On Sunday, August 3, 2014 4:59:48 PM UTC-4, Janet Wilder wrote:
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> >>>>> the expression is "spit 'n' image".
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> >>>> That's the first time I've ever seen it written that way.
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> >>> Me too, it's always "spitting image" here. We even had a TV show called
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> >>> Spitting Image.
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> >>> Janet UK
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> >> It evolved
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> >> Spitting image is the usual modern form of the idiom meaning exact
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> >> likeness, duplicate, or counterpart. The original phrase was spit and
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> > the original phrase was "spitten image".
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> My OED (Oxford English Dictionary) has 'spit and image'
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> I was an English major, the OED is my bible when it comes to such stuff.

Thank you. I'm not ALWAYS wrong.

I guess it's one of those things like "couldn't care less", and the millennium debate back in 2000. Accept and live with it. I won't even get INTO 'forte'.