QUESTION: How to spell...

I use relic'd, as the others really mean:

Relicked - relicking something, once again, just as you defined it.

Reliced - Who wants more lice? Again, we are on the same page, here.

 

Well, it’s not a real word. Kind of gives you a ton of leeway. Relic is a noun, it’s only colloquial use that has turned it into an adverb.

If it were me, I would probably favor “...turn into a relic” or “...give the relic treatment” or something like that.

Of your options above, I probably find “relic’d” the most palatable.

Get ready for a chorus of disgruntled folks that will insist that “relic’d” should be spelled “ruined” or “destroyed” or “devalued” etc.

 

It is just a "Relic" finish. "Relic" is trademarked and brand specific to Fender, like Kleenex or Zamboni. Legally speaking, they're "distressed finishes" when done anywhere else.

The verb would be "finishing" and the adverb would be "Relic"

 

Relish can have many exciting variations, I mince a seranno or anaheim for a southwestern flair. There are still some of the old colonial spit fights between the Brits and the Yanks about chutney infringement but I say let bygones be bygones.

 

Thanks for asking!

mimic
frolic
panic
relic

mimicked, mimicking
frolicked, frolicking
panicked, panicking
(you should be able to figure out the rest)

 

How to spell...

R O R Y!





The guitar still looked the same! But I call that a distressed finish!




greetings

Wise

 

Any noun can be verbed. We've been doing this a long time. Try it!

 

Guiltiest party for turning nouns into verbs is NFL analysts. “The Packers are tough to defense.” Or, you could use proper English and say, “The Packers are tough to defend.”

 

Relic is a noun not a verb so strictly cannot have a past tense. An apostrophe sits in place of letters that have been missed out. It's never the 'correct' spelling. Of the other two, I guess it depends whether you want to lick your bass again or give it lice again.

 

"String" probably wasn't a verb either until we started to string things (apply strings to them).

"Finger" is often used as a verb in reference to stringed instrument playing techniques. Before that it was just a noun.

"Mic" (or "mike") similarly is informally a verbed noun, generally accepted in the recording industry.

There are probably many other examples related to music.

Words don't have inherent meaning. They mean what we understand them to mean or what we agree they mean.

 

People who've never studied etymology often think that.

 

My guess is we would disagree on the meaning of the word "inherent". Nice ad hominem though.

 

Actually colloquially it is used as a verb - to relic something. It's not a real verb so it doesn't have a real spelling.

 

Rehlic’ed

 

While we're here, one "routs" a pickup cavity.
One "routes" a UPS or FedEX truck to your home for NBD. (Actually, software does it now, but that's immaterial.)

 

Is a router;

1. Someone that sends something by a particular path?
2. Someone who creates a channel in a piece of wood?
3. A device capable of creating a channel in wood?
4. A device that connects your computer to the internet?
5. A decisive defeater?
6. Someone who uncovers a hidden thing?
7. Someone who bellows loudly?

I'm gonna use my computer through a router to order some pickups then become a router and use my router to rout a channel in the bass body brought to me by a router in the local skirmish, who was the router of the truth about the loud router in the neighborhood. The router at UPS said I should have the pickups by next week.



If you get my drift. ( Oh-oh - let's not get started on "drift")

 

Carrot, carot, carotte, karot, carat, queso.