call me stupid but how do you spell this word?

falconx88

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what do you call someone who drives you to places all the time?

shoffer? choffer? cHOOfer?

how do you spell this word?
 

falconx88

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chauffeur

Pronunciation: 'shO-f&r, shO-'
Function: noun
Etymology: French, literally, stoker, from chauffer to heat, from Middle French chaufer -- more at CHAFE
Date: 1899
1 : a person employed to drive a motor vehicle
2 : one that transports others by operating a motor vehicle

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
 

kami

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is it that hard to look in a dictionary or go to dictionary.com? you have to create a thread? :p
 

ChrichtonsGirl

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Danny, are you going through a Valley Girl phase here? :p

Oh, and it's chauffeur.

Edit - Drat, the Spelling Cop spells it wrong.
 

DannyLove

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<< Danny, are you going through a Valley Girl phase here? :p

Oh, and it's chauffer.
>>

i've been saying totally very often. i dont know why. :eek:

danny~~totally
 
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show-fer Showfer is how i'd spell it, best to spell as phoneticly as poscible.


chauffeur
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): chauf·feured; chauf·feur·ing /'shO-f(&amp;-)ri[ng], shO-'f&amp;r-i[ng]/
Date: 1917
intransitive senses : to do the work of a chauffeur
transitive senses
1 : to transport in the manner of a chauffeur <chauffeurs the children to school>
2 : to operate (as an automobile) as chauffeur
 

dopcombo

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hmm... many people missing an extra e in the back.

think its chauffeur the last time i learnt it :p