Talk:jibe
Add topic- "Jive" and "jibe" can be used interchangeably in the U.S. to indicate the concept "to agree or accord"; each has been used in that capacity for at least a hundred years stateside. However, "jibe" (or "gibe") is a pure Americanism and is unknown in other English-speaking countries.
This seems wrong to me and Merriam-Webster and Encarta. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=jive doesn't even list the intransitive verb form, and M-W doesn't think "jibe" is American-only, and "gibe" is NOT an alternative spelling of the intransitive verb form, it is only a mocking remark. http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/jive.html likewise. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=jibe offers an English derivation.
I'm deleting it. --Skierpage 11:11, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Below what the Merriman Webster site says, to summarize where things stand. When you ask Bling "What the difference between jibe and jive" it presents a WikiDif answer that is ABSOLUTELY wrong according to everybody! Somebody should change that entry to this one: "Gibe is almost always used to refer to taunts, or to the act of taunting. Jibe may be also used to mean “to taunt,” but it is the only one of the three that should be used to mean “is in accord with” (as in “That doesn’t jibe with what I thought”). Jive is the one of the three that should be used to indicate a manner of speech, or perhaps by swing dancers."