallow, 11font10poorly chartered12font10 waters and also accidents involving fishing boats in pursuit of the Patagonian toothfish. 12br
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0My appreciation to MrPedantic and Grammar Geek.02br
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00The misuse of "01font00unchartered02font00" for "01font00uncharted02font00" is so widespread that I had actually learned the former first before I encountered the latter and had to summit this question.02br
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0I think it is. Thanks a lot, MrP.0-
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Hmmm.... Wouldn't you want to say "profess my love" versus "confess my love"?
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Thanks for the clarification, and I wholeheartedly agree. I only questioned uncharted/unchartered because in a recent email I sent I obviously fat fingered something and the resulting spell-check left the correct spelling as, "unchartered."
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Did you say shar-ted? Cuz my boy did that yesterday, blamed it on his dog. Charted is the answer. Americana messes with so many word that are used improperly. I consistently make jokes and they fly over everybody's head.
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Haha!! Now im convinced.. Seriously. Totally worth the time I spent going into a depressed literary coma.
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