Which do you use: champing/chomping at the bit?

[BigDaddyLH]

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/champ-or-chomp-at-the-bit

There's an interesting tool linked to search for usage over time: Google Ngram viewer.

Another example of that tool: Telecaster versus Stratocaster

 

[telleutelleme]

Chomp. past tense of champ I suppose.

 

[Jakedog]

Chomp.

 

[blowtorch]

Chomping, but I've got a feeling that's technically incorrect

 

[Fretting out]

Chomp

 

[SonicMustang]

Chomp

 

[Engine Swap]

Champ

 

[edvard]

Chomping, but I've got a feeling that's technically incorrect

I agree.

 

[Fenderdad1950]

Sorry I have a dog

 

[1300 E Valencia]

This is like using "butt naked" instead of the correct "buck naked". Like it or not, once everyone starts to use the "wrong" word, sooner or later it becomes the norm.
I blame the school system and the interwebs. Schools no longer teach literacy. The internet encourages the opposite. The result is obvious. Maybe we should go back to the good old days when only the high priests could read and write

 

[HoodieMcFoodie]

For all in tents and porpoises I use champ

 

[sloppychops]

I hate it when people make misteaks with word useage.

 

[RodeoTex]

There was recently an exhaustive discussion of this on Facebook. Turns out that champing is correct, chomping makes sense and probably nobodys mind was changed.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

This is like using "butt naked" instead of the correct "buck naked". Like it or not, once everyone starts to use the "wrong" word, sooner or later it becomes the norm.
I blame the school system and the interwebs. Schools no longer teach literacy. The internet encourages the opposite. The result is obvious. Maybe we should go back to the good old days when only the high priests could read and write

Good old days...schools no longer teach literacy...priests...

Long sigh...

Anyways, when did people start saying “waiting on line” like “we were waiting on line in front of the theater” ?

You wait “in line” or even “in a queue” but “on line” ?

Ain’t never heard tell o’ that before - the inter webs !

That ya got right...

 

[8barlouie]

It’s chomp. It comes from the equestrian world. Probably as old as when horseback and horse buggy was the primary source of transportation. When a horse gets anxious about going somewhere, they want to get the show on the road because they know a trip is coming. Their anxiety comes out as they “chomp at the bit”. The bit being the part of the harness that goes in the horse’s mouth. So when someone is “Chomping at the bit”, it means they’re growing impatient and keen to get things going. Don’t ask me why I knew that. It’s so old I can’t remember when I was taught that. Now, that’s old!

 

[Steve 78]

For all in tents and porpoises I use champ

I think you mean all intensive purposes.

 

[brookdalebill]

I’m a long time chomper.

 

[HoodieMcFoodie]

I think you mean all intensive purposes.

o rly?

 

[tamer_of_banthas]

gotta go with chomping here my bro

 

[darkwaters]

Neither. I say "Rarin' ta go"!