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I took Latin for 4 years in HS so I hear what you are saying. But the common usage of 'decimate' has become to kill / destroy a large percentage of ... Kinda like clip / magazine. I know the difference but I understand the usage is largely interchangeable and I don't lose sleep over it.  ---------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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That's my biggest one right there!! Oh and along with people NOT putting the period inside the closed quote. Incorrect: He earned the title "Nancy". Correct: They all called him a "Nancy girl." Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers | |||
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| The Unmanned Writer |
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers | |||
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Diffuse and defuse. You defuse a situation, i.e., prevent it from escalating and (figuratively) exploding. While we're at it, "literally" is often misused. | |||
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Bugs me too. The MSM is one of the worst offenders. Even fiction authors are bad. | |||
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There is a world elsewhere |
volumptuous rather than voluptuous. As in, "I'm a BBW, you know, volumptuous" curves are one thing, lumps are a whole different thing. A well balanced breakfast being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed. | |||
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frustrated = disappointed; thwarted; dissatisfied flustrated = flustered; agitated fusstrated = not a word! | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. |
Example of how "literally" can be misused.  | |||
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Just to name a few... principal/principle aisle/isle versus/verse quite/quiet "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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Border, boarder. __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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titled/entitled ensure/assure/insure | |||
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capital/capitol I have to rethink for myself to decide which one is correct for the situation. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. |
Penultimate is often thought to be somehow better than ultimate, but it just means next to last. | |||
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whats the opposite of flammable? ----------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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Nonflammable? Certainly not inflammable. | |||
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While that was true in the past, "irregardless" is now considered a word, and has been accepted as such by both the Oxford English Dictionary and M-W. ___________________________________________ "He was never hindered by any dogma, except the Constitution." - Ty Ross speaking of his grandfather General Barry Goldwater "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." - William Tecumseh Sherman | |||
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Nukular - not a word, but used by most Presidents and the Press to represent Nuclear, which, according to Pogo, is not so new and not so clear.... "And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day" | |||
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Sorry, but "carrot or stick" can be correct. It means to choose between two different forms of motivation, either reward or punishment. As in, motivating a donkey by offering it a carrot, or beating it with a stick. ___________________________________________ "He was never hindered by any dogma, except the Constitution." - Ty Ross speaking of his grandfather General Barry Goldwater "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." - William Tecumseh Sherman | |||
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Well, whelp, and 'welp." Well, and whelp are actual words, with very different meanings. Well (in the context of comparison and misuse of 'welp') is an interjection, used to indicate resumption of discourse, or to introduce a remark. It is also used to express surprise, or expostulation. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/well Whelp, is a noun, meaning any of the young or carnivorous mammals, and especially of the dog. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whelp Welp, is not a word. Anyone saying it, commonly in place of well as an interjection, sounds ignorant/stupid, and anyone actually typing it out, appears so ignorant/stupid I question how they have are capable of remembering to breathe. It actually is more difficult to type 'welp" than well, because it requires a transition, from the l to the p key, by the ring finger of the right hand, rather than simply doing a double strike of the l key, with the ring of the right hand. ___________________________________________ "He was never hindered by any dogma, except the Constitution." - Ty Ross speaking of his grandfather General Barry Goldwater "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." - William Tecumseh Sherman | |||
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Jibe and jive. One's account of an event either does or does not jibe with what actually happened, not jive. Jive is what you called Barbara Billingsley over to translate. | |||
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