Word Butchers: You ain’t no jive turkey. You just meant to “jibe”.
I was just trying to figure out the difference between jive and jibe myself.
You’ve got your sailors. And you’ve got your jazz musicians. Each came up with a word that sounds eerily similar to the other. And we’ve been confusing them ever since. Today, let’s put a finger to the wind and set the record straight.
“Jibe” is a sailing term for turning into the wind…