10-01-2014, 09:02 AM
(10-01-2014, 08:58 AM)stupac2 link Wrote:[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=10753.msg100046#msg100046 date=1412134548]
[quote author=Kathy link=topic=10753.msg100045#msg100045 date=1412133808]To jell is to become firm or crystallize. The verb "jell" applies in the team context.
Gel is a noun (from gelatin) and a verb (the action of becoming gel or applying gel).
Shrug. You see both plenty, so I don't think there's any real* case to be made that one is definitely correct.
*Read: non-prescriptivist.
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Ugh, I knew someone was going to -1 this just because I had the gall to defend actual linguistics instead of a bunch of prescriptivist poppycock, so here you go, actual evidence.
Google search for "'offensive line' gel": 156,000 results
Google search for "'offensive line' jell": 31,100 results, oh and hey a bunch of them actually use "gel".
So can we now agree that the terms can be used interchangeably? Or do you think that using the word "gel", which means an incredibly similar thing and is definitely more commonly used by sports writers to refer to the process of an offensive line coming together, is somehow misleading?
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Actually 2 people downvoted it ... offset by my +1.